Get Your Mind On Your Side

Successful weight loss is more than just eating healthy food and exercising regularly. A very important,  and much overlooked component, is the way you think about weight loss and the way you think about yourself. You can ruin your weight loss efforts if you indulge frequently in negative thoughts and you can increase your chances of success if you frequently practice positive thinking.
Below is a list of common negative thoughts on weight loss, with a list of substitute positive thoughts you can think instead.

Visualize Yourself Succeeding At Weight Loss

A recent study at McGill University reports that the best way to improve your eating habits is to not only create an action plan but to visualize yourself following through. Participants were asked to consume more fruit for one week. One group simply set the goal to eat more fruit. The other group set the same goal, wrote it down and also visualized carrying out the specific steps needed to eat more fruit. For example, they visualized themselves purchasing fruit and eating it at particular times. While both groups ate more fruit, the group that used visualization ate twice as much. This study supports the positive effects of visualization known for years by sport psychologists and peak performers. -Caloriecount.about.com

BELIEVE You Can

Believe You Can

Alice: This is impossible
Mad Hatter: Only if you Believe it is

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Envision A You That You Choose To Be

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. -Joy Page

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Message From My Future Self #2

If your future slimmer self sent you a message with a photo to encourage and motivate you to stick with your weight loss goals what would she/he send?

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Visualise It To Help You Achieve It

If you can dream it...you can achieve it. Visualise this happening with a pair of jeans that are now too tight.

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Visualization For Weight Loss

Creative visualization is the technique of using one's imagination to visualize specific behaviors or events occurring in one's life. Advocates suggest creating a detailed schema of what one desires and then visualizing it over and over again with all of the senses (i.e., what do you see? what do you feel? what do you hear? what does it smell like?). For example, in sports a golfer may visualize the "perfect" stroke over and over again to mentally train muscle memory.

In one of the most well-known studies on Creative Visualization in sports, Russian scientists compared four groups of Olympic athletes in terms of their training schedules:

Group 1 = 100% physical training;
Group 2 - 75% physical training with 25% mental training;
Group 3 - 50% physical training with 50% mental training;
Group 4 - 25% physical training with 75% mental training.
Group 4, with 75% of their time devoted to mental training performed the best. "The Soviets had discovered that mental images can act as a prelude to muscular impulses."

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Its Not Who You Are That Holds You Back (2)

It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think you're not.

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It's Not Who You Are That Holds You Back

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you are not.

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Go Out Walking

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. -Raymond Inmon

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Determination Will Get You There

Wilma Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was born prematurely at 4.5 lbs. , the 20th of 21 other brothers and sisters, and caught infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) as a very young child. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot which had become twisted as a result. By the time she was twelve years old, she had also survived scarlet fever, whooping cough, chickenpox, and measles. She also had to have a leg brace on for three years(6 to 9).
In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games.She was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960. -Source: Wikipedia

What could YOU achieve on your weight loss and fitness journey by developing a greater sense of determination?

Yoga Is A Light

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better you practice, the brighter the flame. B.K.S. Iyengar

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Think Of How Far You've Already Come

Tonight when you lay your head on your pillow, forget how far you've got to go, think instead of how far you've already come.

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Think Positive Thoughts

Think positive thought, because what you think about, you tend to bring about.

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Believe You Can

Believe you can!

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You Know When Something Needs To Change

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What Do You See Inside The Circle?

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Motivation Is Like Food For The Brain

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Every Successful Slimmer...

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When You've Fallen Off The Weight Loss Wagon

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