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.

Ask Better Questions And You'll Get Better Answers

Here are 10 questions that will empower you on your weight loss and fitness journey:

1. How will my life improve if I exercise 5 days a week?
2. What actions can I take this week to cultivate a healthier lifestyle?
3. What do I find exciting about physical exercise?
4. What should I eat to ensure I reach my 2 lbs weight loss goal this week?
5. How am I going to make today totally awesome?
6. What am I really looking forward to about losing weight this month?
7. What do I love about the way my body is changing?
8. What positive thing can I learn from that mistake today?
9. What are some of my best achievements so far?
10. What is the most important action I can take next to achieve my goal weight?

What empowering questions can you add to this list?

Act As If You're Already The Person You Want To Become

Pretend you are already the person you want to become. If you were already the fitter you with a toned, healthy body and at your goal weight, what would be different about your day? What would your meals look like? How would you feel about exercise and what type of exercise would you do? 

Take these actions NOW.

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

Your Imagination Is Powerful

Visualize how you will look and feel when you have lost all the extra weight. Choose an outfit that you would like to wear but is now too small and hang it somewhere in your home where you will see it frequently. Each time you look at that item tell yourself, "I can see myself wearing that and I can see it fitting perfectly". As you say those words imagine that this is the truth - imagine this item of clothing fitting you perfectly. Do this regularly. Your mind plays a BIG part in your weight loss. What you think about and what you say to yourself about your ability to lose weight will have an effect on your motivation....so think and believe you can do it, and you're half way there.

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You Are What You Think

Think fit, Think Positive, Think Healthy

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Tell Yourself You Can Lose Weight

Everyday tell yourself "I Can Lose Weight"...because You Can.

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BELIEVE You Can

Believe You Can

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

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Try the TRY-Angle

The best angle from which to approach any problem is from the TRY-angle.

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Focus On One Goal At A Time

Don't tackle too many fitness and weight loss goals at once, or you are likely to go off track. Focus on one or two until you have mastered them, then move on to the next ones on your list. As well as not focusing on two many, make sure the ones you do focus on are not too challenging, slow and steady, a marathon not a sprint will get you there eventually.

CHANGE

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by CHANGE.

Have Only Positive Expectations

Have only positive expectations

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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

This image is from my latest new blog...i-quotations.blogspot.com

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I Think I Can

Message From My Future Self 3

The words to today's 'Message From My Future Self' were submitted by diaryofafattyy.tumblr.com

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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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Focus On Where You Want To Go

Focus on where you want to go, not on where you fear to be.

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Conceive It, Believe It, Achieve It

The body cannot achieve what the mind cannot conceive.

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To Look Forward To Special Occasions

Think of a forthcoming special occasion and how you would like to look and feel. Focus on this mental image and great-future-feeling daily, make it clear in your mind, then do everything in your power to make it your reality.

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Think Differently About Weight Loss Plateaus

When you get to a plateau, think of it as a landing on the stairway to your goal. And maintenance is a lifelong plateau, so a bit of "rehearsal" for maintenance isn't the worst thing in the world.

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