The last article I posted explained about how weight loss is always the by-product to something else, something within our body that isn’t healthy, happy or just quite right. I want to further that, take it to the next step, because there’s another piece in the puzzle to weight loss that so many people ultimately are left feeling like a failure through. Once you have analysed your lifestyle, your health, your body and your emotional wellbeing to see what may be the ‘products’ that are causing the ‘by-product’ of weight gain, then the way you choose to go about changing these is so important, in fact more important than the actual changes themselves. The human mind is of such a vast complexity that it’s impossible to ever really understand everything about what it is capable of. This said, it has been proven beyond doubt that what we focus on is what we create. Our mind will analyse, want and crave what our thoughts are made up of. This little insignificant piece of science is what needs to create our path for achieving anything we want in life. Focus on something, bring it into the forefront of your mind, keep it there and that’s the direction you will take in life, for as long as those thoughts are your focus – be it career, fitness, sport, family or lifestyle. On top of this, we are driven by reward, and make one of two subconscious decisions – to gain pleasure or avoid pain. In decision making we are always drawn to the option that will give us pleasure or avoid us pain. If we apply this to weight loss, why then do we make the decision to lose weight by focusing on cutting out sugar, reducing saturated fats, halving our portion sizes, banning all takeaways and desserts, and all in the attempt to perfect our eating plan so we can lose weight? Through the way I have just explained the human mind, firstly we are drawn to what we focus on, and secondly we want to gain pleasure or avoid pain – all through rewards. Let’s say you make a choice to remove all refined and unnecessary sugar from your diet, which is a great idea for optimum health yes, but if every time you prepare food you are focusing on having no sugar in that meal, then your cravings and desire to have sugar are going to continually build until it becomes impossible to avoid. On top of this, where is the reward? You have removed the part from your diet that you associated as the reward and haven’t replaced it with anything. Remember we are driven by rewards and pleasure, if there is no reward or no pleasure gained then it makes it incredibly tough to stick with it, and no matter how strong your willpower is you will eventually at some point not be able to maintain that strict plan for long. This will lead to you consuming an excessive amount of sugar laden foods and then leave you with feelings of being a failure and not being good enough. What do I recommend? Create the changes so you focus on what you WANT, make sure it gains you PLEASURE, it AVOIDS pain, and is driven by a REWARD. It really is simple. Work with the human mind and you will always succeed. Work against the human mind and your will power to succeed will be pushed beyond its limits. It is impossible for me write here what these changes are you need to make for weight loss, because everybody is on a different journey in life, everybody has different factors that are making them gain weight or stopping them losing weight. There is no one box fits all. There never is, there never has been and there never will be. It is impossible for me to go into much more detail without making this article a novel. In my online nutrition and exercise programme I do take you through steps of changing your eating patterns and making your lifestyle healthy by working on the principals I have outlined – I never ask you to ban foods, I simple show you how to increase the goodness in your diet. Fill your body with healthy foods and fuel your body in a healthy way, rather than remove the unhealthy foods. Focusing on health and goodness gains you pleasure, avoids you pain and rewards your body. You will be surprised at how much difference this makes to you. That’s all from me today, all I want from writing this is to know I may have directed someone on to a healthier and happier path to achieving their goals. If that is you, than I thank you for reading this! If you want some more direction and guidance on how to go about a healthy eating plan in a positive way then feel free to check out my 6 week programme. You can download it through my website www.bodyessence.co.nz/6-week-programme Take care, live life and love lots! Kerri x
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