Quick weight loss and long term results can be paired together. These few steps lay the foundation for long term weight loss and they are designed to build on each other. Although clients are told that these steps are vital to their short and long term weight loss success I see clients skip or dilute them all the time because they are so simple they often interpret them as tools that can be overlooked. Omitting these steps contributes to clients spinning their wheels when it comes to their quick weight loss at a time when people are struggling to do just the opposite. Inevitably they come back and implement them in to their program and start to lose weight.
I may be sharing with you things that you feel you already know or are obvious. But it is the subtle shifts in the understanding, that you already have all it takes to lose weight, that really allows you to break free from the food. So let it sink in.Great, so lets get started!
Quick Weight Loss Comes Through Learning to Power Talk & Making It Stick
I'm sure you've experienced the wonderful feeling of accomplishment and flow that come along with being on a path of growth. That sense of knowing when everything is working for you and you trust that all is in order, that deep sense of peace and expansion after you learned something new and see it directly impact your life. There are so many incredible blessings and experiences that come along with this type of expansion and the path to weight loss has many of them. I have seen so many clients literally blossom as they start to lose weight. They experience a flow positive understanding that, "yes they can do this", and feel the positive energy that comes along with the sense of empowerment and self accomplishment that shedding their weight overcoming obstacles brings into their life.
I'm sure you have also experienced those wonderful joys where you think you've finally got it all figured out, your in control of your diet and exercise and enjoying the moments and successes and feel that life can finally be fully wonderful now. Maybe there have been times in the past where you have lost weight and experienced some of this but for reasons your not quite in touch with you put the weight back. This e-course will give you the tools not only to lay the foundation for your weight loss but it will give you the tools to experience the joy of a life time of your best body.
So what does knock us down and keep us falling off the wagon? Have you ever been in the groove of being on your diet and it seems like nothing will be able to get you to stray? You feel like, "This is it the last time I will have to lose this weight, I am done with it and watch me go. " Then a "real life" experience comes up and knocks you down, pulls you out of that nice little energized, wonderful place you were just in and stops any forward momentum cold. It can be as simple as your partner disappoints or angers you, you feel frustrated by your not so fulfilling job, your kids woke up cranky and demanding, you feel unappreciated because everyone assumes you'll just do it, you feel deprived when the office birthday cake passes your desk and everyone else is eating it but you and you get angry and say "why can they eat it and I can't" or the pants you thought were going to fit are "oh so tight"...
Whatever it is, it pulls you down into those lower emotions that we all hate to be stuck in. The emotions that can change your mood to reflect anger, sadness, unworthiness, frustration, fear and you head for the feel good comfort of food, any kind as long as it makes you forget how you are feeling at the moment! Although we all have our favorites. [Mine was always chocolate and ice cream]
And as if that's not enough in itself, here comes the illusion that keeps so many weight loss clients stuck. That one thought [whatever that may be for each of us, it could be an issue you have been dealing with for a life time or something more recent. ] that takes whatever you are going through and makes it 10 times worse and causes you to be stuck WAY longer than you need to be. You keep replaying it like a broken record in your head feeling worse and worse.
My issue was that I always felt like I had no time to myself and that I had to do everything or it wouldn't get done right. The result was that I ended up feeling overworked and very under appreciated. But it was my interpretation and my actions that caused this because I was unwilling to not be a perfectionist and give up some control. So instead of asking for help with things like laundry, dishes, vacuuming I did them all myself and then complained how I had to do everything. I felt depleted, unappreciated, disrespected and I ate my frustration. I now have an 80/20 rule and I ask for help. It doesn't have to be perfect, 80% is good enough. It was very freeing. I got unstuck, had less frustration and less turning to food for solace.
Have you ever been trapped in a bad mood but can't put your finger on why? Trapped in your lower emotions, triggered by some external event that seems to have knocked you down and you turned to food to get distracted, feel better or even just to numb yourself? Chemical reactions in our food can act like a drug and give us a feeling of being happier, but it is only temporary and there are other ways of producing those chemicals without turning to food. After these moments when we turn to food after a frustrating experience have you found yourself asking. . .
"Why can't I keep to my diet, what am I doing wrong for me to keep turning to food every time I get upset or tempted? What's wrong with me?
And here you go into a downward spiral. So now, you're not only feeling bad dealing with the actual challenge that came up, you're feeling even worse because you turned to food in the moment and now your thinking that you have screwed up yet again and that's the last thing you really wanted to do! Your thinking that it if you just had some more self control you wouldn't have to be dealing with this again and again! Your feeling pretty bad and your blaming yourself because you haven't "got it right" yet.
You end up feeling disappointed in yourself because of you keep making the same mistakes and keep falling off that diet wagon. It almost makes you want to give up and just live your life in a body your not so thrilled with and just get used to it. Subconsciously we may be thinking, "I'm not good enough. "
We use food in so many aspects of our lives. We use it to celebrate, or compensate to commiserate or any other fill in the blank emotion. Challenges, frustrating issues at work, family, finances or in your relationship or lack of relationship. A deep sense of fear as you try to start something new. There are infinite forms challenges can take. The good news is that we can make this food issue go away by understanding ourselves a little bit better and directing the self talk a whole lot more.
Quick Weight Loss & Your Moment of Frustration
How does this translate into your moment of frustration, when you turn to food or other self sabotaging behaviors like negative self talk. Well, it's how you feel, which for most of us is something we totally by pass or ignore because we don't like feeling what we feel. Many of us never really learned how to deal with our feeling of frustration, sadness, anger, rejection, low self esteem, we just learned how to stuff them down inside of us where they slowly fester. Eventually they fester just below our threshold until BAM!
They let us know they are there with that "Feeling" again. We are uncomfortable with the feeling hanging around us so we turn to food as an outlet as opposed to dealing with the issue at hand. Thus, the consumption of food! You only have two ways of feeling [of course there are different levels of it but on a basic level there are just two] Good or bad. So when you are shrinking down into those feeling after you have turned to food or had something happen that you don't like you are actually end up in a lower emotion [feeling bad]. You end up staying stuck in lower emotions for way too long.
Until eventually, you finally get inspired to try again. I used to feel like this a lot, and I remember when I first started out on my weight loss and wellness path I would feel absolutely incredible for like 2 days [OK, sometimes just 2 hours]. And then I'd crash for 3 days or a week or 2, all the while thinking why I screwed up again.
Today, I want to share with you the first step to stop this self defeating behavior. This step can help you on your journey and help you navigate your way away from these feelings and negative self talk. Life isn't stagnant and your weight loss journey is always going to take you to a higher place. The secret is how you go about embracing the journey that keeps you in the driver's seat.
We can diffuse them all. Break them down into minute pieces that are simple facts rather than emotional time bombs that make us uncomfortable or upset so we reach for the Oreo's or head first fast food drive through. You just have to knowingly use the tools that will work for you rather than against you! This is all part of the journey and you will learn how to recognize the signals and have a tool in place to diffuse the feeling and the action that the feeling causes.
In order for you to enjoy the journey and let go of your constant dance with food you have to learn to step into your best body and best self. You must see and shift what is within you to match that of your vision. My coach challenge to you is that next time you find yourself facing a challenge that threatens to knock you down and have you heading for the food, before you jump into the illusion that you have to use food to deal with it take a moment.
Stop! Look at the challenge. Don't make it all worse by criticizing yourself, or even someone else, eating up your frustration and then beating yourself up about it, again! Try the exercise below to maneuver around the situation. Remember that these tools take some practice but they work when used consistently. Don't discount them because they seem to easy. It is the simplicity that makes them great and effective.
It is so much easier to face any challenge when you have the tools to deal with it. But if you really want to break free and are tired of being stuck, embrace the idea that these tools are here to help you and that you don't have to stay stuck for long at all. When you use them enough they become second nature and infused into your lifestyle, they become effortless.
Quick Weight Loss Step One- Identify Your Triggers, Thoughts & Whys
The thoughts you have about eating don't come out of nowhere although sometimes we would like to think that. There is always a trigger that precedes your thoughts. For example, you go to make dinner and open up the pantry to get a glimpse of the potato chip bag. Seeing the bag is the potato chips is the trigger. You then have a thought like "umm these look good I'll just have a few and pop some chips" into your mouth. Triggers don't automatically lead to eating, though. Your thoughts determine whether or not your actually eat!
5 Types of Triggers to Avoid if You Want Quick Weight Loss
Biological: hunger pangs, thirst, hormonally influenced cravings or other biological process.
Environmental: seeing or smelling food, watching food on TV or a commercial involving food.
Mental: thinking about food [ for example driving home thinking it's about dinner time], imaging eating some wonderful food, having a positive memory of some wonderful food you ate or a negative memory of being hungry or deprived.
Emotional: tension, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, boredom, and other negative emotions also positive emotions, such as happiness or excitement.
Social: being offered food or because you are in a social setting like a party.
Some triggers are obvious and some [like hormonal cravings that trigger that leads to chocolate coveting] are not. Although not critical it is helpful to be able to predict what's a likely trigger that leads you to eat so you can minimize your exposure, especially in the beginning of your diet. No matter what the trigger in your going to follow the same sequence of events to resist giving in to food your not supposed to eat.
Quick Weight Loss Step Two
Learn to Power Talk: Confusion between hunger and desire to eat: Unsuccessful Dieter: I just ate dinner but I am starving! I am going to go have a snack. Successful Dieter: I'm not hungry; I'm just having a craving. I don't need those cookies.
Intolerance of hunger: Unsuccessful Dieters: I can't stand being hungry, Successful Dieter: Hunger is mildly uncomfortable, but I can tolerate it. It will go away if I focus on something else.
Desire for being over full: Unsuccessful Dieter: If I eat a lot,I'll be more satisfied and won't run the risk of getting hungry. Successful Dieter: It's OK if I get hungry. I'd rather get a little hungry and stay thinner than eat a lot and gain weight.
Self Deception: Unsuccessful Dieter: It doesn't really matter if I eat this extra food. Successful Dieter: It does matter. If I eat it, I'll strengthen the habit of giving in, which will make it more likely that I will give in again the next time. I want to strengthen my 'NO' muscle!
Eating as an emotional coping strategy: Unsuccessful Dieter: I'm upset, if I eat I will feel better. I deserve to indulge myself. Successful Dieter: If I eat, I'll have 2 problems: the one that upset me in the first place and the one that will make me feel bad about myself. I'm going to be very sorry in a little while if I give in and eat this.
What makes a trigger powerful is how we think about it. We sabotage ourselves with thoughts that serve the food literally instead of ourselves. There are some unique differences between how unsuccessful dieters think compared with those who are weight loss successes. Both experience the same types of triggers, but unsuccessful dieters have certain characteristics and ways of thinking that can lead to failure, as illustrated in the chart below. Start to open your mind to the thoughts below and be conscious of how you are thinking when it comes to your feelings and foods over the next few days. Write them down if you feel it will help.
As a weight loss coach, coaching clients that are looking for a better way to live, I encourage you to see yourself in the highest way possible and let go of all self-criticism. Embrace the truth that these challenges are a part of life and are sometimes a way of getting us to look within and shift something there. This outlook builds such a profound sense of trust in yourself and the process of life at such a deep level you have no choice but to see how strong your really are and how with the right tools you can let go of the frustrations and issues causing you to turn to food and embrace your best self.
You know that you can handle any challenge. You know that you will never stay stuck for long. Are you feeling like you have been too down on yourself for what not being able to lose the weight you want to? You will find a meditation that can give you a glimpse and feeling what your best body vision may look like and feel like for you at our site. In order for you to get to the goal you desire, you need to know where you are going. Use this meditation to help you get an idea of what you want your body to look and feel like. Its a great starting point use these tips when getting ont track for quick weight loss.
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