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How to Lose Weight Permanently - in 3 Steps
By Janice Elizabeth Small
For many people losing weight is not so much the problem as
keeping it off. You may find that you have the willpower to stick
with your diet and reach your target weight. But although you
feel great having achieved your goal, somehow the weight
always creeps back on.
The fact is to lose weight permanently you need to make
permanent changes to your lifestyle. After all your lifestyle made
you overweight - so if you don't change that lifestyle you'll get
right back to your overweight state no matter how much weight
you lose.
1. Set your standards
Decide right now to stop putting up with the standards you've
set for yourself so far. Is how you treat your body and how you
spend your time really how you want to live your life? Are you
satisfied with how you are looking after your health? with the
food you eat? with your energy levels?
You don't have to put up with a flabby out-of-condition body,
junk food and lack of physical activity. You can have a life where
you eat delicious nourishing food all the time, where you have
plenty of energy, a sparkle in your eye and a spring in your step
and where you are toned, fit and healthy.
Decide right now to raise your standards and play in a new
league.
2. Squash your limiting beliefs
You may want to change your lifestyle but you'll never succeed
unless you believe you can. Failed diets and abandoned
exercise regimes (and maybe you've had many of those) can
destroy your confidence in being able to make changes. But
actually all you need is the right strategy and anyone can
succeed at making quite far-reaching changes without
backsliding.
If you've not succeeded before you just haven't found a way to
make changes which is right for you. It doesn't mean you can't
ever succeed.
Start by imagining yourself living to your new standards. How
will you look, how will you move and how will you feel? Become
comfortable with these images so that they will feel less and
less foreign to you. The more you use your imagination the more
you start to accept in your subconscious mind that this could be
a realistic future for you and it will give you the motivation you
need to make changes.
3. Make changes stick
We all have a comfort zone which consists of everything that we
are used to in our lives. To make permanent changes that you
are happy to stick with forever you have to expand the things
you are comfortable with.
The problem with standard diet and exercise regimes is that
they ask you to make huge changes all at once - they have you
stepping miles away from your zone of comfort.
If you are happy making drastic changes - go ahead. If you can
stick with it you'll lose weight quickly and permanently.
But chances are you've tried this - probably many times - and
although you start out with great intentions you just can't keep
those changes up. It's no wonder - because they work right
against human nature.
The secret of making changes permanent is to expand your
comfort zone gently. Make one or two small changes and get
used to them before you try and change anything else.
Only you will know the scale of the changes you're happy to
make and how long you'll need before those changes feel like
part of you. Research suggests it needs about 21 days to form a
new habit.
If you create new healthier habits one after the other in this
way, the weight loss will follow automatically. And because you
have become comfortable with each change you will lose that
weight permanently too.
Copyright 2005, Janice Elizabeth Small
About the Author
Janice Elizabeth is a weight loss coach, slimming club owner and author of "The Diet Exit Plan", an 8 week coaching program for automatic permanent weight loss. Request her FREE 15 page report "How to lose weight without dieting - 7 secrets the diet industry doesn't want you to know" at http://www.SimplySlimming.com TODAY!
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