Last week we learned that in order to change your actions permanently, you have to change your belief system. This week, we're focusing on your thought life.
I tackled 4 things on week #2 of my CD series:
Motivation
Goals and Rewards
Positive Thinking
Mental Conditioning
Wouldn't you agree that losing weight and keeping it off for life is one of the hardest things you've ever done?...so the questions is, how do you prepared for that? This week we are focusing on necessary steps to be successful at not only starting this weight loss journey, but reaching your destination as well!
Motivation:
As I sit with clients week after week, I see a common theme with clients who are not losing weight. They have lost their motivation. Knowing WHY you want to lose weight and keeping those reasons in the fore front of your mind is critical for weight loss success. There are many ways to keep motivation high. What ever those ways are for you, keep doing them! We all have different motives as to why we want to lose weight...the key is to keep motivation alive! Motivation is in the doing! What can you do this week to elevate your motivation?
Goals and Rewards:
Setting goals and rewarding yourself are proven methods in changing your beliefs permanently. Everything we do, we do out of our need to seek pleasure or avoid pain, the problem is,our society believes that over eating is pleasure and eating in moderation is painful. When I've asked clients to speak out words connected to over eating. I hear; guilt, shame, poor health, pain, and tears. When they speak words connected to eating in moderation I hear; happiness, peace, health, clothes fit, and confidence. That is the truth...we just don't believe it!
Linking pleasure(rewards) to your new healthy life style and pain to your old unhealthy habits will begin to change your belief system and help you keep this weight off.
Rewards are a must!
Positive Thinking:
You won't catch me in a conversation with someone about permanent change, without hearing me talk about our thought life! Choosing positive thoughts will promote positive actions! How we think about ourselves has EVERYTHING to do with losing weight and keeping it off. The good news is that we have a choice every minute of every day about our thoughts. This little girl has it figured out...we could learn a thing or two from her.
Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3rKOkZFkg
Mental Conditioning:
This is the first week of your mental conditioning exercises. No great accomplishments have happened without first the visions of them! The subconscious mind is powerful. What ever you force into it on a regular basis, it believes. Adding this piece to your Healthy Weigh program could be a key to your success.
Great effort goes into great accomplishments. I encourage you to spend time this week on your thinking...it will change your life!
Always encouraging you.
Letha
Apr 29, 2011
Apr 22, 2011
Changing Your Beliefs ~ The Key to Permanent Weight Loss
This week at the "ROAD TRIP" Team Challenge we began our 6 week look/listen of my CD series and the processing homework that goes along with it. I am excited about introducing the six personal control guides to you one week at a time. A lot of great classes, workshops and support groups have happen at The Healthy Weigh, but it's your personal reflection that makes the difference in your weight loss journey!
Beginning this weight loss journey by looking backwards is crucial. The beliefs we have regarding ourselves, our relationship with food and so many other things, determine our success with losing weight and more importantly keeping it off. The key to changing in the present is understanding our past.
Sometimes we resist looking at our past because we are afraid that in some way we will be dishonoring our parents. The search for truth, never requires that we dishonor those who raise us. In fact, distorting our memory of those early years through either denial or idealizing is what really dishonors the past, because it makes the past unreal. We must become fearless in our search for the truth, knowing that the truth, truly does set us free. The search for truth is never an excuse to blame or to confront-it's our search, and it's purpose lies within us.
If you've started this journey with us, I want to encourage you to go for it! Don't back away! You'll come away 6 weeks from now with great insight and a positive attitude towards your future.
Being set free is an awesome thing. I hope you'll take the road that leads there.
Email me with questions or thoughts...I'd love to hear from you. You can also comment to this blog. I encourage that as well. letha@healthyweigh.com
Until next week.
Always encouraging you.
Letha
Beginning this weight loss journey by looking backwards is crucial. The beliefs we have regarding ourselves, our relationship with food and so many other things, determine our success with losing weight and more importantly keeping it off. The key to changing in the present is understanding our past.
Sometimes we resist looking at our past because we are afraid that in some way we will be dishonoring our parents. The search for truth, never requires that we dishonor those who raise us. In fact, distorting our memory of those early years through either denial or idealizing is what really dishonors the past, because it makes the past unreal. We must become fearless in our search for the truth, knowing that the truth, truly does set us free. The search for truth is never an excuse to blame or to confront-it's our search, and it's purpose lies within us.
If you've started this journey with us, I want to encourage you to go for it! Don't back away! You'll come away 6 weeks from now with great insight and a positive attitude towards your future.
Being set free is an awesome thing. I hope you'll take the road that leads there.
Email me with questions or thoughts...I'd love to hear from you. You can also comment to this blog. I encourage that as well. letha@healthyweigh.com
Until next week.
Always encouraging you.
Letha
Apr 15, 2011
I Do My BEST On The Weekends!
The weekend is here, the sun is going to shine(positive thinking), spring is upon us...how prepared are you to follow your nutritional plan all weekend long? Have you given any thought to the days ahead and planned your strategy?
Weekends pose different problems than week days. During the week, we have routine and it makes it "routine" to follow program. It seems that we are better prepared with program foods during the week too, out of necessity with our busy schedules.
The weekend rolls around and we have no routine to speak of, and we've run out of the good program foods! That means trouble!
There are a few easy things you can do to make your weekend days as successful or even more successful than the week days.
1. Preplan a menu for the weekend on Thursday night (with contingencies.)
Put the menu up on your fridge to remind yourself that you DO have a plan for the weekend. It helps to have it written down so you are not making so many emotional decisions about what you "feel" like eating.
2. Stop on your way home on Friday night to stock up on the very BEST program foods.
The weekend is the time when we can take more time to make a beautiful breakfast or even a special dinner. Buy the best ingredients and look forward to your meals instead of eating what's left over from the week!
3. Use the extra time to be more active.
If you have time to walk out the front door...do it! Take time on the weekend to go for a walk, a hike or a bike ride with your family. You can burn more calories on the weekend!
4. Above all else (you guessed it) think rightly about the weekend.
Your attitude about weekend foods and weekend activity will make ALL the difference in your success! Try repeating out loud many times a day..."I do my best on the program, on the weekends." See what that does for your thought life!
Your determination to turn hard weekends into opportunities for more weight loss will make a great difference in your weight loss success.
Plan ahead,go shopping and think rightly, then have a terrific on program weekend!
Always encouraging you.
Letha
Weekends pose different problems than week days. During the week, we have routine and it makes it "routine" to follow program. It seems that we are better prepared with program foods during the week too, out of necessity with our busy schedules.
The weekend rolls around and we have no routine to speak of, and we've run out of the good program foods! That means trouble!
There are a few easy things you can do to make your weekend days as successful or even more successful than the week days.
1. Preplan a menu for the weekend on Thursday night (with contingencies.)
Put the menu up on your fridge to remind yourself that you DO have a plan for the weekend. It helps to have it written down so you are not making so many emotional decisions about what you "feel" like eating.
2. Stop on your way home on Friday night to stock up on the very BEST program foods.
The weekend is the time when we can take more time to make a beautiful breakfast or even a special dinner. Buy the best ingredients and look forward to your meals instead of eating what's left over from the week!
3. Use the extra time to be more active.
If you have time to walk out the front door...do it! Take time on the weekend to go for a walk, a hike or a bike ride with your family. You can burn more calories on the weekend!
4. Above all else (you guessed it) think rightly about the weekend.
Your attitude about weekend foods and weekend activity will make ALL the difference in your success! Try repeating out loud many times a day..."I do my best on the program, on the weekends." See what that does for your thought life!
Your determination to turn hard weekends into opportunities for more weight loss will make a great difference in your weight loss success.
Plan ahead,go shopping and think rightly, then have a terrific on program weekend!
Always encouraging you.
Letha
Apr 1, 2011
...But Do They Keep The Weight Off?
As I have been sharing information this week about our outstanding weight loss program, and encouraging new clients to participate in it, I have been asked this question many times over .."But are your clients keeping their weight off?"
I'd love to answer that question here this morning.
I have spent 30 years helping people lose weight. I have watched MANY weight loss programs come and go, some that I believed in more than others. I have watched people lose weight and I have welcomed them back to the program when they have gained their weight back.
After years of experience, I have come to this important conclusion...How you lose weight has little to do with how or why you gain weight back. Losing weight means that you cut calories and ate or consumed less than your body needed to maintain your weight. Gaining it back means you consumed more calories than your body needed to maintain it's self. It's really that simple!
I've also had enough experience to know that how you lose weight has a lot to do with the probability of you making permanent changes because THAT'S how you keep weight off!
The probability of you following a cabbage soup diet for the rest of your life is not real great! The chances that you will continue to eat a healthy balanced diet with all the food groups is very probable. So HOW you chose to lose weight has more to do with the changes that you are making than it does with the temporary DIET that you are following.
More important than the diet you chose to lose weight, is the thinking that you chose to lose weight! Your thoughts will always dictate your actions! So, if you have followed a diet...any diet, and have not changed your thinking about food, about health, about your worthiness to care for yourself, chances are, your unhealthy thinking will cause you to act in a way that will put weight back on.
I am a firm believer that being at GOAL weight is another big key to permanent weight loss. When you are stepping on the scale to monitor your weight, and you've never been happy with the weight you see, you will lack the motivation to stay there. On the other hand, when you step on the scale and see your goal, there will be a different level of motivation to help you keep your weight off for life!
The Healthy Weigh nutritional plan is by far the best weight loss plan I have ever seen. Losing weight on our plan, is guaranteed! Keeping it off, depends on you!
Are you willing to accept the truth about the amount of calories it takes to maintain your body at goal weight? Are you willing to make permanent changes in your thinking so that food is fuel for your body and not your drug of choice? If you can answer yes to these questions, you will keep your weight off for life!
I am proud to offer a program that deals with permanent changes on every level. Permanent change is where it's at...and a lot of that is going on at The Healthy Weigh!
Always encouraging you,
Letha
I'd love to answer that question here this morning.
I have spent 30 years helping people lose weight. I have watched MANY weight loss programs come and go, some that I believed in more than others. I have watched people lose weight and I have welcomed them back to the program when they have gained their weight back.
After years of experience, I have come to this important conclusion...How you lose weight has little to do with how or why you gain weight back. Losing weight means that you cut calories and ate or consumed less than your body needed to maintain your weight. Gaining it back means you consumed more calories than your body needed to maintain it's self. It's really that simple!
I've also had enough experience to know that how you lose weight has a lot to do with the probability of you making permanent changes because THAT'S how you keep weight off!
The probability of you following a cabbage soup diet for the rest of your life is not real great! The chances that you will continue to eat a healthy balanced diet with all the food groups is very probable. So HOW you chose to lose weight has more to do with the changes that you are making than it does with the temporary DIET that you are following.
More important than the diet you chose to lose weight, is the thinking that you chose to lose weight! Your thoughts will always dictate your actions! So, if you have followed a diet...any diet, and have not changed your thinking about food, about health, about your worthiness to care for yourself, chances are, your unhealthy thinking will cause you to act in a way that will put weight back on.
I am a firm believer that being at GOAL weight is another big key to permanent weight loss. When you are stepping on the scale to monitor your weight, and you've never been happy with the weight you see, you will lack the motivation to stay there. On the other hand, when you step on the scale and see your goal, there will be a different level of motivation to help you keep your weight off for life!
The Healthy Weigh nutritional plan is by far the best weight loss plan I have ever seen. Losing weight on our plan, is guaranteed! Keeping it off, depends on you!
Are you willing to accept the truth about the amount of calories it takes to maintain your body at goal weight? Are you willing to make permanent changes in your thinking so that food is fuel for your body and not your drug of choice? If you can answer yes to these questions, you will keep your weight off for life!
I am proud to offer a program that deals with permanent changes on every level. Permanent change is where it's at...and a lot of that is going on at The Healthy Weigh!
Always encouraging you,
Letha
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