Writing For Your Weight Loss Success
by Dr. Fit, Sidney E. Reeves, CFT
Motivation is one of the key variables for the equation that
yields long term weight loss success. The question is how do
you maintain the motivation to attain the ultimate goal?
Regardless if your weight loss goal is 20 pounds or 100 pounds
you must change your thinking to change your behavior and
writing makes that happen.
Weight loss really does begin in your head. Every successful
athlete understands that his thinking process is either working
for him or against him. The same holds true with weight loss. If
your internal dialogue is negative, your results will eventually
manifest the same result! You can’t degrade yourself to a
healthy new you! You must change your thinking to work for you,
to build your resolve, and to maintain that all important
motivational factor.
Writing is an exercise that will help your mind change its
thinking! It allows you to process the negative emotions and
helps to instill the positive changes. Start with these simple
exercises:
1. The Negative Emotions Daily Dump: Many success coaches
advocate writing out your negative thinking on a daily basis.
Simply spend approximately 15 minutes writing out all the
frustrations, bad feelings, and discouragement. This helps you
to process these bad feelings out of your system so that you
can make room for positive affirmations. Do not reread the
entries and do not keep them. Write it out, and then throw it
out. We call this the Negative Emotions Daily Dump.
2. Affirm Your Goals: Prepare a list of affirmations that will
help your subconscious work with your conscious brain to make
those all important behavioral changes. Then write your
affirmations at least twice a day. Write them once after you
have written your Negative Emotions Daily Dump. Don’t do the
Negative Dump without filling it with the positive
affirmations. You should always end with this. Write the second
set of affirmations either right before you go to bed or first
thing in the morning. Read your affirmations several times a
day.
3. Understand your Motivations: In order to stay motivated you
must understand your real reasons for losing weight. In other
words, understand why YOU want to lose weight. Not why your
spouse or friends want you to lose weight but why losing the
weight is important to you. Do you really want more energy? Do
you just love skinny clothes? Do you want to participate in an
activity that would be easier if you were slim and healthy?
Write these motivations out in detail so that you can solidify
them in your head and they can continue to motivate you through
the entire weight loss journey.
4. Accountability: Keep a food diary. Keeping a food diary has
been proven time and time again to increase your weight loss
success by as much as 50%! A food log is your accountability
factor. It keeps you honest with yourself.
5. Visualize: Visualize yourself enjoying the portions of your
weight loss program that you are currently struggling to do.
For instance if you hate the cardio portion of your day, start
seeing yourself loving it. See it as “”your time”. It can be
your time to read while you’re on the stationary bike. Or your
time to watch all those movies you feel guilty watching any
other time. Once you begin to visualize positive feelings about
a certain activity the easier that activity will become.
6. The Pat-On-The-Back: Keep a written log of your weight loss
success. By writing down your weight loss on a weekly basis you
are validating your efforts and giving yourself a
pat-on-the-back. This will go a long way to keeping you on
track.
Keep in mind that if you are utilizing the assistance of a
personal fitness trainer or weight loss professional that they
may use techniques to help you face your self-defeating habits.
This might feel harsh and negative, however it isn’t. Honesty is
necessary to motivate change and this is different than running
yourself down! Sometimes we have to hear the hard words to make
the hard changes. Keep in mind that these professionals are
seeking your ultimate success. Your success is their success.
Let’s face it, the weight gain started with you and to change
that behavior you may have to deal with some uncomfortable
feelings. A good trainer will help you feel cared about while
still insisting that you deal with your bad habits. It’s a good
thing to be pushed past your comfort zone to becoming a better
you!
Writing is the new “exercise” that can make all the rest of
your weight loss efforts including good nutrition, exercise,
and resistance training work for you because you will be
working with these principles instead of against them. You will
start seeing these weight loss techniques as a positive and
permanent part of your life, instead of a temporary device.
That will result in faster results that last forever!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Fit, Sidney E. Reeves, CFT is a
nationally recognized personal fitness trainer. Dr. Fit has
been helping overweight America understand and change their
self-defeating habits while learning the important elements of
good nutrition, exercise and positive change. He has launched a
website to compliment his daily fitness show at
http://www.WritingForWeightloss.com where members receive all
the tools to lose weight permanently. Join Dr. Fit as your
fitness trainer today at http://WritingForWeightLoss.com
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