Thursday 30 April 2009

Loving Yourself Without Weight Loss

Being overweight is something that many of us suffer from. You are not alone. Whether you have a little bit of puppy fat or physically obese both your body and mind are affected.

Whilst losing weight is something that should be done from a health point of view often people want to lose weight because it will help their self esteem. The thing that most don’t understand is that your self esteem comes from what you think about yourself, not what others think.

In everyday life we are greeted with pictures of stick thin models and gorgeous glamorous actors and actresses. This can make us feel inadequate and unattractive. We often find ourselves delighted when we see in magazines pictures of stars without make up and think to yourself “wow, she looks bad without her slap on just like I do!”

In this article I am going to walk you through a simple technique you can use to make yourself feel much more attractive and confident as a person. Whilst it does not take away the fact that being overweight is unhealthy it can help you to feel more comfortable in your body.

I want you to go and stand in front of mirror. What you are going to do is reprogram your mind to associate your reflection with positive feelings. Very soon you will be able to stand in front of the mirror and feel great rather than feeling down about your appearance.

I want you to think back to a time when you felt really good about yourself. It doesn’t have to be about the way you look. It might have been a job you did well, a compliment you received. Anything which gives you that self satisfying glow in your stomach.

Close your eyes and think of that moment. Really remember just how proud of yourself you felt. Remember that inner confidence. If it was from a compliment someone paid you remember their sincerity. Feel that glow and move it up from your stomach to your eyes. Feel the glow behind your closed eyes and smile to yourself remembering that moment.

When you start to feel as strongly as possible open your eyes. See yourself as other people would have seen you when you had done that great job or got that great compliment. See yourself with respect and admiration. Keep smiling at yourself and notice the confidence in your eyes.

When you really feel great squeeze together your thumb and forefinger. This will create an emotional connection between the way you feel at that moment and your reflection.

I want you to practice this every day for a month. Every single day. It takes a matter of minutes and doesn’t cost you a penny. Over a period of time you will start to notice a dramatic change in yourself. You will notice that you have more confidence when you look in the mirror. Your self esteem will grow and very quickly you’ll not worry about your weight as much as you have done before.

It is very important you understand that this technique is not to replace your diet program. This is merely a way for you to start to feel better about yourself. As I have said often people want to desperately lose weight because it will make them feel more confident. By using this technique you can become more confident in the way you look within one month. Couple this with a diet program that works and your results will be both visible and internal resulting in a new, improved you.

Feeling down and depressed about yourself can result in comfort eating. This, of course, can only end up with you putting on more weight and the vicious circle continues. Use this technique to develop the right mental toughness and attitude. And use your dieting to get into great shape.

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Tuesday 28 April 2009

Trying out the system

Well I have been making great progress using the systems described in my last article and the middle finger/thumb technique. I have this picture of me in my leather trousers (gorgeous and much too small for me) and it really stops me slipping. I use it every time I am tempted to cheat or give in or whatever and it does really work, so give it a try.

I have also been using my acai berry for the past couple of weeks and I can see that is making a really noticeable difference, so that too is speeding me on and I am starting to see the difference. I am keeping away from the scales - I have learnt from experience that they do not necessarily mirror the results, my clothes show me much better and I can feel the loss of fat round my midriff.

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Monday 27 April 2009

How To Starve Yourself Of Negative Diet Patterns

The power of the mind has been well known to successful and fulfilled people for centuries. Experts of the sub conscious mind such as hypnotists have come up with ingenious ways that bypass the conscious mind and speak directly to the sub conscious. Often hypnosis is used to help people achieve their weight loss goals. In this article I will show you how to do that without any fancy hypnotist or high fees.

The sub conscious mind is the most powerful force in any human being. When you first learned to drive you had to think about every single thing to keep that car driving in the way you wanted to. Gears, mirrors, indicators, steering and many other factors were constantly thought about. After a while though all of these become a habit. You repeat them so many times that your conscious mind no longer has to think about them. Your sub conscious runs you on auto pilot to carry out the manoeuvres.

So what does this have to do with weight loss? Well by using a concept called "auto suggestion" you can help your sub conscious mind "reprogram" yourself to stick to diets, eat healthier foods, enjoy working out (seriously) and much more.

The reason so many people fail to lose weight is because they program themselves for failure each and every time they try a new diet. Because of bad experiences with shoddy diet programs in thepast they often tell themselves "This won't work for me" and give up a few weeks in. Think about whenever you've tried to diet in the past. How long did you stick at? Probably not long enough if you're honest with yourself.

The technique I am going to teach you now will enable you to starve yourself of these negative thought patterns that you are constantly bombarding your sub conscious mind with. It will retrain you to be more positive about your weight loss and in turn develop a thick skin that won't give up whenever a diet doesn't show instant and massive results.

Your emotions and thoughts are like signals. Whenever you feel bad about weight loss or dieting and have thoughts such as "I'm always going to be overweight" stop what you're doing and follow these steps.

Step One. Think about what it is that makes you feel you'll always be overweight. You'll get an image come into your mind. Maybe it's of you feeling down about a diet or you in the future and you haven't lost any weight.

Step Two. Pay attention to this image. This is your unconscious telling you what thought is holding you back in your quest for dieting. This is the image that you consistently put into your subconscious. You have programmed yourself to think this way and that's why it is so easy to give up on diets when things get a little tough

Step Three. Drain all the colour out of the image. Shrink it and move it into the distance. If it happens to reappear repeat the process. Drain it, shrink it and put it into the distance.

Step Four. Replace the image with an image of what you really want to be like. Fit, healthy and at your perfect weight. Get emotionally involved with the image. Think of how great it would feel to have lost all the weight you want to. Make it full colour and bring it closer to you.

Step Five. Hold your thumb and middle fingers together when you feel that rush of excitement about the new future you.

Whilst this may all sound a little crazy, this a very cool technique for programming your sub conscious. If you do this every time you feel a little down about weight loss or have any negative thoughts soon it will become a habit.

Eventually you will have created "a mind anchor" so that you can press your thumb and middle fingers together and get the rush of excitement about your new, slim self. Any time you feel negative about weight loss you put your fingers together and your sub conscious will recognise this habit and use it to your advantage.

Ok. I do understand that this may seem a little "out there" but this is based on the science of Neuro Linguistic Programming. This is not some pie in the sky idea thought up by a lunatic. It is based on the science of the mind and it works in reprogramming yourself. Give it a go and stick at it!

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I was sat here this afternoon thinking about the first time I lost weight. After my third child, I piled on the pounds - whilst I had never been really skinny, this was a shock to me.

First of all I tried a diet out of a magazine but after a few days, I woke up one night feeling really sick. I had to get out of bed and when I went downstairs, I realised that I felt hungry and I heated a little warm milk and forced it down. As this made me feel a little more human, I fried and egg and made some toast - hey I felt great then and went back to bed.

Next morning I told my husband who told me not to do any more dieting - this made me upset, I needed to lose weight. In the end he relented and asked me to do it 'his' way. Every night I put my evening meal out and then took a spoonful off, after a few nights I took 2 spoonfuls off - that continued until my meal fitted on a small plate - I ended up losing 2 stone with this technique.

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Sunday 26 April 2009

How to Shed the Pounds Without Changing your Lifestyle

Have you tried a number of diets and failed? Maybe even tried some exercise only to find you lose a little weight but it comes straight back again? Well don't worry. There's a reason for thatand in this article I'll explain why it happens, and how to combat it.Stress it not just a mental reaction but a physical condition. When placed under stress your body will produce adrenaline but it also produces a hormone called Cortisol. This hormone is responsible forpumping energy in the form of sugar into the body to fuel the adrenalin rush. Stress is then a natural bodily function designed to help keep us alive and reactive to things going on in the world.Unfortunately there is then a negative by-product if you are not using this energy. Stress in the modern world often takes the form of money worries, issues in the office, family problems and much more. The extra blood sugar that is being released has nowhere toto except settle around your stomach to be used later. As fat.Because of this many people are keeping or gaining weight without even realising it. Of course, there are other factors, but stress is one that very few people talk about. Stress however needs to becontrolled and fought against such as an unhealthy diet needs to be. It may be the one thing stopping you from losing the pounds you so desperately want to.Stress and anxiety is in fact a double edged sword. Not only does it produce the excess blood sugars that turn to fat but it also encourages you to use food as a comfort tool. You may tuck intochocolate or fast food for that instant hit that is the culinary equivalent of a warm hug from a loved one.Eating these foods that are bad for you when you are stressed does not mean you are weak minded. You are just following your biological programming. Tests on rats have shown that under stressorganisms naturally engage in pleasure seeking behaviour. In particular high calorie food.Other tests have shown that men who only manage to get four hours sleep a night have on average a thirty seven percent higher level of Cortisol (the hormone that is responsible for energy - sugar)that those who get a full eight hours? And what is one of the biggest reasons for lack of sleep? Stress!On top of that it is imperative you get a good nights sleep when trying to shed the pounds because a deep sleep leads to higher secretions of a natural occurring hormone called Human Growth Hormone. This protects your muscle mass and it is muscle that helps to maintain a steady burning metabolism. We're not talking bodybuilder type muscle here either. Just the natural kind we allhave.Of course if you are already stressed the chances are you are not getting enough sleep already and so are caught in a vicious circle that is affecting your weight loss. Going to your doctors to askabout prescriptive sleeping tablets is one option, but should be used alongside a healthy lifestyle not in place of one. Fortunately, despite stress being the silent diet killer, there are some easy ways to fight it.Firstly with a little bit of exercise you can help yourself get an easier nights sleep which kills two birds with one stone. Just a brisk walk every day will be enough for your body to fall to sleepnaturally at the end of the day.A good breakfast is also associated with reduced stress levels. Skipping breakfast is just asking for trouble and will actually have a negative effect on your weight loss. You need to eatbreakfast to fuel your energy resources. This will also manage your Cortisol levels. Cereal is especially good at thisFish, although not to everyone's liking, is another food that should be added to your diet to reduce stress and therefore help weight loss. Oily fish particularly are high in Omega 3. A tin ofboneless sardines costs little and is delicious on toast. This alone contains a week’s worth of Omega 3 which is great for your diet plan.Finally learn to accept stress and use it. In other words make stress work for you. We all need a little stress to keep us on our toes and in this day and age it is everywhere. The trick is to putthings into perspective and ask yourself "Are things really that bad?". There are sick children and sadness across the world and often we let every day things stress us out needlessly. Remember,combating stress with a healthy diet could just be the miracle weight loss plan you've been looking for.

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Starting this Blog

Hello everyone, my name is Barbara and I have been promising myself I would do this for years!

I now have more time to do the things I want to do which is great.

All my life I have had to battle against gaining weight, I am not huge but I easily could be. I have always tried to be careful with what I eat and that has enabled me to keep my weight reasonably under control most of the time. However this has not been easy and sometimes I have failed miserably.

I have tried lost of different methods and researched lots of products and I now have quite a lot of information on weight loss in my head. Therefore, I am now going to write about things I have learned in the hope that others will be helped.

Currently, I need to lose weight - I can't get around too well because of a bad hip, so exercise is very difficult and I just got into the old habit of eating just a little bit more than I needed because I was enjoying it too much. Now hardly any of my clothes fit and I need to take action again!

Hopefully this blog will help some of you and hopefully also me!
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