To lose weight you have to change how you think! If you do not change how you think, you will not lose weight and maintain your weight loss.

In the Halifax Today Local News I read a very interesting article, “Women spend 31 yearson a Diet ” or an average of six months a year on a diet. One of ten British women were trying to lose weight and 21% consider themselves to be permanent dieters. This is the week than 75% of dieting women give up their dream of weight loss.

The average diet only lasts 5.48 weeks. Post Christmas diets only last three weeks.

Trying to lose weight by dieting is a form of “messing up”. Why? Dieting is doomed to fail as indicated in my blog, “Don’r Risk Your Unconscious Mind Deleting Your Weight Loss”.

The article in the Halifax Today Local News documented why dieting fails. 50% of “slimmers” gave up because of a lack of will power. 25% of the “slimmers” gave up, because dieting made them “depressed or moody”.

Dieting creates deprivation. What I wrote about in my blog, “Motivations that Create Deprivations” regarding permanently stopping smoking also applies to being permanently thin.

There is a myth about will power. Will power is not necessary for weight loss. Will power is only necessary, because people do not change their overweight thinking. People are overweight, because of their overweight thinking triggers behaviors consistent with being overweight. People need will power to fight against the mind’s overweight thinking. Overweight thinking will always win over will power. Replace overweight thinking with thin thinking, and the need for will power diminishes.

Depression and moodiness are the psychological results of deprivation thinking. No matter what you are deprived of such as a relationship, for example, the psychological results of deprivation are depression, moodiness, anger, anxiety and other disturbing emotions. Fulfilling thinking needs to replace deprivation thinking for permanent weight loss.

Deprivation thinking creates failure. Deprivation thinking actually increases the urge for over-eating. The unconscious and conscious mind are motivated to correct a state of deprivation.

Dr. Hyman discovered in reviewing research that genetically we will be motivated to gain and keep weight gains, when people are in deprivation or starvation conditions.

NeelimaP of Healthy B.P.M. composed a recent article, Avoiding the word “DIET”. She wrote, “When you limit yourself, you are inviting unhappiness”.

In the American Chronicle Elwin Sherman had an interesting title, “Live until you DIET—How to Lose Weight by Downsizing ther D-Word”. His first rule for weight loss is never to say the D-word. He wrote “The D-Word is a prescription for failure”.

If you want to lose and maintain weight loss, don’t even think the D-Word.

Remember, You Live within the Body and Environment Created by Your Choices!

Dr. Hal
Life and Mental Fitness Coach

Article Source: http://www.dietarticles.info

Dr. Hal is a Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years of experience, helping people make new choices in their lives. His interest has been and mental fitness. His website is: North Star Mental Fitness Blog. He has created The North Star Mental Fitness Program and written an e-book, I Live within the Environment Created by My Choices. Dr. Hal coaches people to have the mental strength to actualize themselves and thereby solve the problems in their lives.




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