As a weight loss therapist, I always focus on what is effective and actually works to help people achieve their weight loss goals. So when I set out to create some brand new weight loss therapies. I wanted to create something which would actively promote easy and long-term weight loss. I decided to look at the bigger picture and focus on those who lost weight easily and kept it off. This would not be not short-term weight loss where people would lose a few pounds and put it back on in a month.
I first noticed that my most successful weight loss clients were the ones who made small lasting changes. These clients saw the changes as a new lifestyle and not just a temporary fix or going on a diet. They were the people who wanted to change their lives and not just drop a few pounds before they went on holiday.
Quite simply they did not see weight loss as a quick fix but approached it with a view to making a long-term and lasting change.
So I set about writing this brand new weight loss system based on my most successful client's experiences that had lost weight after visiting me. What I discovered was quite incredible and had a lasting effect, but not only on my clients but also on myself!!
You see as I was researching and writing these new therapies I noticed that every day I was starting to change my own lifestyle and without making any effort I was starting to losing weight!!
I certainly was not dieting nor did I join the gym!! I was not even thinking about it consciously. The changes just came naturally and everyone was starting to notice how different I was looking. People were commenting on how much weight I had lost.
So checking the scales I was surprised to find out that I had lost half a stone in 2 weeks and it stayed off!! I was shocked as I was not even trying to lose weight, just living my life by these new lifestyle changes.
Then it occurred to me, as I was creating and reading these new therapies back to myself I had started to change my own thoughts and beliefs. These new beliefs helped make all of these unconscious changes to my own lifestyle. I realised that there was even more to long-term weight loss than I had considered. It was not just about food or exercise, it was about the way we thought and lived. My whole lifestyle changed almost overnight.
Suddenly it became clear why so many people were not able to lose weight or had lost weight and could not keep it off. They were holding the wrong thoughts about themselves and the whole idea of staying thin. It did not have to be painful or involve sweating in the gym. All I was doing was a daily walk and just making sure that I was staying active.
As I lost more weight I could see that it actually had less to do with food and exercise and a lot more to do with the thoughts I was holding. As we always make the changes to our thoughts first, you have to lose weight in your mind before you lose it in your body. The new therapies I was creating helped me to focus on several key areas of my life that I had not thought about for a while.
As I continued my work and research I realised that I had more and more energy and motivation to go out and do different things and achieve more. I was enthused to live a new lifestyle and I really wanted to stick to it.
Within a month I had lost over a stone!!
I was amazed as I had not been hungry, dieted or still set foot in a gym. All of the smaller changes that I had made to my mindset had set me off on a new path. I just wanted to live a healthy lifestyle now.
But here was the real surprise I maintained my new healthier weight and none of it went back on, I just stayed the same. I felt as though I had discovered some real long-term secrets to weight loss.
2. So what were the changes I made and how did it happen?
Ok first let me ask you a really important question about weight loss.
What is the same thing about every attempt you have ever made to lose weight and keep the weight off?
Is it Food? No, as we try fad diets
Is it Drink? No,
Is it Exercise? No, again we attempt the latest exercise craze time and time again and then give up.
I will tell you. The same thing about every diet and weight loss regime you have ever undertaken is…….YOU.
There is really only one reason why you have not made the permanent changes to your life that you would have liked. That reason is you, as you are still making the wrong choices and not living the correct lifestyle.
To make the changes, first, you have to change your unconscious beliefs about who you are, what you believe and how you can live every day.
It has to become a naturally unconscious way of life to lose weight, stay healthy and anyone can do it!!
Just imagine it like this. If you were attempting to learn a whole new language such as French and you decided to only spend 1 hour a week studying it. How long do you think it would take you to become fluent and conversational? It would most likely take you a very long time and you would struggle to master it. But what if you actually went and lived in France, where you immersed yourself in the culture and lifestyle and everyone around spoke French. You would learn the language quicker and retain your ability to speak it as you were doing it every day.
The secret to long-term weight loss is the same as learning a new language. It is not something you practise, it is something you live. You have to immerse yourself in the lifestyle of a thinner and healthier person.
The truth of the matter is that anyone at any age can lose weight this way and keep it off. You just need to start living a different life and holding some new beliefs and thoughts about food and being active. But most of all you need to create and hold onto some new thoughts and beliefs around yourself.
These changes are not something that you can get from a weight loss club, attending the gym or just stopping eating your favourite foods for 8 weeks.
These changes have to be made in the mind and affect every area of your life.
This is something that will stay with you and enable you to feel great about yourself and who you are. It will help you build a positive body image and keep motivated. This will enable you to live a completely new lifestyle.
Now you may have noticed how I keep stressing the word lifestyle that is because going on a diet does not work!!!!! Diets can provide you with a quick fix and you may lose some weight, but you will then find this weight will quickly go back on, the minute you stop dieting or attending the gym.
In order to really be successful with your long-term weight loss, you need to make permanent changes. These changes you need to make are just very small ones, which will help you obtain you your longer-term goals.
It works the same as the aeroplane theory. If you were an aeroplane starting out on a journey, if you changed your course by 1 degree at the start you would end up in a totally different part of the world.
So you only have to make a handful of small changes to your life to end up at your ideal weight and stay that way forever.
3. So what stops us from losing weight?
Unfortunately, we do!!! We are always the cause of all of our own issues, as we are in control of the choices and actions we take, we just choose to take the wrong ones.
Over the years we have programmed ourselves to do the wrong things, we tell ourselves the wrong stories and then we act upon them.
Have you ever noticed how an old belief or idea used to stop you doing something until you were told differently and then found that you could achieve what you wanted to? None of us gave up on talking or walking at an early age, did we? No, we gained a new belief that we could do it and suddenly our world changed.
You have to change the unconscious beliefs about who you are, what you believe and how you can live your life every day.
So after seeing the changes that my most successful weight loss client’s had made, I broke it down into 4 unconscious core principles. Then taking these core principles I devised 4 simple weight loss therapy sessions that help you to change your 4 principle unconscious principles and thoughts about losing weight.
4. The 4 unconscious principles that help us lose weight
Session 1: How you see yourself and your goals
Session 2: Making empowered choices every day
Session 3: Overcoming old beliefs and obtaining new thoughts
Session 4: Balancing and maintaining your new lifestyle
When you have these 4 unconscious principle beliefs working for you, you will find that you can start to live that healthy balanced new lifestyle. But the changes have to be lasting and permanent, which is why you need to be living them consciously and unconsciously.
This is why those people who are unable to lose weight and attempt yo-yo dieting and fads make no long-term changes to their health and weight. They are not living the life of a thinner healthier person.
It does not actually matter what age you are or what your current weight is, making these changes will set you off on a new path that will give you the results that you want.
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