How Do You Change Your Mindset to Lose Weight?
We all know that ways to lose weight include clean eating, exercise and consistency.
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about the subconscious?
If we don’t like exercise or have limiting beliefs that we can achieve the weight that we desire, “The voice of self-doubt and insecurity can be loud, persistent, discouraging and even destructive to our efforts.” As said by Sean G. Connolly, PhD on the Obesity Action Community Website.
According to public speaker Brian Tracy, “the function of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data.” Its job is to ensure that you respond exactly the way you are programmed. If you would like to build a weight loss mindset, you’ll need to do more than just work out or change your diet.
Here are some tips for what we believe the winning formula to be for weight loss:
1) Drink Water
The best result to lose weight while drinking water is taking in about 17oz of water a day. This amount causes the body to burn calories for at least an hour. It’s also strategic to drink water before a meal when the goal is to lose weight. Drinking water before a meal prevents overeating and reduces appetite. Drinking water also prevents dehydration.
2) Movement and Exercise
There are many benefits of movement/exercise besides weight loss. Not only are you losing weight, you are changing your brain chemicals and regaining body strength. Movement and exercise reduces stress levels and help you maintain a healthy body weight.
3) Alter Your Eating Habits and Integrate Veggies
Sometimes we, ourselves are not aware of the habits we create that may have affected our body health. These unhealthy habits have consequences. Some unhealthy habits include: overeating without being aware of it, choosing sugar as opposed to veggies, and eating too quickly. Creating a healthy eating habit of slowing down and processing what you take in as food will build the habits that results in weight loss, not only that; a better lifestyle.
4) Eat Clean and Avoid Processed Foods
It is important to understand how processed food is made and how it can affect what we want to eat. During the journey of weight loss, avoiding processed food from fast food chains is best due to its added sugars, fats and high calories. It also creates addictive-like eating. It’s made to make you crave more of it. Processed food is not good for you and will not help with your weight loss, so avoid it.
5) Re-Program Your Subconscious
Your subconscious controls 92% or more of your actions. What this means is that for some of us, we are not in control of our eating habits! We try going on a diet, then we stop being on the diet before we see results. We know sugar and processed foods are bad for us, but we can’t stop. We were told that we were fat all of our lives and we can’t shake that belief! Ways to re-write your subconscious include visualizations, writing affirmations and listening to subliminal or hypnosis audios.
6) Thoughts / Mindset
Your thoughts and mindset are probably the most important part of helping you during your weight loss journey, because you are your own motivator to succeeding this goal. Keeping a positive and realistic perspective will keep you on track and moving forward. Believe in yourself!
If you’re considering hypnosis, we invite you to listen to our Rapid Weight Loss audio as well as Confidence Booster by Miracle Mentor and Alchemy Life Coach, Robert Zink.
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