Weight Loss Journey Intro

Get rid of the idea of losing weight. When you lose something your conditioned way of thinking tries to get it back. Instead, see your body in its most healthy and most favorable state. Begin to love your body each time you look into the mirror. Instead of giving energy to ideas of being overweight or out of shape, get ideas of your ideal body and the power locked up within your body. When you do so you change your self image. This causes your habitual way of thinking to change. When your thinking changes you begin to feel differently. When you begin to feel differently, you begin to act differently. In other words, your thoughts cause your feelings and your feelings cause your actions. The reason you have been gaining the weight back is because your are attempting to directly change your actions without addressing your feelings or your thoughts.

When you feel bad as you lose weight you develop negative associations to the idea of losing weight. This causes you to feel pain. Pain is a negative emotion that people attempt to avoid at all costs. Pain, like any problem, is caused by ignorance. Ignorance is not knowing, and people just don't know some things. Therefore, everybody is ignorant. All people can do is attempt to expand their conscious awareness in order to grow intellectually and spiritually. This growth is impossible if you are focusing on your physical reality, rather than living in the body you want to live in. To fix this problem you want to see your body where you want it to end up. In other words, you want to see the end result. If you just focus on the end result, you will be able to withstand circumstances.

Now, when employing the method of changing your thoughts which automatically change your feelings and actions you will need to satisfy two prerequisites.

1) Make sure your goal is something big. Your image of your body should be of your body in its ideal condition based on what you think. Don't base it on what anybody else thinks. You are responsible for your thoughts, feelings, and actions (aka your results). Don't give that responsibility to anybody else or you will enter an uncreative mental state where you will only go backwards from where you want to go. You also won't be fulfilled in the process as many negative emotions will be expressed if you live how you think somebody else thinks you should live. Back on point, your goal should be so big that you fear going after it. If you do not fear a goal, its probably not a good goal. This is because goals are meant to develop people intellectually and spiritually. Goals are meant to cause people to progressively move towards a worthy ideal. In other words, moving towards goals that cause people to grow on a continual bases is what makes an individual successful.

2) When a negative emotion or idea becomes present, don't put energy into it. The 7 negative emotions are fear, jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, superstition, and anger. The negative emotion of jealousy is misunderstood by many people and is a huge problem for a lot of people trying to live in their ideal body. I define jealousy as "An emotion caused by a fear of losing something that you don't have." Any time you come across a jealous idea, simply realize you fear losing something you don't even have. Then remind yourself of how ridiculous such a negative idea (jealousy) is and you will not put any energy into being jealous. You can also do that with the other negative emotions, if you choose to define each of them. If you would like, I could go into more detail regarding the other 6 negative emotions. Moreover, when a negative idea, or an idea that will not move your towards your picture of living in your ideal body enters your consciousness, just say next and get a different idea. An idea is an accumulation of thoughts bundled up together. Thoughts are produced by reason, which is a faculty of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is what dictates your habits. When you think about positive ideas, you develop positive habits. Keep in mind, that the conscious mind can only think of one thing at any given time. If you maximize the time you are thinking about your ideal body and minimize the time thinking about the fear, why you can't, etc...you will change your habitual way of thinking about your body. This will cause you to feel and consequently act differently, which will change your results into what you desire.



In conclusion:
All it takes to 'lose weight' is making a decision. Once you make the decision, get a picture of yourself living in your ideal body. Then, when fear strikes or negative emotions come replace them in your consciousness with positive ideas. These positive ideas can simply be the picture your created of being in your ideal body. You have to be an actor, you have to act like you are already living how you want to live. You should absolutely love yourself when you look in the mirror. Your actions will automatically change if you did the former correctly, and you will enjoy the process. Once the actions kick in your results will consequently change. The time this takes really can't be determined since there are so many unpredictable factors. When you do make your goal and put it down in writing, make sure everything is in the present tense. The only thing not in the present tense is the date by which you want to achieve living in your ideal body. This date cannot be predicted, but you should take a lot of caution in picking a date that isn't too soon, but will also provide motivation in the process (AKA seems unreasonable to you with your current awareness). If you haven't satisfied your goal when the date comes, just push the date back and keep the picture.





In response to some of the posts above me:

"Write down (or otherwise document) what you're eating / how much"
"Make a sustainable plan for exercise."

If you develop the habit of thinking about your ideal weight, you will not be making bad eating choices. Your current paradigm will be urging you to pick unhealthy foods, but you can just use the power of decision to overcome those thoughts. Decisions are made in a split second. There are three things you should consider when making a decision:
1) What will I get?
2) WiIl it move me towards my goal?
3) Will it violate the rights of others?

If you answer yes to #1 and #2, and no to #3 then make the decision and stick with the decision.

When losing weight you will be making a lot of advanced decisions. Meaning, you will have already made a decision of what you will do before presented with the opportunity to make the decision. As an example, you might make the decision to eat healthy. Then if you go to a party and are offered a piece of cake, you will have already made a decision. Think for awhile how to make decisions. Don't go to other people to make decisions, make your own decisions. Otherwise you are not being responsible for your thoughts, feelings, and actions. This will cause you to move backwards, as I mentioned previously.

The two comments of the poster I quoted above can easily be accomplished through the information I have provided in the post. From my understanding, your outcome is not to lift X amount of weight or run X amount of miles. Its to live in your ideal body. The accomplishment of this idea is accomplished progressively. In other words, it happens over time. The only way to ensure it will happen over time and you won't get off track is by changing your habitual way of thinking (Through repetition of ideal, which will be accomplished by following the information I provided) and employing the technique to get rid of negative emotions and ideas.