For someone who is not necessarily an exercise advocate, I seem to go on a lot about my exercise don’t I, but it is part of my life now and when I am doing my exercises I use that time to do some thinking and come up with some sort of philosophical concept about myself or my surroundings.
Remember when I said that I had always told myself and anyone who would listen that I never lost any weight or inches when I exercised? Well, now I am looking at each machine I use to determine which muscle is being worked on and give my thought to those muscles – and it really works – I can feel those muscles getting stronger. The body is a wonderful thing, especially when helped out by the mind.
Of course, this is what I have been saying all along, if your state of mind is positive it’s working for you – you can accomplish anything. Just getting up in the morning with a positive mental attitude can make your day seem like a party, no matter how hectic it is.
A positive mental attitude is extremely important if you are on an eating program to reduce your weight, or on a maintenance plan so you can keep it off. The best thing anyone who has a chronic overweight problem can do is enter into the eating program with the thought in mind that Number 1 – you want to reduce your weight down to a certain level – Number 2 – you want to keep at that level for the rest of your life. You might think you have these thoughts, but if you find yourself looking for another weight reducing program six months after you released a good number of pounds, you weren’t really thinking these thoughts. But by really committing to these actions with these thoughts in mind, and by focusing and never forgetting them, your eating program will make sense and your maintenance plan will become such a habit that you won’t want to change it. Like I said, the body is a wonderful thing, especially when helped out by the mind.
Focus is one of the key steps to maintaining your weight reduction (and is also one of the steps in the on-line course). If you focus intently on listening to your body and get away from the table when it tells you it is satisfied – you will be surprised and elated when you no longer overeat. If you focus on how you want to look and feel for the rest of your life, you will find yourself doing things that will make this dream come true. I’m not saying you must spend each and every waking moment focusing on these things – take, say, about 15 minutes each morning before you start your day and 15 minutes every night before you go to sleep, focusing on how you want to look and feel, you will soon start looking and feeling just like you want to. Again, focusing on listening to your body when you eat or have a snack will do wonders towards eliminating your urge to overeat. Soon this will become such a habit you won’t have to think about it. I do this focusing every day at every meal, as well as each morning and each night. It keeps me on track.
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