Both my wife Katie and I were desperate to reduce our weight, so we had a little heart to heart about why we wanted to be thinner, and what that would mean to us. It was amazing, but we really didn’t aspire to anything that remarkable. Having more oomph to play with the kids was Katie’s number one goal. She wanted to become more self-assured when undressing in our bedroom too.
My main wish was to be able to purchase clothes that fit properly! We have a 3 storey townhouse, and I wanted to run up the stairs without panting by the top floor!
As we read more about weight loss, we realised that there’s a direct link between self image and size. Unfortunately, the larger we grow, the less we seem to care for ourselves. The majority of obese people think that fat loss will make them happy again. As overweight people ourselves, we completely identified with that. However, this is what we found -
Our sub conscious mind cannot distinguish between reality and imagination. Therefore, whatever is dominant in our sub-conscious is transferred into our conscious mind. Put another way, a thought that dominates our mind becomes our perception of reality.
Take a little time to ponder on that one… For years we’ve probably been programming our mind about how over weight we are. So instead of telling our subconscious what we don’t want, we should tell it what we DO want.
We should also make the rewards of being a lighter person our focal point – and not the effort it takes to get there. Firstly, we compiled a list of activities and such like that being too heavy made very difficult: They were things such as having fun, dancing, walks on the beach, more confidence, better sex, sports activities etc.
We imagined going on vacation, wearing shorts and tee-shirts and looking great. We got the respect and esteem of people as we confidently mingled with others. We brought the dream to life.
Subsequently we’re both well on our way to our target weights – not stick thin, but happy! We look at each other every day now and smile – you will too when you see how far you’ve come.
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