In the past, we were told that losing weight was all about ‘willpower’.

Yes, willpower is required, especially at the start to keep you alert and focused on your goal.

But if you continue to force yourself to do something you don’t want to do – it will eventually lead to failure and frustration.

Otherwise, you’ll end up fighting and resisting yourself.

And …the first key thing is......

Motivation

“Motivation is to Weight-Loss What Water is to Life”

 You must want to make this change – to really lose this weight.

And you must keep that motivation at the front of your mind every day until your new eating and exercises habits are firmly established in your routine.

In fact, especially for the first 21 days that it takes for a habit to be established, this goal should be your primary concern in life.

You should write down your target weight and all the benefits you will enjoy when you actualize that goal. 

Then, you MUST affirm this written goal to yourself every morning and night.   

However, try to be kind to yourself, especially during the first few weeks. 

You won’t feel positive and confident about your success all the time.

Some days, you will feel depressed, and fed-up about your progress.

You’ll feel a tremendous urge to give it all up – to go back to your unconscious ways of eating – and start again next week.

Everybody who has tried to lose weight will recognize all these subtle mind traps.

To feel like this sometimes is natural. 

Everybody does.

It’s to be expected.

And it’s not a bad thing. 

It is part of the natural geography of change and achieving new goals. 

The important thing is to accept that sometimes you will feel like this – but it is only a temporary natural by-product of change.

That’s all that is happening. 

In fact, feeling like this is a GOOD sign. 

A FANTASTIC sign.

You should welcome it. 

It means change is occurring and success is near.

So don’t be so hard on yourself. Be easy and gentle.

And don’t let these temporary bad days distract you from your overall goal – and new way of being.

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