Saturday, January 10, 2009
6 pounds gone!
Okay, so it's only 6 pounds. I have been going to the gym and not touching the carbs. Thursday and Friday I was feeling nauseous and just yucky but I made it through. I have such a long way to go!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
long time big gain!
Soooo....I'm back. Lost my way-again. I haven't got on the scale for a very long time. I don't need the scale to tell me that my pants are bursting and I can't walk up the steps without gasping for air...going to work is no fun either. (Another person there had gastric bypass and has lost a hundred plus pounds.) SO. Here is the plan: to the gym 3x 's a week. Low fat, low carb. No sugar. I have some serious excuses to work through!
I will be using a vision board, a journal and a hypnosis cd. The hardest part for me is to change the way I think about losing weight. I tend to dwell on the negative.
Can you tell I am depressed?
I will be using a vision board, a journal and a hypnosis cd. The hardest part for me is to change the way I think about losing weight. I tend to dwell on the negative.
Can you tell I am depressed?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Changes....
I have been off plan for awhile now. I lost 2 pounds just eating regular food and watching portions. I am also trying to be more active…riding my bike and not letting myself sit around so much.
Here’s the thing: I am working on changing my thinking. I shared all of these articles that seem to be telling us the same thing: fix your mind to fix your weight. I am guilty of negative thinking! I had been following all of the diet rules and nothing was happening for me…so there has to be more to it than just the food.
Changing the way I think has not been easy…there is a whole lot of negative around me every day…it will take me some time to really get to where I need to be!
When I have a little more time I will give the details of what I have been doing to try to change. Maybe it will help someone else who is having trouble finding the answer.
Here’s the thing: I am working on changing my thinking. I shared all of these articles that seem to be telling us the same thing: fix your mind to fix your weight. I am guilty of negative thinking! I had been following all of the diet rules and nothing was happening for me…so there has to be more to it than just the food.
Changing the way I think has not been easy…there is a whole lot of negative around me every day…it will take me some time to really get to where I need to be!
When I have a little more time I will give the details of what I have been doing to try to change. Maybe it will help someone else who is having trouble finding the answer.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Diet Overkill: 25 Of the Most Ridiculous (and Ineffective) Popular Diets
Published on Tuesday February 26th , 2008
By Jessica Hupp
Some people will do anything to lose weight, even if it means defying common sense and nutrition. But just because your best friend's cousin lost 20 pounds by drinking hot-peppered lemonade doesn't mean you should do the same. These 25 diets are not only ridiculous, they're ineffective and even dangerous.
Atkins: Although wildly popular, and quite effective for some people, the Atkins diet is just not sustainable for most dieters. This diet cuts out healthy foods like fruit, and adopts a limited list of foods that are often high in fat and otherwise unhealthy. Above all, this diet's extreme restriction makes it incredibly difficult for most people to stick with it.
The Subway diet: Substituting large, unhealthy meals with a wholesome sandwich is certainly an effective way to lose weight. However, the execution of the Subway diet is what makes this one a failure. This may come as a surprise to some, but not every sandwich at Subway is a dietary winner. You can't eat 14 meatball subs a week and expect to see pounds come off. For this diet to succeed, you'd have to eat very specific items from Subway's menu and keep up a strict regimen of exercise. This diet is useless because it's just as easy to make your own sandwich and take a walk.
Cabbage soup diet: Also known as the "Russian peasant diet," the "Sacred Heart diet," and "TJ miracle soup diet," this diet consists of eating a low-calorie cabbage soup for 7 days. It's generally claimed to cause weight loss of 10 pounds within a week, although most experts believe that sort of weight loss is not possible. Most of the weight lost on this diet is water, so it's not permanent. It's also problematic because of a high sodium content, extremely low protein, feelings of weakeness, and increased flatulence.
The tapeworm diet: Almost too disgusting to detail, this diet involves swallowing cysts that you've dissected out of beef carcass. The plan is to allow the tapeworm to live in you for up to 10 weeks, and then take prescribed medication to kill it. It should go without saying that this is perhaps one of the most dangerous diets you can adopt. It not only requires you to ingest a parasite, it encourages unhealthy eating habits, which are almost guaranteed to make you gain every pound back once the worm is gone.
The cereal diet: Like the Subway diet, the cereal diet is silly because it requires you to buy a specific food substitute, and eat it on a regular basis. This diet isn't effective because of the high quality nutrition cereal offers-cereal is generally full of sugar-but rather because you're required to measure the amount of food you're eating. No matter what your diet, monitoring and carefully measuring food to restrict calories will make you lose weight. You don't need a special cereal to do so.
The low fat diet: Nearly everyone has purchased a low or no fat product because we believe that somehow it's healthier and will help keep the pounds off. But the dirty trick about the low fat diet is that these products aren't healthier at all-often, you trade fat for more sugar, sodium, or calories. Sometimes, serving sizes are skewed to make an otherwise unhealthy food look better than before.
Hallelujah diet: Reverend George M. Malkmus was diagnosed with colon cancer, and instead of getting treatment, he changed his diet to "the original diet God gave mankind." Although the diet consists mainly of good staples like fruits and vegetables, you can't just eat produce you'd pick up at the store. No, this diet requires that you mail-order direct from the Reverend's farm because the general American food supply is devoid of nutrients. Ironically, this diet has been found to cause nutrient deficiencies, and due to its high-fiber and beta carotine content, is less than ideal for cancer patients.
South Beach Diet: Although it's created and promoted by a cardiologist, the South Beach diet is less than ideal. This diet takes you through phases of high restriction and lower restriction, constantly keeping your body on a roller coaster of losing and maintaining weight. Once you begin to regain pounds, you go back to the more restricted phase. Yo-yo diets such as this one are not only ineffective, they're dangerous to your heart and overall health.
Slim Fast: Again, another product-based diet that offers little more than ineffective substitution. In the short term, you will probably see weight loss, but Slim Fast's shakes and bars are not mentally or physically satisfying enough for the diet to be sustained, especially when you consider that there are healthier, cheaper, and tastier alternatives out there.
The chocolate diet: As studies have come out promoting chocolate as a supplement to a healthy diet, the chocolate diet has come out as well. This diet focuses on decreased calorie consumption with liquid chocolate diet shakes. It acts as a vitamin replacement, and although effective in the short term, has not been found to stimulate metabolism or burn fat, as the diet claims. Rather, any weight lost is a direct effect of decreased caloric intake.
The Fiengold diet: Dr. Benjamin Feingold created a diet free of chemicals believed to cause ADD and ADHD. This included not only food, but also certain drugs and hygiene items. Although this diet is not physically harmful, and can be helpful in some instances, it's generally not wise to adopt this regimen. Critics warn against teaching children that food can dictate performance and behavior, and depriving them of appropriate professional help from doctors.
The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About: This diet gives the tapeworm a run for its money. Why? The weight loss "cure" consists of nothing more than ingesting the urine of pregnant women. Whether this is effective or not really doesn't matter-there is absolutely, positively, a better way to lose weight than injecting yourself with pee.
The blood type diet: This confusing diet requires that you eat according to your blood type. For example, if you're a blood Type A, that means vegetables are your ideal food. The main reason why this diet works at all is because-you guessed it-you're limiting what you eat. Of course, this can be achieved through portion control, and you can eat what you feel like whether you're a "hunter," "nomad," "cultivator," or any combination thereof.
The Hollywood diet: It should be obvious that drinking nothing but juice is bound to leave you hungry and unsatisfied, but many continue to attempt to use this quick-fix detox program as a way to permanently lose weight. Unfortunately, that's just not going to happen. This juice has a high sugar content, and nearly all of the weight you'll lose is water, which will come right back.
The Grapefruit diet: This horrible diet is simply unsustainable, offering little nutrition calories, or taste. Even worse, excessive consumption of this acidic citrus fruit could lead to a stomach ulcer. Additionally, grapefruit juice is dangerous when mixed with some medications.
Russian Air Force diet: With this diet, you can put a number of herbs, sauces, and spices on your food, but you'll have a hard time finding a place for all of those extras to land, considering breakfast is coffee, lunch is two eggs and a tomato, and dinner is salad and tiny portion of meat. This simple caloric restriction is just not sustainable, leaving dieters hovering near starvation, and it has a high sodium content.
The master cleanse : Also known as the lemon water detox diet, this concoction can't even really be called a diet because you're not eating anything. With the master cleanse, you'll subsist on lemon water with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Incredibly temporary, any weight loss resulting from this detox will come back almost immediately.
The macrobiotic diet: This diet consists primarily of grains, vegetables, and beans, specifically avoiding processed and refined foods. It also requires thorough chewing before swallowing to avoid overeating. Although this is overall good diet advice, the problem with the macrobiotic diet is that it's often presented as a "cure" for cancer, while many long-term macrobiotics have developed and died from cancer.
The Kimkins diet: This Atkins with a twist requires that dieters follow a strict caloric restriction, which as you must know by now, is nothing special. Additionally, this diet is wrapped up in scandal, as the creator claimed to have lost 198 pounds in 6 months, but later gained it all back, and tried to hide this fact from other dieters.
The magnetic diet: This diet follows the concept that all foods have magnetism that attracts either health or disease. It requires that you drink only water and eat specific foods with "invigorating magnetism," and follow an eating schedule that creates a caloric deficit. Despite all of the quackery surrounding the diet, it's actually a very simple method of eating nutritious foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains, combined with portion control and exercise.
The hot dog diet: Also known as the three-day diet, this diet is ridiculous because it doesn't recommend that you eat healthy food-in fact, you'll eat ice cream as well. Instead, you'll eat carefully counted portions of food, resulting in the oh-so-familiar calorie restriction that so many ridiculous diets feature.
The apple cider vinegar diet: The apple cider vinegar diet succeeds only in making dieters not want to eat at all, mostly because you're just not likely to be hungry after downing straight vinegar. You drink a few teaspoons of vinegar, which is supposed to supress your appetite. The secret is not that apple cider vinegar is particularly helpful for weight loss, but because reducing portions and exercising are.
Dr. Siegal’s cookie diet: The cookie diet is a lot less appealing than it sounds. Like Subway, Slim Fast, and other weight loss fads, this diet requires that you eat specific foods that must be purchased separate from a regular diet. These cookies are high protein, but there's really nothing special about the diet except that it's extremely low in calories. What's more, you're likely to get very tired of eating cookies day in and day out.
Wu-Yi Tea diet: Although it's presented as a natural cure endorsed by Oprah and Rachel Ray, that couldn't be farther from the truth about Wu-Yi tea. There's absolutely nothing special about this particular tea. It's just oolong tea, and it offers no more benefits than the tea you can pick up at your grocery or health store.
The Martha's Vineyard diet: Just like the Hollywood diet, this detox requires that you drink nothing but juice for a specific period of time. Again, this will only help you lose weight in the short term, and you'll gain every pound back once you realize there's more to life than drinking vegetable juice all day.
By Jessica Hupp
Some people will do anything to lose weight, even if it means defying common sense and nutrition. But just because your best friend's cousin lost 20 pounds by drinking hot-peppered lemonade doesn't mean you should do the same. These 25 diets are not only ridiculous, they're ineffective and even dangerous.
Atkins: Although wildly popular, and quite effective for some people, the Atkins diet is just not sustainable for most dieters. This diet cuts out healthy foods like fruit, and adopts a limited list of foods that are often high in fat and otherwise unhealthy. Above all, this diet's extreme restriction makes it incredibly difficult for most people to stick with it.
The Subway diet: Substituting large, unhealthy meals with a wholesome sandwich is certainly an effective way to lose weight. However, the execution of the Subway diet is what makes this one a failure. This may come as a surprise to some, but not every sandwich at Subway is a dietary winner. You can't eat 14 meatball subs a week and expect to see pounds come off. For this diet to succeed, you'd have to eat very specific items from Subway's menu and keep up a strict regimen of exercise. This diet is useless because it's just as easy to make your own sandwich and take a walk.
Cabbage soup diet: Also known as the "Russian peasant diet," the "Sacred Heart diet," and "TJ miracle soup diet," this diet consists of eating a low-calorie cabbage soup for 7 days. It's generally claimed to cause weight loss of 10 pounds within a week, although most experts believe that sort of weight loss is not possible. Most of the weight lost on this diet is water, so it's not permanent. It's also problematic because of a high sodium content, extremely low protein, feelings of weakeness, and increased flatulence.
The tapeworm diet: Almost too disgusting to detail, this diet involves swallowing cysts that you've dissected out of beef carcass. The plan is to allow the tapeworm to live in you for up to 10 weeks, and then take prescribed medication to kill it. It should go without saying that this is perhaps one of the most dangerous diets you can adopt. It not only requires you to ingest a parasite, it encourages unhealthy eating habits, which are almost guaranteed to make you gain every pound back once the worm is gone.
The cereal diet: Like the Subway diet, the cereal diet is silly because it requires you to buy a specific food substitute, and eat it on a regular basis. This diet isn't effective because of the high quality nutrition cereal offers-cereal is generally full of sugar-but rather because you're required to measure the amount of food you're eating. No matter what your diet, monitoring and carefully measuring food to restrict calories will make you lose weight. You don't need a special cereal to do so.
The low fat diet: Nearly everyone has purchased a low or no fat product because we believe that somehow it's healthier and will help keep the pounds off. But the dirty trick about the low fat diet is that these products aren't healthier at all-often, you trade fat for more sugar, sodium, or calories. Sometimes, serving sizes are skewed to make an otherwise unhealthy food look better than before.
Hallelujah diet: Reverend George M. Malkmus was diagnosed with colon cancer, and instead of getting treatment, he changed his diet to "the original diet God gave mankind." Although the diet consists mainly of good staples like fruits and vegetables, you can't just eat produce you'd pick up at the store. No, this diet requires that you mail-order direct from the Reverend's farm because the general American food supply is devoid of nutrients. Ironically, this diet has been found to cause nutrient deficiencies, and due to its high-fiber and beta carotine content, is less than ideal for cancer patients.
South Beach Diet: Although it's created and promoted by a cardiologist, the South Beach diet is less than ideal. This diet takes you through phases of high restriction and lower restriction, constantly keeping your body on a roller coaster of losing and maintaining weight. Once you begin to regain pounds, you go back to the more restricted phase. Yo-yo diets such as this one are not only ineffective, they're dangerous to your heart and overall health.
Slim Fast: Again, another product-based diet that offers little more than ineffective substitution. In the short term, you will probably see weight loss, but Slim Fast's shakes and bars are not mentally or physically satisfying enough for the diet to be sustained, especially when you consider that there are healthier, cheaper, and tastier alternatives out there.
The chocolate diet: As studies have come out promoting chocolate as a supplement to a healthy diet, the chocolate diet has come out as well. This diet focuses on decreased calorie consumption with liquid chocolate diet shakes. It acts as a vitamin replacement, and although effective in the short term, has not been found to stimulate metabolism or burn fat, as the diet claims. Rather, any weight lost is a direct effect of decreased caloric intake.
The Fiengold diet: Dr. Benjamin Feingold created a diet free of chemicals believed to cause ADD and ADHD. This included not only food, but also certain drugs and hygiene items. Although this diet is not physically harmful, and can be helpful in some instances, it's generally not wise to adopt this regimen. Critics warn against teaching children that food can dictate performance and behavior, and depriving them of appropriate professional help from doctors.
The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About: This diet gives the tapeworm a run for its money. Why? The weight loss "cure" consists of nothing more than ingesting the urine of pregnant women. Whether this is effective or not really doesn't matter-there is absolutely, positively, a better way to lose weight than injecting yourself with pee.
The blood type diet: This confusing diet requires that you eat according to your blood type. For example, if you're a blood Type A, that means vegetables are your ideal food. The main reason why this diet works at all is because-you guessed it-you're limiting what you eat. Of course, this can be achieved through portion control, and you can eat what you feel like whether you're a "hunter," "nomad," "cultivator," or any combination thereof.
The Hollywood diet: It should be obvious that drinking nothing but juice is bound to leave you hungry and unsatisfied, but many continue to attempt to use this quick-fix detox program as a way to permanently lose weight. Unfortunately, that's just not going to happen. This juice has a high sugar content, and nearly all of the weight you'll lose is water, which will come right back.
The Grapefruit diet: This horrible diet is simply unsustainable, offering little nutrition calories, or taste. Even worse, excessive consumption of this acidic citrus fruit could lead to a stomach ulcer. Additionally, grapefruit juice is dangerous when mixed with some medications.
Russian Air Force diet: With this diet, you can put a number of herbs, sauces, and spices on your food, but you'll have a hard time finding a place for all of those extras to land, considering breakfast is coffee, lunch is two eggs and a tomato, and dinner is salad and tiny portion of meat. This simple caloric restriction is just not sustainable, leaving dieters hovering near starvation, and it has a high sodium content.
The master cleanse : Also known as the lemon water detox diet, this concoction can't even really be called a diet because you're not eating anything. With the master cleanse, you'll subsist on lemon water with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Incredibly temporary, any weight loss resulting from this detox will come back almost immediately.
The macrobiotic diet: This diet consists primarily of grains, vegetables, and beans, specifically avoiding processed and refined foods. It also requires thorough chewing before swallowing to avoid overeating. Although this is overall good diet advice, the problem with the macrobiotic diet is that it's often presented as a "cure" for cancer, while many long-term macrobiotics have developed and died from cancer.
The Kimkins diet: This Atkins with a twist requires that dieters follow a strict caloric restriction, which as you must know by now, is nothing special. Additionally, this diet is wrapped up in scandal, as the creator claimed to have lost 198 pounds in 6 months, but later gained it all back, and tried to hide this fact from other dieters.
The magnetic diet: This diet follows the concept that all foods have magnetism that attracts either health or disease. It requires that you drink only water and eat specific foods with "invigorating magnetism," and follow an eating schedule that creates a caloric deficit. Despite all of the quackery surrounding the diet, it's actually a very simple method of eating nutritious foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains, combined with portion control and exercise.
The hot dog diet: Also known as the three-day diet, this diet is ridiculous because it doesn't recommend that you eat healthy food-in fact, you'll eat ice cream as well. Instead, you'll eat carefully counted portions of food, resulting in the oh-so-familiar calorie restriction that so many ridiculous diets feature.
The apple cider vinegar diet: The apple cider vinegar diet succeeds only in making dieters not want to eat at all, mostly because you're just not likely to be hungry after downing straight vinegar. You drink a few teaspoons of vinegar, which is supposed to supress your appetite. The secret is not that apple cider vinegar is particularly helpful for weight loss, but because reducing portions and exercising are.
Dr. Siegal’s cookie diet: The cookie diet is a lot less appealing than it sounds. Like Subway, Slim Fast, and other weight loss fads, this diet requires that you eat specific foods that must be purchased separate from a regular diet. These cookies are high protein, but there's really nothing special about the diet except that it's extremely low in calories. What's more, you're likely to get very tired of eating cookies day in and day out.
Wu-Yi Tea diet: Although it's presented as a natural cure endorsed by Oprah and Rachel Ray, that couldn't be farther from the truth about Wu-Yi tea. There's absolutely nothing special about this particular tea. It's just oolong tea, and it offers no more benefits than the tea you can pick up at your grocery or health store.
The Martha's Vineyard diet: Just like the Hollywood diet, this detox requires that you drink nothing but juice for a specific period of time. Again, this will only help you lose weight in the short term, and you'll gain every pound back once you realize there's more to life than drinking vegetable juice all day.
Weight Loss And The Law Of Attraction - Acting As If
By: Catherine L. Taylor, a.k.a. "The Weight Loss Master."
A weight loss master is a "goddess of attraction." She aligns herself with the creative vibration of the universe to manifest the health, wealth and happiness she deserves.
The law of attraction is a universal principle that states that you attract to you what you believe and feel. “Like attracts like.” The law of attraction forms the basis for positive thinking but is more than that. Your thoughts and beliefs create a self-fulfilling prophecy. With the power of your thoughts you attract circumstances into your life that vibrate, or are aligned, with the frequency of your thoughts.
Your mind is like a powerful magnet attracting to you people and events that energetically match the content or vibration of your thoughts. For example, if you think predominately angry thoughts you will attract angry people and experiences into your life. The quickest way to attract more positive experiences in your life is to think more positively.
The law of attraction states that you create your reality through the power of your thoughts. Your thoughts create your beliefs, your beliefs create your attitudes, and your attitudes influence and shape your actions.
People often mistakenly think the law of attraction means you are responsible for absolutely everything that happens in your life. They think it means blaming people who are victims of horrible circumstances. This is not true!
There are acts of God, nature, and genetics. There are many things you do not have control of in this world. To think otherwise is to confuse yourself with God. It also puts you at the center of the universe. This is to live with the egocentricity of a child.
What you do have full control over is how you react to the things that happen to you. How you interpret the events in your life determines your reaction to those events. You also have the power to choose your own thoughts and attitudes.
You are the author of the particular story line you are living in the world. You have the power to change that story if you want to.
Your weight problem is a story that may have been in your life for some time now. It may have a cast of many supporting characters. It may have it’s origins in your childhood or other life experiences. The story of your weight includes all the beliefs and attitudes you have about yourself, your body, weight, exercise, and food.
You can only treat your body as well as you feel about yourself inside. Before you attempt to lose weight you need to get your mind in the right frame of mind. Your body will soon follow. Most of us do this backwards. We tell ourselves that we will feel better about ourselves after we lose the weight. It doesn't work that way. No one ever lost much weight or kept it off by feeling bad about themselves.
The foundation of all self-care is self-love. The most courageous and powerful decision you can make is to decide to love yourself and be happy. All that you are seeking will come from this.
Losing weight with the proper foundation and beliefs will guarantee your success. You wouldn't build a house on quicksand would you? When you build your body with love the results will last.
The law of attraction states that you get more of what you put your attention on. When you are overweight your attention is focused on fat, food, diets, calories, etc. You are negatively focused. You are focused on the problem. The key to using the law of attraction for weight loss is to stay focused on the solution. Instead of focusing on what you have to give up, focus on what you are going to get by losing weight.
One of the most powerful ways of doing this is to act as if. Act as if you have already manifested and created the body and weight loss you want. Act like the thin person you want be!
Acting “as if” creates a powerful energy shift. Your actions will begin to align with your new intentions because it creates a positive expectation of success. You cannot succeed without this!
To lose weight successfully you must also know and feel in your heart that you can lose the weight. You must see yourself as capable of achieving your goal. You must decide that you can win this particular game.
This is what separates the winners and the losers in life. The winners expect to succeed, therefore they do. They have optimism. If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.
One of the best ways to act “as if” and create positive expectation, or optimism is through the practice of gratitude, the use of affirmations or positive self-talk, and visualization
A weight loss master is a "goddess of attraction." She aligns herself with the creative vibration of the universe to manifest the health, wealth and happiness she deserves.
The law of attraction is a universal principle that states that you attract to you what you believe and feel. “Like attracts like.” The law of attraction forms the basis for positive thinking but is more than that. Your thoughts and beliefs create a self-fulfilling prophecy. With the power of your thoughts you attract circumstances into your life that vibrate, or are aligned, with the frequency of your thoughts.
Your mind is like a powerful magnet attracting to you people and events that energetically match the content or vibration of your thoughts. For example, if you think predominately angry thoughts you will attract angry people and experiences into your life. The quickest way to attract more positive experiences in your life is to think more positively.
The law of attraction states that you create your reality through the power of your thoughts. Your thoughts create your beliefs, your beliefs create your attitudes, and your attitudes influence and shape your actions.
People often mistakenly think the law of attraction means you are responsible for absolutely everything that happens in your life. They think it means blaming people who are victims of horrible circumstances. This is not true!
There are acts of God, nature, and genetics. There are many things you do not have control of in this world. To think otherwise is to confuse yourself with God. It also puts you at the center of the universe. This is to live with the egocentricity of a child.
What you do have full control over is how you react to the things that happen to you. How you interpret the events in your life determines your reaction to those events. You also have the power to choose your own thoughts and attitudes.
You are the author of the particular story line you are living in the world. You have the power to change that story if you want to.
Your weight problem is a story that may have been in your life for some time now. It may have a cast of many supporting characters. It may have it’s origins in your childhood or other life experiences. The story of your weight includes all the beliefs and attitudes you have about yourself, your body, weight, exercise, and food.
You can only treat your body as well as you feel about yourself inside. Before you attempt to lose weight you need to get your mind in the right frame of mind. Your body will soon follow. Most of us do this backwards. We tell ourselves that we will feel better about ourselves after we lose the weight. It doesn't work that way. No one ever lost much weight or kept it off by feeling bad about themselves.
The foundation of all self-care is self-love. The most courageous and powerful decision you can make is to decide to love yourself and be happy. All that you are seeking will come from this.
Losing weight with the proper foundation and beliefs will guarantee your success. You wouldn't build a house on quicksand would you? When you build your body with love the results will last.
The law of attraction states that you get more of what you put your attention on. When you are overweight your attention is focused on fat, food, diets, calories, etc. You are negatively focused. You are focused on the problem. The key to using the law of attraction for weight loss is to stay focused on the solution. Instead of focusing on what you have to give up, focus on what you are going to get by losing weight.
One of the most powerful ways of doing this is to act as if. Act as if you have already manifested and created the body and weight loss you want. Act like the thin person you want be!
Acting “as if” creates a powerful energy shift. Your actions will begin to align with your new intentions because it creates a positive expectation of success. You cannot succeed without this!
To lose weight successfully you must also know and feel in your heart that you can lose the weight. You must see yourself as capable of achieving your goal. You must decide that you can win this particular game.
This is what separates the winners and the losers in life. The winners expect to succeed, therefore they do. They have optimism. If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.
One of the best ways to act “as if” and create positive expectation, or optimism is through the practice of gratitude, the use of affirmations or positive self-talk, and visualization
Friday, July 11, 2008
7 Easy Visualization Techniques to Create Any Result You Want
By Art Stanley
First among these easy visualization techniques is to achieve a peaceful state of mind. To visualize effectively, you must relax and quiet the mind.
But for most of us, this seemingly simple step is anything but easy when we first attempt to visualize. Our minds are often running at full speed, managing multiple tasks and a barrage of thoughts and concerns. There are just so many things to do... so many issues to deal with... so many worries... that we perpetually juggling everything at once, trying to keep our heads above water.
But visualization is our salvation from our hurried and stressful lives. It's a peaceful oasis amidst a world of chaos. And with these easy visualization techniques you will quickly find freedom and peace of mind whenever this flurry of mental and physical activity gets to be too much. All you need is a few moments of time to relax and refresh your body, mind and spirit.
Visualization provides relief. No longer are you being pulled in different directions trying to multitask or put out various fires. When you learn to quiet your mind you no longer offer the resistance of conflicting thoughts and demands.
Once you reach this magical state, visualize what you want to attain and you find yourself getting back on track. When you can settle your mind so you are no longer focusing on unwanted things, there's nothing there to drag you down. You are free, completely unencumbered by events, activities, demands, pressures, and worries. It's pure bliss and it's available to you whenever you can go within for even a few minutes at a time
Here are 7 easy visualization steps to help you achieve peace, clarity and a single-minded focus on something you really want:
1. Find a quiet place where you can relax and go within.
2. Make yourself comfortable. Wear loose-fitting clothes. Find a seat that's comfortable enough for the time you plan to visualize.
3. Close your eyes. Relax. Take a few deep, relaxing breaths. As you breathe in, take in air as energy and as you breathe out, imagine that you're letting go of every thought that crosses your mind.
4. Just focus on your breathing for a few minutes. Follow your breath and let every competing thought go.
5. As you notice the appearance of other thoughts, simply release then as you exhale. Give them any attention and you give those thoughts energy.
6. Once your mind is free, focus on a result you sincerely want to create. Concentrate on nothing else. Free your mind of every other thought. Your goal during this process is to stay relaxed and to envision yourself already in possession of your goal.
7. Once you imagined your goal in detail and felt the presence of it in your life, simply release it to the Universe. Don't be attached to it. Visualize it. Accept it as yours. And release it.
What you're actually doing through this process is engaging your subconscious mind and universal flow to come to your assistance. The more you visualize, the easier it becomes to reach this peaceful place where your imagination takes over to create the spiritual prototype of whatever you want to bring about in your life.
You may find it easier to listen to a guided visualization CD. Often the background music and soothing voice of the narrator makes it easier to reach a deep meditative state, particularly in the beginning. You are then guided to visualize your goal exactly as you planned.
Whatever you want, you can have it. Follow these easy visualization techniques and you capture the magic whenever you wish. And the sooner you get started, the sooner you gain complete control of your destiny.
First among these easy visualization techniques is to achieve a peaceful state of mind. To visualize effectively, you must relax and quiet the mind.
But for most of us, this seemingly simple step is anything but easy when we first attempt to visualize. Our minds are often running at full speed, managing multiple tasks and a barrage of thoughts and concerns. There are just so many things to do... so many issues to deal with... so many worries... that we perpetually juggling everything at once, trying to keep our heads above water.
But visualization is our salvation from our hurried and stressful lives. It's a peaceful oasis amidst a world of chaos. And with these easy visualization techniques you will quickly find freedom and peace of mind whenever this flurry of mental and physical activity gets to be too much. All you need is a few moments of time to relax and refresh your body, mind and spirit.
Visualization provides relief. No longer are you being pulled in different directions trying to multitask or put out various fires. When you learn to quiet your mind you no longer offer the resistance of conflicting thoughts and demands.
Once you reach this magical state, visualize what you want to attain and you find yourself getting back on track. When you can settle your mind so you are no longer focusing on unwanted things, there's nothing there to drag you down. You are free, completely unencumbered by events, activities, demands, pressures, and worries. It's pure bliss and it's available to you whenever you can go within for even a few minutes at a time
Here are 7 easy visualization steps to help you achieve peace, clarity and a single-minded focus on something you really want:
1. Find a quiet place where you can relax and go within.
2. Make yourself comfortable. Wear loose-fitting clothes. Find a seat that's comfortable enough for the time you plan to visualize.
3. Close your eyes. Relax. Take a few deep, relaxing breaths. As you breathe in, take in air as energy and as you breathe out, imagine that you're letting go of every thought that crosses your mind.
4. Just focus on your breathing for a few minutes. Follow your breath and let every competing thought go.
5. As you notice the appearance of other thoughts, simply release then as you exhale. Give them any attention and you give those thoughts energy.
6. Once your mind is free, focus on a result you sincerely want to create. Concentrate on nothing else. Free your mind of every other thought. Your goal during this process is to stay relaxed and to envision yourself already in possession of your goal.
7. Once you imagined your goal in detail and felt the presence of it in your life, simply release it to the Universe. Don't be attached to it. Visualize it. Accept it as yours. And release it.
What you're actually doing through this process is engaging your subconscious mind and universal flow to come to your assistance. The more you visualize, the easier it becomes to reach this peaceful place where your imagination takes over to create the spiritual prototype of whatever you want to bring about in your life.
You may find it easier to listen to a guided visualization CD. Often the background music and soothing voice of the narrator makes it easier to reach a deep meditative state, particularly in the beginning. You are then guided to visualize your goal exactly as you planned.
Whatever you want, you can have it. Follow these easy visualization techniques and you capture the magic whenever you wish. And the sooner you get started, the sooner you gain complete control of your destiny.
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