Diet and Attitude: Permanent Weight loss Begins With A Positive Attitude

Diet and Attitude: What are you talking about?  Isn't weight loss just a matter of fewer calories in than expended in a day? That formula will result in weight loss,  Right?

Well the weight will come off using that formula but will it stay off? That answer is a definitive NO.

Permanent weight loss really begins with an attitude change. As the Army DI likes to say its a "check up from the neck up."

In a recent article from the Denver Post the author interviewed Joe Piscatella a 32 year cardiac bypass survivor.  article reference  Joe said the following:

"You can't change your behavior and then get positive. You get positive in your mind first, and then changes in your behavior follow."



It seems that the older we get the more a tape goes of in our head that says "NO, YOU CAN'T..."

According to research that out of a typical 50,000 fleeting thoughts a day, 90 percent are repeated and negative. Do these pitfalls sound familiar?

If you have every tried to diet you know very well how your negative self-talk really can defeat you.  It is just so darn hard to stop listening.  So what do you do?  You have to make a decision and GET POSITIVE.


Here are three steps geared towards GETTING POSITIVE:

1. Surround yourself with people that will support you in your weight loss efforts.  Let your family know that you are going to loose weight and that they can serve as your coach.  As "family member coaches" they should create an environment where you can succeed.  They will be there to be encourage and support you not to tell you how.  That answer resides in YOU.
2. Get a real life coach to assist you in re-shaping your thinking.  Make it a stated goal.  A true coach will listen to what it is YOU want and then support you in that effort. 
3. A real life coach will help you see where life has gotten out of Balance.  The coach will take you through a process where you will identify ways to replace the negative self-talk with positive life affirming talk.

Your life should be about the way you really really want it to be.  Unbalanced living most often leads to stress and unhappiness.

The amount of stress and unhappiness in your life can be managed by you.  

YOU CAN DO IT

There is no doubt that you can change, you have done it before and you can do it again.

So here is your call to action:

1. Consider Coaching as a way to make a real workable plan.
2. With your coach set a goal/s that you know you can attain.  Once that is accomplished set another goal and make it a little tougher.  Do this enough times and you will shore up your level of  confidence.
3. Work the Plan
4. Celebrate your success.

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