I certainly hope so.
Makes you realise how quickly time flies. We’re already in the middle of February ... so I thought this would be a good time to review.
Review what exactly?
Well one important date in the calendar reminds me of another just past ... New Year ... and those dreaded resolutions. Did you make any ... perhaps to lose 5 or 10 or 20 or more pounds and whatever happened to that resolution? – I guess you forgot about it!
What if you didn’t make any resolutions – what if you think they are folly?
What does that tell you about yourself, your beliefs, your dreams and your outlook?
These are important points that I want to address in this post, but first ... what exactly is a New Years resolution?
A goal, a wish, a dream, a decision?
And what’s more ... how long does it take to forget about them and slip back into the old ways?
These are incredibly important points.
Why?
Because they give you a vital clue to how to improve your weight loss success.
What is a resolution ... a goal, a wish, a dream, a decision ... probably all four to some degree.
The dream for many wannabe slimmers, I guess, is the vision of their ideal self. How they would love to be.
The wish ... the desire to be ... what they are not. 'I wish I was thin' ... might sum it up.
The decision ... the willingness to have a go. ‘I’m going to do it’ does reflect the true outlook of a resolution.
The goal ... the object of all the effort ... the target weight.
Unfortunately, so few ever get there.
So what about those who think resolutions are folly or not worth bothering with?
Perhaps a sad reflection of an unhappy viewpoint on life. A cynical outlook brought about by an inability to succeed with past resolutions.
Better not to dream, better not to set goals ... than to fail.
Does it always have to be this way?
Nope.
The failure to set resolutions, or succeed with past goals reflects one small issue ... we’ll come back to that in a tick.
So how long does it take to forget about them?
We need to cover this point before we can resolve that nagging small issue.
The answer to this, I guess, leads us to the point of issue.
We are all different and the length of time it takes us to forget those resolutions varies with that difference in our personalities. And therein lies the key to a successful resolution.
They say (who exactly they are I’ll never know) ‘time is a great healer’ because it helps us to forget. But we don’t want to forget ... we want to succeed!
We need to make that goal achievable for us as individual’s before time takes over and we forget.
So if you have a dream to lose weight, then you have to be able to lose the desired goal amount before you forget and consequently ... fail.
It doesn’t matter that the goal weight may be a fraction of your ultimate target weight, the resolution goal has to act as a carrot ... not a burden.
Too easy and you will not drive forward towards it ... too difficult and failure is imminent and the cynicism swells a little larger like a growing tumour.
The problem as I see it, is that most people cannot set reasonable goals. They are wildly optimistic and consequently unachievable.
So how do you proceed?
Well by not setting a goal ... at least not at first anyway.
Get up one morning ... doesn’t have to be Monday morning, do your normal toilet duties and then weight yourself. Make a note of it just to be sure.
Why this way?
Because you will always be the lightest you can be and it starts a new habit.
Lets say you ‘forget’ your old resolutions in ... two weeks. So you weigh yourself in the same way in two weeks time. If you can only last a week ... then weigh yourself in a weeks time.
Do whatever you can to lose weight, that you can live with. Don’t starve yourself and don’t flog yourself.
Whatever weight loss you have achieved in that time frame becomes your goal weight loss for the next two weeks, or week or however long you set. You have just proven you can do it. If you want to succeed, just repeat it.
So go ahead ... dangle that carrot!
Until next time,
Cheerio
Ian
PS There is an even simpler way to proceed with weight loss goals. I never even set any weight loss goals in my weight loss campaign.
It is similar to the above ... perhaps just a slight extension if you like. More on this in the future.
More weight loss tips can be found at: http://www.slimmersecrets.com/
Good Luck with your weight loss.
Monday, 16 February 2009
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Why Most DIETS Do NOT Work
It’s the worst kept secret in the slimming world – diets almost never work!
The people who sell you dieting products are some of the most highly trained sales people in the world. They use powerful influencing techniques to get you to part with your cash to buy into their diet plans, weight loss pills and exercise equipment just because everyone else seems to be buying into that approach too.
Well guess what…. Most of your fellow wannabe slimmers can't make those strategies work either.
But they know so little about successful slimming, most of them don’t even know it doesn’t work, they just think that they have failed again.
Why don’t they realise?
Because they break the first golden rule of slimming. They don’t realise they need to test and measure their efforts correctly.
Fortunately, you’re smart enough to know that from now on, every effort that you make on your slimming campaign needs to be measured.
You need to know precisely what you are getting involved in, what response you expect and how well those strategies and techniques work for you.
The only way to be sure your strategy is working for you is to measure it correctly.
Then you’ll know if your dieting or your entire slimming strategy worked or not.
And there is an important distinction here: slimming and dieting are not the same thing, even though many within the industry and slimming wannabes use the terms loosely and interchange them regularly.
Dieting is one string to the slimmers bow. Slimming is your complete package – everything you use to get slim.
One of the key features that leads to slimming success is to use more than a one dimensional approach.
Many dieters sadly think that they need to radically change their diets because experts preach to them that they need to do so. Consequently they make massive radical changes to their diet to eat healthily hoping that when they get their diet under control that they will start to “do more exercise”.
But this approach does not take into account the dieters state of mind when they adopt radical changes to their diet ... cravings, feelings of deprivation and depression regularly follow ... definately not a healthy outcome and often this approach results in the exact opposite ... out of control eating and drinking.
Dieting never takes into account the most important point of all ... you the person ... and not you the dieting subject.
Almost all diets or eating plans are designed with universal simplicity in mind – ie they can be broadly applied to the general population.
But this simplicity never takes your life into consideration .. it cannot by design... so they cannot take into account how you live your life.
That is why this approach almost never works.
The people who sell you dieting products are some of the most highly trained sales people in the world. They use powerful influencing techniques to get you to part with your cash to buy into their diet plans, weight loss pills and exercise equipment just because everyone else seems to be buying into that approach too.
Well guess what…. Most of your fellow wannabe slimmers can't make those strategies work either.
But they know so little about successful slimming, most of them don’t even know it doesn’t work, they just think that they have failed again.
Why don’t they realise?
Because they break the first golden rule of slimming. They don’t realise they need to test and measure their efforts correctly.
Fortunately, you’re smart enough to know that from now on, every effort that you make on your slimming campaign needs to be measured.
You need to know precisely what you are getting involved in, what response you expect and how well those strategies and techniques work for you.
The only way to be sure your strategy is working for you is to measure it correctly.
Then you’ll know if your dieting or your entire slimming strategy worked or not.
And there is an important distinction here: slimming and dieting are not the same thing, even though many within the industry and slimming wannabes use the terms loosely and interchange them regularly.
Dieting is one string to the slimmers bow. Slimming is your complete package – everything you use to get slim.
One of the key features that leads to slimming success is to use more than a one dimensional approach.
Many dieters sadly think that they need to radically change their diets because experts preach to them that they need to do so. Consequently they make massive radical changes to their diet to eat healthily hoping that when they get their diet under control that they will start to “do more exercise”.
But this approach does not take into account the dieters state of mind when they adopt radical changes to their diet ... cravings, feelings of deprivation and depression regularly follow ... definately not a healthy outcome and often this approach results in the exact opposite ... out of control eating and drinking.
Dieting never takes into account the most important point of all ... you the person ... and not you the dieting subject.
Almost all diets or eating plans are designed with universal simplicity in mind – ie they can be broadly applied to the general population.
But this simplicity never takes your life into consideration .. it cannot by design... so they cannot take into account how you live your life.
That is why this approach almost never works.
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