Lose weight and feel slimmer:
Lose weight, feel slimmer, fit into those skinny jeans, slip easily into that little black number. Your weight loss can start whenever you want, all you have to do is make the decision.
Now sometimes that decision can seem hard, to diet, to be active, to eat healthily, you want to be slim, to lose that weight but the thought of giving up certain foods can feel so hard, you know you should but at the back of your mind a voice is saying "i don't wanna" and when you think of yourself the image you see is of a big fat lump!
And it's that voice and that image that you need to take control of first, oh you can go to Weight watchers, Slimmers World, do the Jenny Craig diet, order in ready made meals like Diet Chef and if you're really desperate and want to really suffer you could do the Size Zero diet.
But and it's a big but, if you've still got that voice at the back of your mind screaming abuse and putting you down, and that mental image of yourself is still an image of a big fat lump, then it's very likely that any weight you do lose goes back on even quicker than it came off.
So the first thing to do for long term weight loss, is to take control of that voice, because your friend it is not. If you had a person that followed you round saying all those horrible things that you say to yourself, inside your head, you wouldn't stand for it, but you allow yourself to put yourself down like all the time.
Start replacing that voice with a helpful voice, a voice of friendship that encourages you and tells you how well you're doing, give it a voice that you respect and admire and hear it saying all the things you want to hear. Tune out that old voice, make it sound smaller, give it a silly voice, imagine it's way in the distance, hit it with a stick, or just plain ignore it, think sticking your fingers in your ears and going la la la, whatever works, do it.
And get used to listening out for that new friendly, helpful, supportive voice and before long that's the voice you'll focus on, and WOW what a difference that makes, because now you feel in control and those foods that you couldn't say no to before don't seem so important, they've lost their power over you, because you've taken it back.
Now for that image that you have of yourself in your head, the big, fat image that looks awful no matter what clothes it's wearing, well it's time to say good riddance to that old image and imagine how you want to look, look at this new image of yourself from all angles and really take a moment to admire how good you look, and from now on that's the image you'll see whenever you think of yourself, an image of you that puts a big smile on your face, and makes you feel so good.
Because it's your mind, and if you can't look amazing and encourage yourself in there, then how can you do it anywhere else?
Lose weight and feel slimmer.
