Liberate Your Set Esteem and Lose Weight

Often we talk to ourself and make excuses, "It's my genes", "I'm much too busy to get fit", "I like myself this", as a way of protecting yourself from the way we see ourselves now and the way we

Are you a 'look-and-lose' dieter? Have you studied every diet ever created, read a zillion diet books, and yet are still unhappy with your weight?

Has your quest for the holy grail of dieting run into a substitute for nothing else but making changes required to take the ill health out of your current diet?

If so, you may not realise your thoughts are key to your happiness and success.

Do you look at yourself and say, "I'm fat", or "My hips are too big"? Many of us look in the mirror and immediately compare and contrast ourselves to those 'perfect' human specimens we see every single day on TV, in magazines and in the newspapers.

Often we talk to ourself and make excuses, "It's my genes", "I'm much too busy to get fit", "I like myself this", as a way of protecting yourself from the way we see ourselves now and the way we want to be.

If we were to be truly honest with ourselves most people de facto want to lose a few pounds - if we only knew how.

The good news is you CAN inflict your desired body shape with the right thinking some yourself, an understanding of how to get optimal nutrition, healthy eating habits and how to incorporate employ into your lifestyle to keep your muscles toned.

But most important of all, you need a regular mental workout to keep your self-image in shape.

Self-image is densely connected to the success or failure of any goal you think proper to seek after, but none more so that the goal to get yourself fit and healthy.

So how do you go at hand strengthening your self-image? Well fortunately your self-image, just like your muscles, will respond well to a regular work out. You can nothing else but strengthen your self-image with a few daily exercises.

Exercise One - Self Examination

Start by compiling a list of all those negative thoughts your have fast by yourself…I'm undisciplined, I can't manage my time, I let people down, I can't succeed, I don't exercise enough. You will need to decide ere you start this process that you won't get discouraged….these are things that you will occupy to yourself but they most at any rate don't have to control your life.

Next, compile a second list including everything you LIKE with yourself. Keep going until this list is LONGER than the first list you compiled. You might include things such as, I am a good cook, I can make people laugh, I contribute to the soccer club, my daughter loves the way I decorate her room.

Then, take your 'negatives' list and turn it into your 'potentials' list. You do this by creating a positive self-image to every 'negative' you listed. Instead of "I can't succeed", write a counter belief, "I will succeed".

Ceremonially throw out the 'negatives' list - you are saying goodbye forever! Burn them, trash them, destroy them….they are no longer going to be a part of your thinking carelessly yourself.

Now, keep your list of potentials in a prominent place. On your refrigerator door, in your daily journal, or in a picture frame on your desk. Make sure you have them in front on your every single day so that you are reading them constantly and reprogramming your daily thoughts.

Exercise Two: You Can Be What You Want to Be

Now that you have your list of potentials… run your own visualisation stories so that you can 'see' yourself in a new light. For example, if your list of potential includes "I eat just the right portions", visualise yourself with a moderate portion on your plate, and feeling completely satisfied at the conclusion of your meal.

Read through your list of potentials every day taking a few moments of personal quiet time to reflect strongly on your visualisations. Try starting your day first thing in the morning and finishing as the last thing at night with visualising yourself living soul the person on your list, and doing the things you want to do.

Exercise Three: Keep a Journal of Your Daily Successes

Keep a record of all the positive changes in thoughts you have at close quarters yourself. We all have triumphs and 'failures'. You must record and remind yourself of the positive changes seeing as how our human nature will replay the negatives - sometimes flowering them out of proportion. It's important to nurture and let off steam the small steps you make every day.

Exercise Four: Go Easy On Yourself - You Are gorgeous Work In Progress

Don't listen to the criticism…not your own nor that of others! Remember you are the designer of your self-esteem, do not hand this over to other people. You are way too important to give this away. Protect your role as creator of your own self-image and do not, take on directorate negative criticisms. We all make mistakes, and mistakes can be used to help us learn. Do not criticise yourself for somebody human and making a mistake. The only last mistake in the one from which we never learn to grow.

Exercise Five: Forget touching The Past

The only moment you can live is the current one. You can't live in the future and you most as you say shouldn't live in the past….the call out is to take name of our thinking so that we think in the same time zone in which we live!

For example we may be tempted to think somewhere about yesterday's failures…"If only I hadn't eaten second helpings", "If only I didn't reach for the cinnamon cookies". If we concentrate on the mistakes of yesterday this will our intestine to replay our failures and reinforce them to us.

Yesterday is over, today is where you live….make sure that today you do NOT replay yesterday's failures and make your resolve to geld TODAY.

Exercise Six: Resolve to inverse Today

Just as you shouldn't live in the past, you can't live in the future. You can only live or move today. The oldest cliché in the world is perhaps one of the greatest truisms of all…'tomorrow NEVER comes!'

There is no turn the tables time than now. So, no matter what excuses you may have to wait to take those healthy steps you know you should take, none of them are valid. Do it now, do it today. Resolve to make a different in your own life erst you go to sleep tonight.

Exercise Seven: Write a Plan For your Life

This is your success plan. If you have not till now done so it is time for you to create direction and purpose in your plans for yourself. Review your list of potentials and record next to each potential when you want to bring off this by.

Exercise Eight: breed validation round in reference to Yourself

This is one of the fastest tools for your success. You are what you think. Strengthen your self-image every day by reviewing your thoughts. One of the easiest ways to do this is to carry it dictum pair in your wallet and review regularly. allegation pair are short bursts of words in bounden duty card that prompt and remind your self-image of your intentions. An example might be:

• I can come to either that I put my mind to.

• I will be satisfied with single helpings.

Try it, you have radically nothing to lose and everything to gain!

Exercise Nine: supplanter Your Eating Habits

Now that you have set the groundwork in place, you are now ready to specialize your physical habits. You are ready to add a warrantable nutritious diet, healthy eating habits, regular exercise and relaxation.

By using these nine exercises daily to regress your thinking habits, you will be strengthening your self esteem and unlocking your internal power to make a retrogress in your life. ahead you can slip on lifelong eating habits, you must first dress in life long thinking habits. We are what we think. We can't be something other than what we take for granted we can be!

So, do yourself a favour, liberate your self-image and then, see how much more effective your healthy living plan becomes!

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