Weight loss for health

A personal support network when losing weight is the best of both worlds: you are able to combine the need for spending time with your family on their terms and having them hold your feet to the fire for keeping or breaking your diet. Yet before you assume that all it takes is the request for a bit of familial help and the conviction that you will welcome correction and perhaps somewhat stern rebuke for failing to make good on your weight loss promises, remember that losing weight with a family scrutinizing your progress can be a double edged sword.

1. Your friends and also your family are a vital part of your personal life. Do not be deceived into thinking that you can handle criticism well when it comes consistently and from all sides; instead remember that while the saying that “behind every great man stands a great woman” may apply to marriage, it may not necessarily pertain to losing weight successfully. Many a personal weight loss plan fails not because the plan is not realistic or the dieter is not committed to the changes required in the daily lifestyle, but there simply was too much accountability coming at the dieter too quickly, and before long food became the one friend who would not judge. In this manner, the personal support network can actually become the dieter’s greatest liability.
2. Setting boundaries is the key to making your weight loss goal known but without jeopardizing your self esteem and respect to you by the family in the process. Failure to clearly define boundaries may put a serious damper on your family interactions, and might actually aggravate deep seated power struggles. To this end it is vital that you start small and assign specific tasks of accountability to specific family members. For example, while your spouse should have the greatest leeway of correcting your actions as pertaining to diet, children should only be put in charge or warning you away from potato chips or obvious diet busters.
3. Remember that you must have signals to make family interactions work. Following the adage that there is a time and a place for everything, losing weight with the help of your family is a personal process that should not be broadcast to others or be made fun of in any manner. In the same vein, family members should know not to question your food choices in front of others, or make you feel less than respected within earshot of other people. Remember that while you do not mind being corrected in private, having the same thing done to you in public most likely is going to create problems.
4. Last but not least, understand that even well defined boundaries require occasional tweaking. As your weight drops, or as you are moving onto a different phase of your diet plan, the odds are good that you need less accountability and more encouragement. Discuss these matters with your family often and early, and you will be rewarded with a great personal support network.

Everyone can succeed at losing weight. Believe it or not, we all have within us the power to make a wealth of health happen. We have been taught or programmed to believe that what we eat is more important than what we think. Before you pick up that donut you first have to think about how good it is going to taste. Yes, you may have a fleeting thought of how bad it is for you but that is quickly erased by the thought of how good it is going to taste. All thought. Thought is an attractant. You bring into your life that which you think. When you are feeling fat you cannot attract slender just as when you feel poor you cannot attract prosperity.

Learn to control your thoughts and you learn to control your weight for ultra health. Your body is absolutely a reflection of what you think. Your body is continually responding to what you think. How many times have you heard a successful person say they saw themselves successful before it happened? They visualized their success first. Everything accomplished in this world is first a thought then a reality.

It’s not about being brave or fearless. It’s about changing how you think about yourself and food. If your belief (thought) is that you cannot control your weight then you will not. Visualize yourself as how you want to be. Take five quiet minutes every day and see yourself as you want to be and slowly your thinking will change on a subconscious level.

Make a decision: I acknowledge that I am as a result of the thoughts I think.

Let feeling good be your most important priority, then whenever you have a thought that is not in harmony with the health you want you will feel bad so you will be alerted to your resistance and then you can choose a better feeling thought that will get you back on track. In other words, ask yourself, if this is not what I want then was is it that I do want?