Wouldn't it be great if losing weight was as simple as just wanting it to 'happen'? Unfortunately it's not as simple as wanting it to happen. If you want to maintain a healthy weight, you need do a bit more than just want it. You must want it bad enough to do something about it. Throughout the years I have had many conversations with people about hypnotherapy and how it can help people. Since many people associate hypnotherapy with losing weight and smoking, these conversations produce some very interesting insights.
For example, some people say to me: 'Oh Sonia, believe me; I really WANT to lose this weight...I have tried absolutely everything in the past'. It is usually at this point the 'buts' come into the conversation. 'But' language is insidious; it says 'I do not have a choice. I am not in control'. When you use 'but' language, you are giving away all of your personal power. So how do you know when you have a case of the 'buts'? Here are some really common signs:
* 'I want to lose weight but I have no willpower';
* 'I want to lose weight but I don't have time to exercise';
* 'I want to lose weight but I can't seem to walk past the chocolate aisle in the supermarket';
....and so the list goes on. And no, I don't always jump to the conclusion that these 'buts' are just excuses. I genuinely believe that the people I talk to actually feel they are powerless. I also know something that these people probably don't know: they are slaves to their own negative beliefs. That is, they have not yet been show how to use their minds to create what they want. They continue to focus on what they don't want and as a result, they get more of the same; more disempowerment; more disappointment; more 'blah'.
But what they don't know is that it doesn't have to be that way. Do YOU have a case of the 'buts'? If so, write them down on a piece of paper. This is probably the most constructive thing you could do for yourself, because as you do this, you will reveal to yourself your own negative beliefs; that is the beliefs that have created your current circumstances; the beliefs that have created your current weight!
It is only necessary to want to do something and to know how to do it in order to be able to do it. So maintaining a healthy weight is about wanting it badly enough; wanting it enough to make time for physical exercise; wanting it enough to pass by the chocolate aisle at the supermarket. If you are having trouble losing weight, ask yourself: 'How badly do I want this?' Perhaps you don't really want it at all. Perhaps someone else wants it for you and you don't really want it yourself. Or maybe you're so terrified of failing you simply can't get started.
But getting started so very important! On the other hand if doing it all at once is too overwhelming for you, why not start small? Take an apple into work for morning tea rather than buying a donut. Have a skinny cappuccino instead of a full-fat one. Every little bit counts. 'Anna' did exactly this. She was so morbidly obese that making huge changes was far to overwhelming for her. So she started small. She had half a donut with morning tea instead of a whole donut. She ate fresh vegetables with her meal instead of rice or pasta. That way, she didn't feel as though she was depriving herself; and yes, she DID lose weight!
One of my clients said to me: 'Sonia, I have been skinny all my life. I just want to lose a couple of kilos off my stomach. Why is this so difficult for me this time?' After we reviewed his existing diet we found lots of little ways for him to cut down on his calorie intake. We started off with the cups of coffee. When we added it up we discovered that 'Laurie' was consuming 6 cups of coffee each day, each with a whopping 3 teaspoons of sugar!!! Can you imagine how thrilled he was to find that by making a few adjustments here and there he was able to shift the weight within a month despite having tried and failed for the past two years? 'Laurie' took control, and he did it by starting small.
If you want to lose weight and keep it off, start small and build up your 'success muscles'. The most important thing is to do something different; anything different. As you do this, you begin to say 'no more ifs or buts'; you will surprise yourself at how successful you can be. So congratulations in advance!
Out The Front Automatic Knives
The internet is filled with information and every second of every hour of every day, new information is being poured into the forever-growing network. Whether the source can be from a research scientist involved in finding some new breakthrough discovery to a young child in her school's computer lab, information can be inputted by just about anyone who has the basic know-how of how to use the computer. However the internet is filled with all kinds of information. From facts and truths to rumors and lies, all kind of data is being inputted into the network.
For a student trying to write an extensive research paper of some random peculiar topic this turns out to be a disaster since now the internet is one of the most commonly used mediums of research. Be it for a research paper for your stringent professor, a report for your ambitious employer, or even a presentation for a committee, with rumors and lies floating about in the internet it will be difficult to extract only the truths to your target audience. However there are a few methods that you can use and as well as help from others that can help you with this tedious task.
The most common method to help you find out if the information that you hold is a fact rather than some made up rumor by an ominous person holding a grudge or maybe it was done completely by accident by a misinformed student or even something that started as a harmless joke by a person who was looking for a good laugh, is the use of cross referencing. Cross referencing is the first defense for a researcher to weed out the rumors and lies in their internet research. However it is not entirely fool proof as it may seem.
Cross referencing relies on the basis that if enough people believe that if a certain data is the truth then the so called data in question must be a fact. But using this basis today with the knowledge of how it turned out for our ancestors, we know for a fact that this is a rather foolish method to apply to when trying to find out whether if something is a lie or a truth. With the biggest example of how people blindly believed that the world was flat rather than round even though it was proven before them that the world was round by the use of mathematical calculations and scientific observations; because more people believed that the world was flat it was therefore concluded that the world must be flat.
Another method within cross referencing you can use to further purify your data is by cross referencing your information through different mediums such as print. Again this can only help with the process of filtering your data and is not foolproof. Nothing can completely remove the information you find on the internet but it is much more work for a person to put their rather poorly researched material onto print as it costs money as to putting false information on the internet is free.
However the best method you can probably use is your own judgment to see whether or not the information that you found is some random rumor or a fact.
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