Decide to Lose Weight and Be Healthy
How many times have you decided to start a new diet? Whatever diet that was (Low Carb Diet, Mediterranean Diet, South Beach, Cabbage Soup Diet, Protein Diet, Liquid Diet, etc.), did you manage to stick with it?
Let’s talk about deciding to diet.
The word decision comes from two Latin words.
“De” –meaning “from”, and “Ceadere” - meaning “to cut”. This is when you make a decision to do something (in this case starting a diet) and at that very moment any other option is not even considered. Even if we meet difficulties staying on the diet we have no choice but to carry on.
When we start a new diet every week we are not making a decision to diet we are only making a wish to lose weight. The problem is that your subconscious receives the message that you are not serious about dieting. Thus the diet never works.
When do decisions regarding diets actually work?
When people experience a trauma such as an illness, or when they lose someone close to them due to being overweight, they are more motivated to totally change their habits and suddenly it seems that following a diet is easy. They discover that they don’t have “to go on a diet” every other day and most likely will begin to live their life differently.
How can you follow your diet program without difficulty?
There are two major elements to be aware of about your decision to diet:
One: Having an important reason to diet helps keep you committed to the task and the diet is transformed into a healthy life style.
Ask yourself: What are your reasons for losing weight? Is it your health, or maybe your children, or your desire to be attractive to someone, or feel great about yourself? Maybe you want to be able to go to the beach without feeling ashamed of your body? What if you promised your loved ones or yourself to lose weight for these reasons? What are the odds you will succeed this time?
Two: The role your subconscious has on the success of your diet program.
If you have decided to diet many times before and failed, your subconscious will invariably fail you again. This pattern of deciding to start a diet and failing to follow it becomes a habit and your subconscious identifies it as such.
Following the same approach you will unconsciously fail your diet.
What you need to do.
Change the way you make decisions regarding diets.
The subconscious mind needs new programming regarding your decision to diet. It’s about time you stick to your decision to diet. To do that, decide to diet one day at a time.
Yes, every day, when you wake up, decide if you want to diet today. If so declare your decision to diet by saying out loud to yourself: “Today I promise myself and the people I care for, to keep my diet, to be healthy, happy and powerful. I will stick to my decision to diet all day. Tomorrow I will decide again.”
The decision to diet for one day at a time is much easier to follow. Your subconscious now sees that you stick to your decisions and promises about dieting and weight lose becomes natural.
Promising yourself and others to follow your diet today makes your commitment to your diet stronger.
Even if one day a week you decide not to diet remember that all together you managed to keep your diet 88% of the month! It is better than nothing!
Another very important decision we recommend is this:
I promise to love and respect myself no matter how I look, to see all the good in me and make it stronger and better.
Gratefully yours,
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind: The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-Development Speakers and Mentors
