The Secret to Weight Loss is Love Yourself As You Are Today
Many people ask us what the secret of losing weight and keeping it off is. The one thing we know for sure is: Love yourself exactly as you are here and now. In other words, love who you are today with your excess weight, with your lack of success, with your disappointment from being a disappointment for others.
Do it in the here and now; otherwise you will be unable to attract the self-confidence, approval, and self-love you require for the success of the process. If you possess a lack of self-worth, or feel shameful, or feel that you are a failure, these things will be central to defining your life.
When asking people what their motivation is to lose weight, we have received a variety of answers. The most prominent answer among them was to improve the way they feel about themselves. They all expressed a desire for their loved ones to also view them in this light and feel good being around them. It means that once we start to feel better about ourselves, we want to share it with others. So why not start right here and now?
If you want to feel beautiful and increase your self-image—get started. Why wait?
If your answer to the question above is, “I am overweight and frustrated and will never be able to experience positive things,” think again. It means that you believe that being overweight is the source of all your troubles. Is that really true? And is losing weight really the solution to all of your troubles? Do you really believe that all thin people love themselves and have high self-esteem? Do they alone hold the key to happiness? Of course not all of them—only those who feel good about all aspects of their life. Self love and confidence come from within and not as a result to external circumstances, such as weight. Start loving who you are right now and your weight will follow.
Do you really believe that if you were thin you would possess total happiness? If you were thin but lost all the good you have currently in your life (i.e. eyesight, family, job, etc), would you really be happy? Happiness is an emotion generated from your innermost being. You have the power to determine your identity and how you feel towards it, no matter what circumstances you face. If, like Barry Kaufman, a man whose son was diagnosed with autism, chose happiness, you can too.
Don’t ever forget how amazing and fascinating you are! There is no one in the world like you. No one can bring to the world what you can. You are one of a kind. Along with the negative characteristics you possess (or think you possess), be assured that you also have extremely positive ones. Allow them the distinguished place of honor and attention they deserve in your life and start truly loving yourself as you are now.
The day your love for yourself increases is the day you will find yourself taking giant steps toward liberating yourself from food. Not only will you be a “thinking-thin” person, but you will also turn into a much happier and content person.
Remind yourself every day that you’re amazing! Adopt these phrases as mantras and repeat them over and over again:
“I’m amazing”
“I’m wonderful.”
“I’m healthy and happy.”
During difficult times, remember to be thankful for what you have right now. Remember that the negative thoughts controlling your conscious mind aren’t really yours. These thoughts infiltrate from your surroundings and from the people who you were exposed to and who have influenced you throughout your life. Choose differently!
When you have the courage to choose to accept and see your inherent beauty, everybody else will follow.
To Your Success,
Adi & Nehama
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
Think Your Way Thin Webinar
Being Grateful Is A Catalyst For Weight Loss
Much has been said about gratitude. Many self-help books discuss this issue and its importance. Why do you suppose they all deal with gratitude? What does gratitude possess that all the self-help books suggest it?
By gratitude we mean the heightened feeling of being blessed in your life, not the automatic “thanks” you use in certain situations to be polite. It’s the same feeling that causes your heart to skip a beat, or overwhelms you with an enormously positive sensation.
Many people believe that if they express thanks for their present situation, they will never want to change and will soon find they are overweight again. Expressing gratitude for the life you have does not mean giving up on obtaining a desired weight. For all intents and purposes this does not weaken purpose, but indeed, it compliments it!
In loving what you have in the here and now and in expressing thanks for the good things in your life, you are actually establishing a positive catalyst for embarking on much-needed change. This is not giving up by any means! On the contrary, it is a better starting point to attain renewed self-love. We actually claim that a lack of self-love ultimately leads to overweight.
This principle suits any change you wish to make in your life. For this example we will talk about your body. First, you should thank your body for taking you from one place to another, for being there with you even when you don’t take care of it, for being in the weight and shape it is and not worse. It is true that your body is not as you want it to look, but only after showing gratitude for the joy it gave, you are truly able to move on to your new perfect body. Just because you want to replace it with a newer shape and weight does not necessarily mean you are ungrateful. What would happen if you weighed 20 lbs more? What if you were incapable of moving because of sickness? Couldn’t your situation be worse than now?
Appreciate it, thank it and ask for something better. As a dear friend of ours, Steve D’Annunzio, says, “I thank my body for what it gives me in my life here and now and nevertheless I prefer a good looking healthy body.”
To Your Success,
Adi & Nehama
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
Think Your Way Thin Webinar
Look Good and Then Lose Weight
You have been thinking about starting a diet for weeks now. You have considered the Atkins diet, Weight Watchers, a no-carb diet and never decided which one is the right one for you.
Then one day you see your reflection in the mirror and terrified by what you see you make your mind up to start the diet tomorrow.
You are convinced that you need to look bad in order to stay on a diet. Well, did looking bad help you before or for that matter diet and lose weight?
Probably not, otherwise you would have lost those extra pounds by now.
The point is that looking bad and wearing clothes that make you look worse is what is driving you to eat.
You ask how does that happen? Well, it is Subconscious Negative Reinforcement.
People on a diet are all too familiar with the sentence: First I will lose a few pounds and then I will buy myself some new clothes.
But how does that work for us if we have been overweight for years?
The point is that when our closet is filled with clothes that look like rags we wear them and we look bad. That makes us feel insecure about ourselves and we compensate ourselves with food.
Your subconscious is exposed and moreover vulnerable to your appearance and self-image reinforcing the reality of the way you look.
To start looking better and lose weight we need to modify the subconscious image, your self-image, perceived in the mirror.
To do that:
Go through your closet and take out all the clothes that look bad on you and put them away. You don’t want to give yourself any opportunity to look bad.
Make a decision to look better all day. In the morning make a little effort and put on some make-up, lipstick, do your hair. It only takes a short time and the effect is amazing and worth it
You will immediately start looking good and attracting into your life more of the same, in addition to having pleasant feelings.
You deserve to feel good about the way you look right now. There is no need to delay. This is the key to looking better in the future and of course to lose weight and be triumphant.
To Your Success,
Adi & Nehama
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
Think Your Way Thin Webinar
Can Losing Weight Be Easy and Fun?
To all the people who have been dealing with being overweight for so many years it sounds almost impossible doesn’t it? Losing weight, having fun & being healthy.
For example, a person on a diet has already tried the Cabbage Soup Diet, Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers, and read every book in existence on dieting. They have been dieting and struggling with eating habits for most of their life.
This person can tell us about an endless war with food, their habits, the anger and frustration of breaking a diet, complete with all the disappointment and despair.
Believe me, if there was a better way, they would do it.
Well, we know they would have done it if only they knew how to lose weight easily and have fun at the same time. The point is that this seems too good to be true. Is there such an animal?
Some people, when being introduced to this way of dieting for the first time are skeptic. Still we see a speck of hope in their eyes wanting to believe it is possible.
Our own experience and the results our student’s have had prove that it does work.
The common approach towards weight loss and diets is suppressing our appetite. We try to restrain our urge to eat, our appetite, limit our eating, and judge ourselves brutally.
To all the people who have lost a few pounds and gained it back using this approach within less than a year over a period of few months; it’s time to see that:
Struggle and suppression is not a good strategy. Even when the result of the war is losing weight over a period of time, the achievement will fade away.
Why? Because war and fighting are tiring and eventually you feel weak and small.
The point is to be thinner and still feel strong and empowered.
You cannot achieve a real change in your appearance without altering your inner processes and thinking patterns. One of the most important changes is to become empowered, start believing in you and acknowledge your amazing gifts as you are right now.
When you look within and discover the thoughts, beliefs, and habits that are responsible for your current weight and weaknesses, change them from the inside and do it guided by peace and effortlessly. Then and only then the change will last.
The fact that this process is done with peace and empowerment gives you the strength to maintain your new self and the changes you made to better all aspects of your life.
Still don’t believe it’s possible to lose weight easily and having fun doing it?
Try it!!!! What’s the worse that can happen to you?
A Healthy Weight Loss? You May Succeed?
To get information on how to do it, please keep reading our blog.
To the new successful and powerful — YOU.
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
Think Your Way Thin Webinar