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
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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
How Can Your Subconscious Self-Image and the Law of Attraction Help You Lose Weight Fast and Keep You Healthy?
What does self-image have to do with weight loss? What role does the subconscious play?
How can your self-image affect your success in following your diet?
In our subconscious mind we all have a particular self-image. It may be an image of a fat person that needs to lose weight fast, or of an unsuccessful person, or maybe a very attractive confident one.
That image has a representation attached to it, a picture that pops-up in our minds whenever we say the word “I”. The picture that appears to us in our minds does not necessarily equal reality. It actually matches the belief we have about who we are in our deepest subconscious.
If you have an image of a ‘fat’ you running through your head, how would you attract the desired ‘thin’ you, into your life? That image in our mind of the way we look, weight and external appearance determine what we project into the world.
Research shows that 80% of our behavior is affected by our subconscious. And that, together with our belief system, determines our results.
If you perceive of yourself as fat in your subconscious, the law of attraction will attract into your life that fat image time and again.
Changing the personal image you have of yourself to an image of a thin, healthy successful one, will help you become healthy and reach the weight you really want fast.
The change has to begin in your subconscious.
The next story will emphasize this point.
One of our students started applying what she learned by using our weight loss method and started losing weight.
Still her self-image of a thin attractive woman was not fixed in her subconscious just yet.
After losing 10 pounds she realized that she was not able to keep her diet any more. She even started seeing her real reflection not as it was. “I don’t feel like this is my reflection, it’s someone else’s. I look in the mirror and I see a fat distorted image staring back at me, even though I know that I lost weight.”
What actually happened is that her reflection in the mirror started changing into a thinner one, while her subconscious mind still held the image of a fat person.
Our subconscious doesn’t like changes. Whenever reality starts to change the subconscious panics and loosing the identity it was accustomed to. Actually, it can’t recognize the new person reflected in the mirror, unless the real picture is in harmony with the picture the subconscious holds.
So, in this case her subconscious started working on getting her back to the old ‘fat’ image.
We started working on changing the image in her subconscious by using affirmations, a vision board, and by changing her limiting beliefs in her subconscious. All of these are tools you can learn from our book, “Why Am I Not Thin Yet” and in our free newsletter at www.WhyAmINotThinYet.com
Now the self-image she has firmly implanted in her subconscious was of a healthy, appreciated, attractive, thin woman.
From that moment on, weight loss became effortless and she enjoyed looking at her reflection even before the change was complete.
Now, what image do you hold in your subconscious?
Is it of a successful, attractive self-confident person, or is it of an unworthy, fat, no good person?
If you want to succeed in losing weight and maintain the change in you, you have to start with changing the self-image in your subconscious mind into a successful, healthy, and happy, worthy person.
This image will help you lose weight faster and easily keep it off for good.
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
Think Your Way Thin Webinar