I Don’t Have Time To Go On A Diet…
Does this sound familiar? I don’t have time to go on a diet! How many times have you thought and said those words to yourself: “I should start a diet, but I don’t really have the extra time for it.”
Now, think about this seriously for a second (If you’ve got one!)…
Does it take more or less time to eat less food?
Of course it takes less… then where is the problem really?
As you must know by now our problems are alive and well in our thoughts. So many people complain that it is too hard to go on a strict diet and go to work-out at the gym 3 times a week, but isn’t it worth the effort?
Sure it is. But again, how do we do that?
Well, changing habits takes between 21-30 days of practicing new action habits on a daily basis. But how will you find the time to go to the gym everyday for the next 30 days???
You don’t have to!
Research shows that by exercising 20 minutes 3 times a week (even a fast walk is enough) you can find activities that you already do daily and just make sure you keep doing them 3 times a week for 20 minutes.
For example:
1. Play ball with your kids.
2. Take a walk with your spouse.
3. Walk to the supermarket (find one that is a 20 minute walk away) and meet your spouse there, do your shopping and drive back.
4. Go on an outing with your children. It will be fun for all. Have some family fun time. Put on some music and jump around or dance together.
5. Find a home exercise tape and do it for 20 minutes.
6. Take the dog for a long brisk walk.
7. Wash your house floor and clean the windows.
8. Walk up and down the stairs for 20 minutes (only if your health allows it).
Be creative! But make sure it happens.
Here are some tips that will help you keep your new habits for 30 days:
1. Write them down on your calendar.
2. Hang them up on your fridge.
3. Ask your family members to help you and monitor yourself.
4. Ask a good friend to join you on the voyage and you can remind each other.
5. Print out: “I practice happily for 20 minutes 3 times a week, have I practiced today?”
Be excited!
Find what you like to do that involves physical exercise and just do more of it.
Remember the research that we mentioned in our book:
Hotel maids who were told that their daily work is going to make them lose weight and lower their blood pressure have seen a remarkable change. All this can be done with no extra work!
So if you tell yourself that only with a little more effort then you used to do – you will lose lots of pounds, this is what will eventually happen!!!
Have Fun!
Nehama and Adi
www.whyaminotthinyet.com
How The Law Of Attraction Can Help You Lose Weight
In your subconscious thoughts every subject you focus on transforms into an image in your mind. For example, when you think of a car usually you don’t see in your minds’ eye the word C-A-R but a picture of a car you know pops into your head. Food is a perfect example of this. Whenever you think about food, your subconscious mind releases an energy frequency and, according to the Law of Attraction, you are attracted to food.
This is precisely the basis for your weakness for food after announcing you are going to start a diet. From that point on, you start to obsess about food, count calories, and let the entire world know about your diet. The only thing left for your subconscious to do is get some food!
How does it work?
The Law of Vibration
Every individual projects energy. This energy is communicated in the human body as feelings. When you experience positive emotional sensations (happiness, joy, fun, pleasure etc.), you emit positive energy. However, when you have negative feelings (remorse, anger, pain, frustration, tension, etc.), you emanate negative energy. This is why you usually can sense the energy when entering an unfamiliar place or meeting new people, whether that energy is joy, anger, boredom, etc. More often than not, you can pick up on the energy that other people emit, which is typically interpreted via body language, a certain pitch of voice, and a general sense of attraction, or lack of attraction toward them.
Your thoughts determine your feelings and your energy frequency is then attuned accordingly. In order to change a frequency that you evaluate as negative and that limits the achievement of your goals, you must change your thoughts until you experience good feelings, and your energy frequency will then be modified appropriately.
Your energy has immense power. This power comes from:
The Law of Attraction
In general, you attract people, situations, experiences, and physical conditions in accordance to the energy you project via sensations generated by your mind and body. Good feelings attract other things that feel good. For instance, try to remember when someone last gave you a compliment. Isn’t it true that the rest of day was much more positive and fun? The energy aroused by the compliment attracted additional positive events and thoughts.
For this reason, you must be exceedingly aware of your thoughts and feelings in order to attract the things you desire. What also helps is:
The Power of Focus
Anything you focus on, positive or negative, happens and/or becomes enlarged. Women who are trying to get pregnant are very sensitive to the pregnant women they see and think that everyone is pregnant except for them.
When someone plans to buy the latest model car, suddenly all they see is that every other car is the same model as the one they want. This power stems from the integration of these three laws.
First, you focus on something, then, you emit a certain energy accompanied by the mindset you have toward it, and finally the Law of Attraction introduces it into your life.
When you focus on something, you infuse it with energy and inspire emotion until it grows and becomes part of your reality–for better or for worse.
Therefore it is better that you focus on your desired END RESULT, i.e. your desired weight, pant size, and the thin feeling when achieving your goal.
This is why people who obsess on food and drink gain weight. Interestingly, it works both if we want food and if we do not want it. As an old Chinese maxim says, “What you resist persists.” This means that everything you resist, through anger and negative energy, will intensify and grow! As long as you fight your weight and appearance you will get fat!
But why?
The focus is directed at food, fat, and external appearance while the feeling attached is extremely negative, and leads to an endless revisiting of negative issues and emotions. This, of course, results in weight gain, or, if all goes well, no more than weight maintenance.
This means that if you want to lose weight you should focus on the final result you want, such as a specific weight and/or an ideal appearance. Stop focusing on food, and instead, start now to focus on your ideal self and begin broadcasting positive energy to your mirror!
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 Webinars
Why Do Diets Fail? Great Tips for Successful Dieting
When so many people know how to lose weight and they can even write a book about it and when there are so many diet options available, why do so few people actually succeed with diets? We’ve asked hundreds of people how is it they don’t get slimmer faster if they know all the latest dieting tips.
Here are a few common responses:
- “I don’t have time for a strict diet program and to cook all that special food.”
- “My will power isn’t strong enough to keep me on my diet.”
- “I hate sports and I love carbs.”
- “Between work and taking care of my kids, I’m just not able to follow a strict diet program.”
- “My weight problem is genetic; I just can’t lose those extra 10 pounds.”
- “I hardly eat and I still can’t lose this extra weight.”
- “I can’t get skinny fast or even slowly.”
Common to all of these statements is the fact that they are all just thoughts. What’s more, they are all limiting thoughts that prevent people from following a diet and achieving their weight loss goals. Despite having opposite intentions, thoughts as “I don’t have time” or “I don’t have strong enough will power” cause you to stop your diet.
Which of the following diets have you tried? Atkins diet? Low Fat diet? Cabbage Soup diet? South Beach diet? Did you lose weight? Did you stay slim, or did it all come back after a while?
Changing your diet (what you eat daily) is not enough. In order to keep your desired weight you must change your thinking and accordingly your eating habits! By fighting what you eat – it can’t last! You must love your new way of life in order for it to continue!
Healthy, productive thoughts motivate us into action. Stressful thoughts (i.e. “I have to stop eating and start exercising”) lead us to non-action, leaving us just as we were before with no considerable change and without the results we desire.
What if there was a practical way for you to achieve weight loss without having negative thoughts? What if you could get out of the diet “war zone” forever and maintain your ideal weight without being at constant battle with yourself? Wouldn’t this be better than what you’ve experienced in the past? We’re betting that you’re answer is an immediate and emphatic “Yes!”
So here are some great weight loss tips:
- Get rid of all the clothes that don’t fit you right now or make you look unattractive. Get dressed like a model everyday no matter what your weight is at the moment. By looking good now, your subconscious will raise your self-esteem and help you keep your diet. Maybe it sounds “unusual”, but only after you try it you’ll understand that it really does work! Try to imagine it now. Every time you open your closet you have great clothes to wear (go get a new outfit that looks great on you now too!)
- Take out one gorgeous pair of pants that is one or two sizes smaller than what your current size is. Hang it where you can see it on a daily basis and PROMISE yourself that you are going to wear it soon! Be happy about it! Be excited about that!
- Find a photo of yourself where you are happy about the way you look (thinner, happier, etc.) Make at least 5 copies of that photo and hang it up all over your house and office. Remind your subconscious the way you want to look!
- Make the new supporting thoughts that are listed below a part of your internal dialogue and life from now on:
“Whenever I walk around the house I lose weight.”
“Every time I look at the mirror I see how good looking I am.”
“Each apple I eat makes me thinner.”
“I lose weight even when I am asleep.”
“I enjoy keeping my diet.”
If you want to learn more tips and techniques that will help you lose weight fast and stay slim forever, you are invited to sign-up for our free newsletter up on the top right, or on: www.WhyAmINotThinYet.com
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