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
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
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
Proof: Why Stressing Out Makes You Gain Weight!
Have you heard about Cortisol?
Well, in our body there is a steroid hormone called Cortisol. It is known as the “stress-hormone” due to the simple fact that the level of Cortisol in our body rises when we get stressed.
Now why should this even interest us? Aren’t we talking about easy and fun diets?
Well, it is really important to know that when the Cortisol level in our body starts to rise the body reacts by raising the blood sugar level releasing fatty acids so that the muscles will have enough energy to operate and survive. It means that if you eat while you are stressed you are going to gain weight.
What actually happens is that when we are stressed the body reacts as if we have just fallen into a deep pit and we may be stuck there for 3 days. This bodily mechanism saves your life by “conserving” the necessary things it needs which is sugar, fat and more.
But the problems start when we are stressed as the Cortisol level increases and we are in very close proximity to our kitchen.
Our body can’t tell the difference between small meals (even if we are on a diet and hardly eat a thing) or regular big meals. While we are stressed our body reacts the same way to anything we eat conserving it and that is when we start to gain weight.
So, if you are for example, on the cabbage diet and all you eat is cabbage soup and you are stressed during the day, it is equivalent to eating 3 full meals. Your body will store anything you eat and you will be over weight, or at least will not lose weight.
But you may say: “When I eat I am not stressed at all. I love eating so much that it makes me feel so good”. If that is the case, great! But the most important thing is to stay calm after you eat!
If I just finished a nice juicy burger with some fries and a coke and by the time I got back to the car I realized that it was a big mistake, I will be stressed. My body will immediately react to that thought, it will raise the Cortisol level and I will start gaining weight and fat.
If you have already eaten that meal be happy about it, and forget it!
Remind yourself that you deserve a medal for not taking the big size ice-cream sundae you really wanted. And you know you could eat it all!
Celebrate your success.
Forget those things that make you feel bad.
Oh, yes – One important thing to mention:
Being stressed about ANYTHING will make you gain weight.
Let’s say that you are stuck in traffic and you think that there is no chance to get where you’re going on time and you start to get stressed. STOP! It is not helping you lose weight. By being stressed you won’t make the traffic go away, true? So why gain weight due to that too? Turn on your radio and listen to music that you love, call someone that you love talking to, sing a song –Do what makes you feel good.
This also includes fighting with your spouse and kids, being angry at your boss, and especially being upset from looking in the mirror.
It may sound weird, but only when you’ll be able to look at yourself in the mirror with only good thoughts will you be able to lose weight. Try thinking positively: “I love myself just as I am.” Or how about: “I promise myself that I’ll get thinner everyday and I can feel it starting to happen already.”
Allow yourself to love your reflection right now!
It doesn’t mean that you are giving up on losing weight – on the contrary!
Only when you are able to look at yourself with love, your body will not rise the Cortisol level and it will keep on doing what it does best. So, take good care of your health, and help yourself reach your healthy weight!
If you found this information useful and you would like to learn more to be able to see the same results our past students have, feel free to join us in our online live webinar by going here.
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