Weight Loss Mindset

Food has become quite problematic in many people’s lives.

That's quite ridiculous when you consider food is a necessity for survival.

I hope you learn to control your binge-eating quickly so you can start living a healthy, full life.

This is not really about food, though. It's about the types of foods we have available to us in our modern world. When it comes to binge eating, addictive man-made foods affect us in terrible ways. They cause us to drastically overeat, not because our bodies need that kind of food, but because we force our bodies to become hooked on it.

Eating disorders, like bulimia, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating, are often life-threatening, serious conditions that affect not only a person’s physical health but also their emotional and mental health.

It's all because of an addiction to the dopamine--the “feel good” hormone released in the reward center of the brain. An addiction that's just as powerful as being addicted to alcohol or drugs.

What exactly is binge eating?

Binge eating is the most common of all eating disorders which affects people, regardless of age, gender or race. Characterized by eating an excess of food and frequently beyond the point of fullness. It's a psychological illness that acts as a diversion for avoiding the real root of our problems, such as fear of rejection or failure, depression, anxiety, or guilt. It's a recurring issue that leads to serious health issues if not resolved early enough.

What ways can binge eating be treated?

Recent studies have proven that those seeking treatment respond well and improve considerably. Conquering it may be a daily endeavor, but with these tips, you can regain control of your eating and life.

1. Have courage to face it.

2. Evaluate the purpose of your excessive eating.

3. Don’t diet.

4. Seek help from professionals.

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Being more in tune with your body will help you with losing weight.

Your body would really prefer not to be sick and overweight. But often we impose our will on it.

We need to learn to work with the body, not against it.

Successfully losing weight and keeping it off, isn't about following some crazy, strict list of rules. It's definitely not about depriving yourself of food. It's about listening to what your body and mind are telling you.

Your body knows how to survive if given a chance

This fact will probably be difficult to accept because diet commercials and so-called experts keep telling you differently. But the truth is your body knows exactly what it needs to be healthy. You just have to learn to listen to its signals, not your cravings.

If you want to lose weight, listen to your body

When you learn to listen to your body, you've got to ignore the food signals and cravings that come from your mind. Suppress those emotional eating signals that tell you to eat so you'll feel better. You need to put this little rational thought buffer between the idea and the action. Just enough time to think about what you're about to do.

Learn to recognize the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger. Don't listen to the cravings of your emotional brain, listen to your physical body.

Final thoughts

Learning to listen to your body means sharpening your intuition for your physical needs rather than your mental or emotional ones. 

It means listening to other signals and paying attention to the parts of your body that know best what you really need to be healthy. 

You can enhance your intuition by listening for the right signals about what you're really hungry for.

Negative emotions interfere with your weight loss efforts.

Reaching for comfort foods when you feel down isn't the answer.

You need good methods to deal with your out-of-control emotions if you're serious about losing weight.

These seven strategies will help you deal with negative emotions and help you take control of your mental health.

1 - Identifying and naming your emotions

2 - Use a journal for expressing your true feeling

3 - Sharing your feelings with a friend you trust

4 - Stop thinking so narrow and look at the big picture

5 - Try breathing techniques to help relax

6 - Use your imagination to create positive experiences

7 - Toss out those negative emotions

These are just some ways to deal with stressful, difficult emotions, but there are dozens of other ways you could find healing and a way to get through your negative experiences. 

Like I said before, be creative and think of ways that suit you. Change these methods to what works for you. Mix-and-match them to your heart's content. After all, the point is finding what makes you stronger and more capable of facing your fears.

While you may know by now that it’s not as easy as it sounds, all you need is to take that first, single step. You'll become more resilient and better at finding healthier, more constructive ways to cope with your difficult emotions.

Heartfelt motivation is so much more powerful than head-based motivation.

You need to take a closer look at the emotions that are driving you to put on weight.

Just thinking about it, won't cut it!

If you're following your head when it comes to weight loss, then you'd follow a very logical approach of eating this and not that, exercising this way and not that way, drinking this and not that, and boom… you’d drop all the weight you could ever need to lose. But we all know that's simply a fantasy, right? Weight loss is not about logic. It's about your emotions.

Let's look at motivation

When it comes to losing weight or accomplishing any goal that requires changing ingrained habits, what's more important than your amount of motivation is the source of your motivation.

You need to truly understand exactly why you want to lose weight

When it comes to losing weight, you must, discover your real motivation for deciding that you need to change your life. Start by asking yourself a straightforward question. “If I could do anything in my life, what would I want to accomplish?” Then, ask yourself the same question about your health. “If I could do anything for my health, what would I want to accomplish?”

Use powerful, heartfelt affirmations to support you

Affirmations are positive statements that help to strengthen your mindset to get what you want.

Check out my other podcast #88 - How To Use Weight loss Affirmations The Right Way. This will teach you how to formulate affirmations correctly. They need to be done right!

Don't underestimate the power of your emotions and the power of your mind. The ONLY reasons you'll fail is if you give up too soon or you don't even start.

It's true we're creatures of habit.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

We just need to learn to work with our innate ability to create habits that work for us, rather than against us.

Are you ready to break the yo-yo dieting cycle and lose that weight for good? Then it's time you focused on developing new habits and routines that are related to your health.

What's so important about forming habits?

Losing weight isn't just about the food you eat

You really must develop the courage to break old habits & patterns

Remember that setting habits that last a lifetime are your greatest asset in not only losing weight but also keeping it off.

Making the decision to live a healthy lifestyle complete with a nourishing diet is easy to do. 

The hard part is living it out and making the decision daily to take good care of yourself and your body. 

By practicing Mindfulness, you can improve your diet, and stay on track with your weight loss goals.

What Is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the practice of bringing your awareness to the present moment and being fully present in that space. It is easy to learn and can be done by anyone at any time. Mindfulness has been scientifically proven to reduce stress, anxiety, depression and promote overall happiness. The practice of mindfulness is something that can be done at any time and in any place by simply bringing your awareness to the present moment.

How Do You Meditate With Mindfulness?

Meditation may sound intimidating or like something you don't have the time or focus to do, but Mindfulness is something anyone can practice, no matter where they are physically, or where they are with themselves.

To Practice Mindfulness, You Can Follow These Steps:

1 - Get into a comfortable position where you can sit quietly for 5-10 minutes without distractions. 

2 - Close your eyes and take deep, cleansing breaths through your nose. 

3 - Focus on your breathing and notice the rise and fall of your chest and belly with each breath. Experiment with breathing in and out through your nose and mouth and through your nose only.

4 - Notice any thoughts and feelings that arise without getting involved in them, trying to stop them or judging them.

5 - Continue to focus on your breathing and your thoughts and feelings for a few moments longer before opening your eyes and returning to the task at hand. 

How Can Mindfulness Help Improve Your Diet?

Practicing mindfulness on a regular basis will help you improve your relationship with food, your nutrition and your healthy weight goals. By being more mindful of your eating habits, you will be able to identify mindless eating more quickly and recognize when you are truly hungry and ready to eat rather than eat because you feel bored or stressed.

Mindfulness Releases Tension And Relieves Anxiety

It Helps You Learn To Appreciate Everything You Do Have

Engages And Focuses Your Mind And Increases Body Awareness

Mindfulness Can Help You Overcome Binge-Eating Habits

Creates Acceptance Of Who You Are Now, And Inspires The Journey Of Where You Want To Go

Practicing Mindfulness can help you become more aware of your eating patterns so that you are able to recognize when you are eating mindlessly and when you are truly hungry and ready to eat. 

It can also help you learn to pay more attention to your body and how it feels when you eat certain foods or eat more than is healthy for you. It helps you balance and accept yourself, your thoughts, and to be aware of your body in the moment.

Being mindful of your mind, body, and self as one can be very powerful in helping you achieve a healthy balanced life, and diet.

Emotional eating can be so destructive to your weight loss goals.

When we're in that frenzied moment we feel so helpless, right?

The only way to beat it is to create a resilient mindset so we don't get stuck in guilt.

Emotional eating is one of the biggest factors leading to weight gain. Eating out of stress or boredom instead of hunger has become very common in today's culture. If we’re bored, tired, mad, sad, or elated we celebrate with food. We tend to overeat.

Most often, these celebrations cause us to eat even when we're not hungry. If you find yourself eating for comfort instead of hunger here are 5 steps you can take to avoid emotional eating.

1 - Decide that it’s OK to be uncomfortable

One of the reasons that people eat when they’re emotional is because they're uncomfortable. Uncomfortable emotions like anxiety, fear, anger, and boredom often lead people to eat when they are not actually hungry. 

2 - Try the broccoli test before caving to cravings

One of the hardest things for people who emotionally eat is to learn whether or not they're eating because they're hungry or because they're emotional. The cues to the body are almost identical in people who have spent long periods of time eating to cope with negative emotions. 

3 - Get busy doing things and learn to enjoy every moment

One of the strongest eating responses comes when boredom strikes. People find themselves reaching for food for any number of mind-numbing reasons. 

4 - Keep track of your eating patterns with a food journal

When emotional eating is a problem, maintaining a food journal isn’t just about logging the foods you eat. It’s about keeping a record of how you felt and what was going on at the time you were eating. 

5 - Build resilience so you don't get stuck in noise. Learn to let go

The final step in coping with emotional eating is to build resilience. If you build emotional toughness, it will help you not only with emotional eating but also with all other areas of your life. 

Some things you can do are stop dramatizing, get perspective, and recharge. All of these can be great tools when it comes to building up your ability to bounce back from setbacks.

What works best for you? 

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It's hard to keep yourself motivated to lose weight.

Small setbacks can have a big effect and make us give up on our goals.

You first need to get your mind right to stay on track.

You can do it! We all can do it! Let's get it done!

Is it possible to find enough will and motivation to lose weight?

What do you do to keep yourself motivated?

What more could you do to keep yourself moving toward your goal?

Finding the will to commit to a weight loss plan requires a considerable degree of confidence and commitment. People who have never had to worry about their weight can't imagine what it's like.

Sometimes you need a little help finding your motivation to stay on your weight loss journey. Here are a few simple tips for you to consider.

Ask yourself "Why do I want to lose weight?"

Ask yourself this question and really think about it. Answer it honestly from the heart, "Why do I want to lose weight?" Why am I putting myself through the agony of trying to lose weight?

Here's a key tip: Heartfelt motivation is so much more powerful than head-based motivation.

Making your weight loss plan the highest priority

This is so important. If you keep putting off the things you must do to be successful, you'll never reach your goals. You'll never feel good about your body. That's the painful truth. Decide now to make losing weight and everything that entails, your highest priority.

Don't get yourself worked up over small obstacles

Your weight loss path is a super important undertaking. You have a lot to learn about what is contributing to your body's weight gain. It's important to know and will give you great success in achieving your weight loss goals. 

If you use these three simple tips to help you find your motivation, it'll definitely help you to lose weight. 

Just remember, take it easy on yourself but make plans now to commit to the process.

It sometimes seems like there's an invisible force stopping us from reaching our weight loss goals, doesn't it? 

There is! It's our own minds and bodies, and they're sabotaging your efforts to lose weight. 

That doesn't mean your mind and body intentionally want to harm you. 

Craving is the body helping you survive. Or so it believes!

Losing weight isn't an easy adventure. When you first decide you'll lose some weight, you really want to do everything possible to be successful. Some take the steps to prepare their kitchen by getting rid of junk foods, they might give up eating out for the first month, and others instantly give up consuming sodas and bread.

There isn't a single path to effectively losing weight, but there are a number of things you can do unknowingly to derail your own weight loss plans. 

Not sure if you are the one causing difficulties attaining your weight loss goals?

Here are eight things you might be doing to sabotage your weight loss plans.

1 - Out Of Control Stress Levels

2 - Out Of Control Eating Habits

3 - Succumbing To Cravings

4 - Not Getting Enough Quality Sleep

5 - You're Not Getting Enough Exercise

6 - Eating Too Late At Night

7 - Not Consuming Enough Protein Or Healthy Fats

8 - You're Not Drinking The Right Amount of Water

These are just eight things you might be doing to sabotage your weight loss plans. If one or more of these sabotaging acts applies to your lifestyle, take steps today to slowly make a change to your actions and keep an eye out for better results.

More importantly, though, be kind to yourself no matter what!

Are you thinking of using keto for weight loss? 

If you want to lose weight fast, the keto diet might be just what you're looking for. 

This low-carb, high-fat diet is becoming increasingly popular because it allows for quick and sustainable weight loss. 

But how does the keto diet work? And is it right for you? 

In this episode, we explain the basics of the keto diet and show you how to use it for weight loss. We also go over the possible pros and cons of this popular diet plan. So keep listening to learn more about the keto diet and decide if it's right for you!

1. What's Keto and how does it work for weight loss?

2. How do I start the keto diet to get fast results?

3. Foods you should eat on the keto diet

4. Foods you should avoid on the keto diet

5. 7 Day keto meal plan

6. Keto tips for success

I've received many questions about how to use the keto diet for weight loss. Does the keto diet help you lose weight? The answer is yes! The ketogenic diet is a great way to lose weight quickly and efficiently. But like any other diet, it takes some time to get used to, and there are a few things you need to know in order to be successful. 

Here are six keto tips for losing weight:

There's more to success on the keto diet than just cutting out carbs. 

1 - It's important to make sure you're eating enough fat. Although it may seem counterintuitive, fat is essential to the ketogenic diet. Not only does it provide energy, but it also keeps you satiated and can even help you lose weight. 

2 - Make sure you drink plenty of fluids and have an adequate supply of electrolytes. When you cut back on carbohydrates, your body can lose electrolytes through your urine. To prevent this, drink plenty of fluids and eat foods high in electrolytes such as salt, potassium and magnesium.

3 - Be patient. It may take some time to get used to the keto diet, but once you find your rhythm, you'll probably see results quickly. The keto diet is a great way to lose weight quickly and efficiently. 

4 - Get enough sleep: Sleep is important for both physical and mental health, but especially so on the keto diet. If you're sleep deprived, your body will have trouble converting fat into energy, which can make it harder to lose weight. Aim for seven to eight hours of sleep per night.

5 - Eat plenty of protein. Protein is important to maintain muscle mass and prevent muscle loss on a keto diet. Try to eat at least 20 grams of protein per day.

6 - Make sure you maintain the right macros. The keto diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet. To ensure a successful keto diet, you must calculate your macros and follow them exactly.

To summarize:

The keto diet is a great way to lose weight quickly and efficiently. However, it's important to remember that there's more to keto diet success than just cutting out carbs. By following these tips, you can ensure your success with the keto diet. 

The ketogenic or keto for weight loss diet is a low-carb, high-fat eating plan. If you stick to it, it can help you lose weight, improve your mental focus, and even prevent chronic diseases.