The law of attraction weight loss strategy involves using your mind. Most of us have a lot of different competing parts to our psyche. One part of us wants to hit the gym and another part of us wants to drink a bottle of wine and eat cake! These competing parts of our mind don’t surface at the same time. At the start of the New Year we might be gunning for the gym and aiming to make it happen and lose that weight. But come Friday and there’s a chance for socialising, we’ll happily knock a few drinks back, forgetting about our best intentions.
The question isn’t whether we want to lose weight or not. It’s how much do we want change? Do we really want it or is it just a fad? Are we filling our time and lying to ourselves. Because real change, the kind that lasts involves changing our self identity.
Law Of Attraction Weight Loss
Are you a “fitty” or a “fatty”? How do you see yourself? To lose weight this must change first. No amount of fad diets will help you if you’re not willing to work on yourself by working “in” yourself.
Working on yourself doesn’t just involve buying the new Fitbit watch and joining a gym. This might keep you motivated for a while, perhaps a month or so. But before long you’ll have fallen back into your old patterns of behaviour. Why? Simply because that’s how you see yourself. Your self image will always trump your will power.
Think about that. Your mind is talking to you almost non stop (inside your head). To make a change on the outside, you’ll need to change on the inside too! This means giving yourself a new story about yourself. No longer are you “only” this or “just” that. From now on you’re an athlete!
Law Of Attraction Weight Loss – Identify Your New Self image
Identifying as an athlete is different from segmenting your life into parts: going to the gym and laying off the booze. Most people start a diet and begin to exercise more and perhaps eat less. But what they miss is the inner game. They still identify with themselves as the same person. That means eventually, their self talk will win over their will power. It’s not that you’re weak or don’t have what it takes. it’s just that your self image is more powerful than your will power.
Even with a well disciplined work out pattern and a strict diet, you’ll end up telling yourself that it’s not worth it. You deserve that bottle of wine. After all, you’ve been working hard all week, right?! But if you change your identity and identify as an athlete, or a runner, or a swimmer you’ll reconsider. Why? Because athletes are focused on their next event. They continually tell themselves that they are athletes. They become so focused on the event, their time, their position in a race or an event, that there’s no room for slacking off!
Law Of Attraction Weight Loss – Why Self Image Is So Important
Plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz noticed that many of his out patients still carried doubt and low self esteem with them even after a successful surgery. Despite having the work done that they thought would change them, they still suffered. So he investigated what he discovered was the route cause of this dilemma: the self image.
Before taking new patients for surgery he worked with them and their self image to help them overcome low self esteem and be happier without surgery. Many of his patients no longer required the surgery they once were desperate for. Maltz discovered that the self image was a major part of someone’s makeup.
Will Power, Habit & Self Image
The law of attraction works because of your consistent beliefs and thoughts. One of the most constant of your underlying belief creators is your self image. Think about it. Your self image runs the show, not you! Your self image is there with you 24 hours a day, telling you whether you can or you can’t. It tells you who you are what you’re capable of and who you can become!
Will power on the other hand is much more limited. You only have a certain amount of will power each day. Habit is much more powerful. So the answer to law of attraction weight loss is to combine small daily habits you control with will power and creating a new self image.
What Weight Loss Plans Miss
Weight loss plans focus mostly on reducing the calorie intake you eat and increasing your daily exercise. But that’s not always a sustainable plan; especially if you’re lazy and like food a lot! How long will you be able to sustain it for given that it’s not your usual set of habits? Probably not very long. To sustain a given change in behaviour for longer periods of time is difficult. Most people’s behaviour doesn’t change that much.
To change your behaviour over the long term, you’ll need a new self image and a basic mini goal which you never deviate from. Why is this important? Most people set goals and habits which are unsustainable. Setting a smaller mini habit is more sustainable on the days where you don’t feel like it.
Over the longer term, mini habits are much more sustainable. Don’t set goals which are too hard because you’ll probably drop out. Set smaller, more achievable goals instead.
Why Set Smaller Goals?
Smaller goals have a huge knock-on effect over the longer term. because they are small, easily achievable goals you’re also more likely to sustain them. With a mini habit you can easily sustain it even when you’re feeling ill, off colour or not at your best.
Achieving a small mini goal gives you a natural boost. You can hit a mini goal every day, without much effort. Over time it become ingrained in your brain to do those things without thought. They become unconscious habits.
Unconscious habits are the things which usually work against you in any given weight loss plan. By using your will power to create one or two simple daily mini-habits, you can reverse this trend.
Changing Self Image
Changing your self image from a “fatty” to a “fitty” will take some time and effort! You can start the process by telling yourself some new lies. I say new lies because your current beliefs about who you are are all lies! All beliefs are lies. How can so many people think so differently and all be right?! Perhaps there’s some truth to what you tell yourself, you may think. But the things you say to yourself have the most power over the results you are creating. In order to use the law of attraction weight loss strategy, you’ll need to tell yourself a different story.
This starts with a new set of mantras. You’re already telling yourself things about what you are. So tell yourself something different. See law of attraction affirmations.
Again, much like mini habits this will take some time. You’ll have to undo years of inner programming which has been telling yourself a certain story. This story must change of you want to change.
Simple Affirmations
Listen first and notice what you tell yourself. Perhaps you run a story justifying the food and drink you consume. You’ll probably tell yourself a story about exercise too and who (you think) you are. These are clues to your current self image.
I’m overweight – could become “I’m not at my most desirable weight yet“
I hate exercise – could become “I choose to exercise so I am able to enjoy my food without regret”
I’m disappointed with my figure – could become “I’m a work in progress and working towards a new goal”
Affirmations don’t have to be outright lies. Your conscious mind will most likely reject outright lies you tell yourself anyway. If you don’t believe you’re fit and in good shape, it might be a stretch telling yourself you are, if you don’t believe it. But you can choose words (and thoughts) which support a new you!
