6 Simple Weight Loss Steps: Lose Weight Treating Mind, Body and Spirit

This is a brand new way to look at weight loss! Until you are willing to take complete responsibility for yourself and your results in life you are going to keep sabotaging yourself and your results. You will continue on the yo-yo weight loss path and eventually give up for good.

You deserve better. The secret to lasting weight loss is consciousness. That is it. You have to be conscious of your life, conscious of your moods, conscious of when you eat, what you eat and why you eat it. They key point is that you should be aware of when you are feeling full and when you are hungry. I've laid out some steps to get you started...

1. Take a really good look at your life. What does your life look like? If it doesn't look like you want it to (make sure you look at all areas) then you have inconsistencies. Why? What are your limiting beliefs? And trust me...it's not about the food!

2. Examine or create your life vision. Before you can begin to lose the weight you have to get a really clear vision of how being thinner will affect your life. Sit down and come out with a complete life vision. What do you want to be different once you are thin? Why do you want to lose the weight? Get a really perfect vision, and the emotions that accompany it. This will help you when you are struggling.

3. Prioritize. You have your life vision (written down, on a vision board, or recorded somewhere) and it's incredibly detailed and full of positive emotion. Now it's time to get things straight. If your life vision includes you as a size 8, what priorities go with that? Don't let laundry become more important that your yoga class or your daily walk with the dog. Set your true honest priorities and stick to them. At this point if you're honest, you might discover that you're okay with your weight right now. It's just isn't a priority. Give yourself permission to feel that way.

4. Look at your eating. What are you really hungry for? This requires consciously examining everything you put in your mouth. Now you might be resisting this process because it takes a lot of "work". Are you worth it? This is where your priorities will really come in to play. If you don't truly want to lose the weight, and it is not a priority to be thin, then you will come up with excuses to NOT do this step. Take responsibility for your results. If consciousness and asking yourself some questions before you put anything in your mouth is too much work, than you might not really want to lose weight.

5. Work on the resistance. If you feel resistant to asking yourself some questions, but think that you really do want to lose weight, there are a couple of resources for you. I recommend EFT (emotional freedom technique). You can also use the Sedona Method or The Work.

6. Learn to live in the moment. Again this is a simple process that requires energy. Take small steps every time you think to. Start off just taking 10 deep breaths in a row and doing this 5 times a day. Then you can move on to looking at every single thing you put in your mouth. Eventually you will get to the point where it takes very little energy and you are automatically deciding what you are really hungry for and when you're just on autopilot.

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