If you don’t think you can lose weight, then you are absolutely right!

How’s that for positive thought?  Well unfortunately its true.  If you believe you are unable to lose weight, get lean, or just in better shape, than you are absolutely right.  I’m sure you want to lose weight, but if you don’t believe it then, its sad for me to say, but your energy might be better suited elsewhere.

What I’m getting at is what your mind is telling you.  Your mind is telling you that you can’t lose weight, get lean, and become fit.  The fact that your mind is telling you these things leads your actions toward that belief.  This goes far beyond the realm of losing weight, exercise, and nutrition.  It is present in all aspects of your life whether you believe you can or believe you can’t perform a task, complete a project, or succeed at an accomplishment. 

You hear a lot about nutrition and exercise and what to do in order to make changes to your body.  However what makes you take the first step is the decision to perform those tasks.  That decision is controlled by your brain, as is all the decisions you make on a daily basis.  But we’ll focus more on exercise and nutrition.

The decision to eat supportively and exercise consistently is driven by the gasoline that is your brain.  And it is your mind that propels you to achieve results, step outside your comfort zone, have the mental strength to finish a hard workout, or to choose vegetables and lean proteins over ice cream and pizza.  One of the tools that works very well with getting your mind in the right place is to write your goals down in the form of an affirmation in the present tense.  Write your goals down as if they have already happened.  Tell a positive story with your goals and have them accessible daily.  This works better than reading your goals in list form because it trains your subconscious mind that you are living your goals and will train your brain to tell your body to take steps toward your goals much quicker.

Take a look at your goals and rewrite them in paragraph form.  To make them even more effective, think of painting a picture from your brain to paper.  In other words, you have to use as much detail as much as you possibly can so that everything that is in your brain concerning your goal is written in your affirmation.  This makes it very real and very personal to you.  And the more ‘you’ it is, the more effective it is going to be to training your brain to get what you want.