Achieving Permanent Healthy Weight Loss: Your Self-Image Is the Key
1. Healthy weight loss success will not last unless you change
your self-image, and this is why 95% of people who lose
weight gain it right back. There's a lot of good advice on
the internet and in book stores about how to raise your
metabolism and how to lose weight the healthy way, and
still people all over the nation lose weight only to gain it
back again. This is because many of these books don't
include the essential steps required to change a person's
self-image. How important is the self-image when it comes
to achieving lasting weight loss results?
2. In this article, we'll be talking about how your self-image
makes or breaks your ability to achieve healthy weight
loss and to keep the results which you have achieved...
4. People's consistent actions aren't determined by how
talented they are or how motivated they are. Instead,
their consistent actions are determined by their self-
image. Do you know anyone who is attractive but who
doesn't believe it? Most likely, they don't act beautiful.
The same is true with talent and with everything else that
people possess. A person's self image determines what
character traits and skills they consider to be a part of
their identity and these are the character traits and skills
that a person uses in their everyday life.
5. Sure, you can force yourself to behave in a way which is
inconsistent with your self-image, but you can only keep
this up for so long. Eventually, your self-image will
subconsciously motivate you to start acting in a way which
is consistent with the way you see yourself. This is how
someone can be "motivated" to live healthy and keep it
up for a while, only to give up and go back to their old
habits. This is how someone can receive a raise or a
promotion, and still be living paycheck to paycheck.
6. Attempting to force actions which aren't consistent with
your self-image is like holding your breath under water.
You can do it for a certain amount of time by sheer force
of willpower, but eventually your body will force you to
come to the surface...and when you do you'll be gasping
for air. This is similar to how people go on crash diets, but
start eating like crazy when they get off the diet...and of
course you know what happens when.
7. So if you want to achieve healthy and lasting weight loss,
you must strengthen your self-image and make it
consistent with the actions and habits of a healthy
lifestyle. This is the missing link when it comes to
achieving healthy weight loss.
