The 10 Most Important Steps to Permanent Weight Loss

Miracle pills and diets don’t work yet women spend thousands of dollars praying that a little miracle pill will burn off all their fat and leave them thin and happy in all areas of their life. There’s one big problem, nothing changes once they lose the weight. When women diet and deprive their bodies, they lose the weight and feel just as empty. They still have little passion with their husbands or partners and have no patience with their children. What’s been overlooked by all of the dieting gimmicks is one’s mindset. Until a women’s mindset is addressed she’ll continue yo-yo dieting and end up fatter and emptier after each attempt.

The solution to permanent weight loss does not entail “dieting” or “depriving”. It stems from the inside. A woman has to be in so much pain that she really wants to make a change, and she’s willing to take the steps towards getting back to her “ideal self”. Once she takes care of herself from the inside she will have permanent weight loss, more passion, and experience more joy.

10 Steps to Permanent Weight Loss

Step 1. The “Baby Steps”. This means doing things that make you feel good. These are the things that you stopped doing for one reason another, typically after having children. Examples of self care include taking a nice bubble bath, wearing clothes that fit your body vs. baggy frumpy sweats, putting on makeup, doing your hair, putting on soothing lotion.

Step 2. The “Ideal You”. Take out a picture from a time that you felt good and looked good. Put the picture in a place you’ll visit often (i.e. like the bathroom mirror). Every morning close your eyes and imagine that you look like that picture now.

Step 3. See “Your Ideal You Now”. Every night picture the “ideal you” from head to toe.

Step 4. Tell Yourself Positive Self Statements. When you wake up in the morning look at yourself and the picture and tell yourself “I AM FIT”, “I AM BEAUTIFUL”, “I AM TONED”. Repeat each statement 5 times, even if you don’t feel it. The more you say it the more you will start to feel it.

Step 5. Eat When You are Hungry vs. By The Number On The Clock. Learn to recognize your body’s hunger cues. Do you feel irritable? Is your tummy rumbling? When you are hungry fuel your body with nourishing foods, do not wait for a number on the clock to tell you when to eat! When you listen to your body, and eat when you’re hungry you’ll keep your blood sugar stable which means you’ll have more energy and a better mood, plus you won’t overeat.

Step 6. Food Emotion Journal. Journal as detailed as possible what you ate, how much water you drank, and whether you exercised. Also record how you felt that day. Notice the pattern of your emotional eating food habits on days when you are stressed or bored.

Step 7. Replace Behaviors. Once you recognize your emotional eating behavior patterns, replace them with positive behaviors such as calling a friend, reading a book, or going for a walk.

Step 8. Reframe Exercise as “Me Time”. The key is to find an activity that you enjoy doing. Instead of viewing exercise as something you have to do to keep from getting fat, view it as “me time”. It’s the one half hour to hour of time that you have to yourself.

Step 9. Exercise Statements. As you exercise repeat quietly or out load, “I have chosen to take care of me.” “I am valuable and I deserve to take care of me”.

Step 10. Repeat steps 1-9. Each of these steps will get imbedded in your subconscious. The more you take care of yourself, the more it will reflect on the outside. Weight loss will happen without deprivation. You will also experience an increase in confidence and self esteem, more passion with your husband or partner, and feel more love and experience more joy with your children.