The secret to losing weight is no secret at all. If you follow some simple guidelines you can easily lose a pound a day . It comes down to consuming less than you burn. Or you need to change from eating fattening foods to non-fattening foods. The difficulty in losing weight is not in knowing what you should eat or not eat. The essentials of a good diet can be summarised on one page. The difficulty lies in doing it. There are umpteen stumbling blocks in sticking to a diet. They are mainly resident deep in our psyche’s.
One can easily lose a pound a day or lose 20 pounds fast by following such simple guidelines.
But it is not as simple as that, is it? If I had to write down the rules about healthy eating, low carbs, eating less and exercise, those of us battling to manage our weight will shout “I know that!” A simple diet or prescribed eating regime ignores the habits and urges that were responsible for the problem. And these habits and urges come from deep inside us. They are connected to motivation, beliefs, fears, habits, feelings and sometimes with physical needs. You cannot rely on will power against these odds.
Diets tell us what we can and cannot eat and when we can do so. This raises two major issues. Just by mentioning forbidden fruits bring, them to mind. Nobody likes being told what to do and what not to do, especially if it is something as innocent as snacking on a piece of candy or the size of the portions you choose.
People with weight problems seldom have a normal relationship with food, often to the extent of an obsession, whether it is a a deeply ingrained preference or an aversion for some foods or in the case of anorexia, with eating altogether. Their relationship with food has strayed from being casual. People who want to change their weight have mostly tried weight management before and failed. Every time this happens it strengthens a belief they just reinforce their views that it is difficult to achieve or even impossible. Without a belief that they can do it, such people lose motivation before they even start and give up very easily.
A psychological support system to help people implement a diet plan needs to be an integral part of weight management. Such a program should help the client deal with:
- Habits. Habits are things we do routinely mostly without thinking. Changing any habit requires vigilance and dealing with ‘not allowed’ repeatedly. And we all hate ‘not allowed’!
- Understanding that eating has a lot to do with habits and then how to change them.
- What we believe deep inside whether true or not and our beliefs about food in general.
- Beliefs in the possibility of achievement.
- beliefs about likes and dislikes. People have different beliefs in what is good for them personally.
It is actually easy to a pound a day if you deal with these issues. Any weight management program needs to deal with the mental side to be effective. NLP offers a variety of techniques to help people change behaviour and is perfect support system for any weight loss program.
By using NLP as a support base to any good diet you can be guaranteed to lose 10 or 20 pounds fast and gain a whole lot of other benefits at the same time.
See how NLP can help lose 20 pounds fast. It is an amazingly powerful weight loss tool.