Weight is a lagging indicator of health. Instead of waiting to reach a goal weight, practice being the thin, healthy person now through small daily choices like drinking water, taking walks, and eating simple meals. This identity shift builds lasting habits faster than traditional dieting.
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Practicing being thin and healthy right now, you tend to think that I'll be thin and healthy when I lose the weight, right? But you have to realize that your weight is what we call a lagging indicator. The leading indicator is what you're thinking, feeling and behaving now, right? And over time, it's going to turn into what your weight and your health is. So if you want to create the change that you're really looking for, which is to live as a thin and healthy person, it's going to require that you start practicing being the thin healthy person you want to be. Right now. If we put it in a different context, it's kind of like if you want to play a musical instrument, if you want to get good at art, if you want to get good at a sport, you start practicing now. And the more you can put yourself into the mode that's going to thrive and succeed in that arena, the better you're going to do. You have to start focusing on what you're thinking, feeling and doing now, today, rather than just focusing on the future goal weight that you want to achieve. So another way to look at this is there's the difference between destination based motivation and journey based motivation. So dieting has taught you to have a destination based focus, whereas journey based motivation is all about the journey, the transformation of who you become along the way. If you've ever gotten close to or gotten to your goal weight, if it was so amazing, if once you got there, you were just going to stay there forever and figure it out and all that, then how come you put the weight on on? How come 85 to 95% of dieters that lose the weight put the weight back on? So we need a different approach, and again, not just a different approach to succeed, but a different approach to maintain the success. And what that is, is right now, at this very moment, it's starting to think to yourself, what does a thin and healthy me think? How does a thin and healthy me behave? What choices does a thin and healthy me make during the day to day? How do I drink, how do I sleep, how do I relax, how do I move? How do I exercise today, right now? And if you start to practice being the person you want to be day in and day out, it's the equivalent of if you want to play golf and you start practicing your golf swing every day, what do you think is going to happen over three months, six months, a year, five years? How could you not get infinitely better with that approach than this idea of that I'm going to stay the same person, but I'm going to change how I eat. And then at some point I'll lose the weight and then I'll be a different person. It's not working. It's never going to work because it's missing all the core fundamentals of transformation. And the primary one is practicing, practicing being the person you want to be. Dieters go into this, this process thinking that you know what to do and you're good at it, and you can just do it starting tomorrow. No, you have to practice it. You're not good at it. You're not good at making the right choices, the decisions, the habits, the routines, the aware, the shopping, the environment. You're not good at these things right now if you're overweight. And so you've got to practice them. And then the question becomes, do you want to practice them next year, do you want to start practicing them now so you can start getting all those benefits and results? And again, the best part of this approach, in my opinion, is that when you start practicing being the thin, healthy person you want to be right now is that you get to feel good immediately. Because when you start to operate out of the mindset that you're a thin, healthy person who's always getting better and better at it, and you start behaving that way today, you start to feel better about yourself. You make better choices, you reflect on them, you feel proud, your body feels stronger and more energized, you sleep better and wake up more focused and motivated. It becomes this chain reaction that can start right now, this minute, with something as simple as drinking some water, going for a short walk, taking a moment, closing your eyes and just taking a deep breath and letting it out. It doesn't take these herculean efforts of dieting to succeed and feel good about yourself. That's the lie you've been told by the diet industry. You can start feeling better literally right this second by taking a deep breath and letting it out. It feels better. And that feeling is your thin, healthy self. And the more you feel that, the more successful you're going to be with your weight. But the thing is, you can feel amazing today if you drink some water, if you eat an apple, if you go for a short walk, if you do a couple deep breaths and relax, if you have a decent sized salad somewhere today you will feel amazing. Today you will go to bed feeling unreal and you'll wake up tomorrow morning reflecting on it, feeling amazing. And if you start to realize this, this is the process now does, does that mean you're going to be perfect? Does that mean you're never going to make a mistake? Of course not. We get caught off guard somet. We get in bad moods, things happen. That's normal and it doesn't matter. Because when the, when the core of what you do day in and day out is built around being the person you want to be, over a week, over a month, over a year, that shows up in a dramatic way because you develop the skill sets, the thought patterns, the emotional responses of being the person who you want to be. This is how you get the weight loss results you're looking for. Not by just pretending you're going to force yourself to act different and hoping that your weight goes down. It's by intentionally, consistently practicing being the person you want to be. And if you want to practice this more effectively, click the link in my bio or go to programyourself then.com and go get the free hypnosis session I give you. Because that is one of the easiest ways to practice being the thin healthy person you want to be. This session is a kickstart session designed to help you clarify what your weight goal is, how it's going to feel, how you behave as that version of you and let you connect to it. And it has the effect of magnetizing the goal so that all of a sudden you feel pulled towards your goal weight, you feel pulled and supported. You want to do the things that make you your goal weight instead of trying to push yourself. And it's transformative if you go check that out. So again, go click the link and go get the free hypnosis session. It's going to help you out.
