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The No Fat Lies Secret Psychology For Fat Loss Success - Part 3 B
Do you often find yourself caught in a rut where you’re depressed, sad or even angry due to the way you look at your body when overweight or obese? As a result, are the negative feelings causing you to act lazy and eat unhealthy? If this applies to you then work through the following assignment. I believe that eliminating unhealthy beliefs about your body can only happen if there are new results that prove them to be false. In order to achieve new and sustainable results it’s imperative that you look at your body in a different way than you ever have before. It’s possible for you to program your mind to produce positive feelings about the way you look on a consistent basis (even if your overweight or obese right now) that will help to propel you forward instead of dwelling in negative feelings due to what you see, hear and feel. So, are you ready to have some fun? You’re about to unleash your creativity by painting a picture inside the gallery of your mind! Read through the following scenario and then when you reach a question simply shut your eyes and visualize the experience to the best of your abilities. Afterwards, answer the question before moving on. A Tip From Rich: To participate in the following assignment, simply print off this article then write down your answers on a separate piece of paper, or type them out inside a text file as you go. Your spirit has now left your body once again and you find yourself standing at the entrance of the picture gallery inside your mind! After opening the door (you have the key since it’s your mind!) all you can see are paintings that are hung upon transparent walls, with nothing on the other side. The gallery seems to stretch for miles upon miles and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. You walk forwards and notice a sign which indicates that the gallery contains every belief you possess in life, with the related paintings. Suddenly, you see a light that's flashing in the distance above a painting on the wall. It grabs your attention and you decide to walk towards it. Once standing underneath it, you then realize there's a blank canvass within the frame! At the top is a plaque that reads, "I'm overweight". You then discover that this is the name of the blank canvass and the unhealthy belief that you relate to your body! Next, you see a plaque below it. To your surprise it's explaining the reasons as to how you came up with that name. Question 1: What are 3 reasons that support and strengthen the unhealthy belief about your body. Make sure that you can see the letters on the plaque underneath the name of the blank canvass. Visualize the messages you’ve seen, heard and felt that reinforce the unhealthy belief when coming up with the correct reasons. Afterwards, write down what you normally say to yourself in response to what you believe is true. Example of reasons why the unhealthy belief exists: I'm overweight. Reason 1 (I saw): My reflection in the mirror. What I would say to myself: I can’t accept the way I look and there’s nothing that can be done since I was made to be this way. Reason 2 (I heard): The comments people make about me. What I would say to myself: Even they can see how fat I am, so how can I ever expect to gain their respect? Reason 3 (I felt): The way my stomach and legs feel when I touch them. What I would say to myself: I feel smooth, heavy and sluggish and I’m only going to gain more fat in the near future. Your unhealthy belief: I'm overweight. Reason 1 (I saw): What I would say to myself: Reason 2 (I heard): What I would say to myself: Reason 3 (I felt): What I would say to myself: It's so important to accept the fact that the images, sounds and feelings that you've interpreted along with your self-talk haven't been working for you in a positive way. Due to this, you obviously programmed your mind on a consistent basis to produce negative feelings that aren't allowing you to behave in a productive manner. After reading all of the reasons as to why you gave the blank canvass it’s name, your emotions grab hold of you. Familiar feelings spring into your mind that came from the images, sounds and feelings you've associated to the unhealthy belief that you feel is true about your body. Question 2: When you think about all those reasons that support the unhealthy belief about your body (I'm overweight), what negative feelings come to mind? Below you'll see a list of negative feelings to choose from when you think about those reasons. Simply; circle or type out the negative feelings that apply to you. Feelings associated with the unhealthy belief: I'm overweight. Hatred Anger Sadness Depression Pity Ashamed Weak Worthless Fearful Ugly Lonely Yes, negative feelings really can cause bad behaviors! Suddenly, a selection of paints on a pallet along with a brush, magically appear before you! You feel the need to move away from those negative feelings and instead behave in such a way so you’ll feel satisfied and content. You envision a behavior that you’ve resorted to in the past, which helped you to run away from those negative feelings and feel good again. All you have to work with is some paint and a brush so you decide to paint a picture of the behavior on the blank canvass. Question 3: Paint a picture of a behavior on the blank canvass that you normally resort to as a result of feeling negatively towards the belief that you're overweight. Negative feelings most often lead to inactivity, overeating, excessive consumption of junk food, smoking, alcohol abuse, hiding or running away from the problem. First, paint the picture in your mind and then describe what you see below in your own words. Afterwards, draw a picture on a blank piece of paper to see the image come to life! Now ask yourself the following questions before you visualize the painting. How large is the canvass? What colors of paint are you using? Are your paint strokes slow or fast, soft or abrupt? How are you behaving and do you appear happy or sad? Are you moving or still? Is there anyone else or an object in the painting as well? Where are you located inside the painting? Example of an unproductive behavior: Since I feel depressed about believing that I’m overweight, I usually wear my baggy sweater to cover everything up. Example of how I’d paint a picture of that behavior: Since I automatically choose to feel this way on a regular basis due to this unhealthy belief, I’d definitely use a large canvass so the painting feels close to me. The colors that I use to paint myself and the background will be dark yet I’ll paint my sweater a bright yellow since that is the one I put on to feel better. My paint strokes will be quite slow since I’m low on energy. I’ll wear my favorite sweater as I’m lying down on the couch in my living room watching television. I’ll be alone with a comfortable look on my face while feeling sorry for myself. The unproductive behavior: The painting (draw your picture on a separate piece of paper): Question 4: How will you be affected in the future if you continue on behaving in that unproductive manner. Be descriptive when explaining how you’re going to feel and the way you’re going to look. Also, think of how your inner health will be affected as well. Example of a consequence from an unproductive behavior: If I continue to feel depressed as a result of believing that I’m overweight while also covering myself up with a sweater to hide away from the problem... I'll gain more weight, feel really bad and will shorten my life span further since I’m thinking negatively and not doing anything to lose the weight. The consequence of the unproductive behavior: Fantastic! Since you’ve made it this far I'm sure you now realize some of the reasons why you behave the way you do. Being aware of what you need to change about yourself is the first step towards breaking down unhealthy beliefs then building up healthier ones in exchange. I realize that you can’t snap your fingers and change the belief that your overweight in an instant. Remember, it’s your fat loss results that will change the belief about your body after you start using ‘No FAT Lies: The Absolute TRUTH on How to Lose Stubborn Fat for Life’! Moving along, it’s now important to change the way you react to your unhealthy belief in a positive way. When you learn how to generate positive feelings concerning anything you see, hear or feel inside that would normally cause you to feel negative, you’ll then automatically develop the habit of behaving in a more productive manner on a regular basis. Of course you’ll need to learn exactly what the most productive behaviors are that you can use. I’ll teach this to you shortly... Question 5: Below, you'll see the same list of negative feelings that were introduced to you before in this assignment. Once again; circle or type out the negative feelings that you associate with the unhealthy belief about your body (I'm overweight). When you select the negative feelings make sure you can still see the painting of the unproductive behavior that was created in your mind. After you're finished... I would like you to circle or type out the opposing positive feelings directly below, as these feelings are going to allow you to act proactively! Example of feelings associated to the unhealthy belief: I'm overweight. Negative Feelings Hatred Anger Sadness Depression Pity Ashamed Weak Worthless Fearful Ugly Lonely Positive Feelings Love Calm Happiness Uplifted Confident Proud Strong Deserving Courageous Attractive Fulfilled Believe it or not you’re now going to learn how to exchange the negative feelings to the positive ones instead! Can this be so easy, you ask? Especially since you've programmed yourself to react in such a negative way for quite some time now. You bet it is! All you have to do is make a concentrated effort on a consistent basis to identify similar situations to the ones before that caused you to react negatively. Instead, you’ll view it in an empowering way, which will positively change your feelings towards it. Question 6: Go back to all of the reasons you identified earlier, which support the unhealthy belief (I'm overweight) about your body. As you read each one visualize again what you see, hear and feel inside your mind. Decide how you’re going to alter the message so you can generate those new, positive feelings that are needed in order for you to behave productively. Once you’ve accomplished this, write down what you said to yourself before and what you’ll say to yourself now so you can flip the once negative situation to a positive one inside your mind! Example of reasons why the unhealthy belief exists: I'm overweight. Reason 1 (I saw): My reflection in the mirror. What I would say to myself: I can’t accept the way I look and there’s nothing that can be done since I was made to be this way. What I say to myself now: I accept the way I look and have the ability to lose this extra weight in 12-weeks or less! Reason 2 (I heard): The comments people make about me. What I would say to myself: Even they can see how fat I am, so how can I ever expect to gain their respect? What I say to myself now: After I lose some body fat and become shapelier those very same people will be commenting on how great I look and will come to me for advice on how to lose fat! Reason 3 (I felt): The way my stomach and legs feel when I touch them. What I would say to myself: I feel smooth, heavy and sluggish and I’m only going to gain more weight in the near future. What I say to myself now: If I had never been soft and heavy then I wouldn’t be able to fully appreciate the feeling of being toned and tight! Your unhealthy belief: I'm overweight. Reason 1 (I saw): What I would say to myself: What I say to myself now: Reason 2 (I heard): What I would say to myself: What I say to myself now: Reason 3 (I felt): What I would say to myself: What I say to myself now: Question 7: Using your new-found positive feelings that are associated with the unhealthy belief about your body, I’d like you to re-word the name of the painting in a positive way. Example of an altered unhealthy belief: I'm overweight at this time yet not for long! Your altered unhealthy belief: Question 8: How do you feel when you repeat your new, altered unhealthy belief about your body? Example of a feeling from an altered unhealthy belief: I’m excited and feel a renewed sense of motivation to lose fat! How do you feel now: Now that you’ve changed the name of the painting in a positive way, you come to the conclusion that the unproductive behavior that's displayed on the canvass just doesn’t match up. Suddenly, a can of water appears in front of you. You feel the need to create a new painting that displays a productive behavior instead, which relates with it's new name. You then toss the water upon the canvass and as it hits you yell out, “SPLASH!”. The paint flows off and trickles away. The canvass has now come clean! Within the next article of the ‘No FAT Lies secret psychology for fat loss success’ series, you’ll learn new, productive behaviors and will be encouraged to paint a new painting on the empty canvass instead. Question 9: Do you believe that you’re going to step inside a new, fit and attractive body in 12-weeks or less? Yes or No (circle or type out your answer) If you answered "Yes" then carry on with this series of articles. If you answered "No", then I must remind you that a transformation really can happen in an instant but only you are in control of that! I encourage you to go back through this assignment and take more time with it in order to get better results and then go forwards from here when you believe you’re going to get the results that you're dreaming about. As you work towards transforming your body, through repetition of thought, speech and action... your unhealthy beliefs will completely break down and then new, healthy alternatives will take their place. Now, let’s review what you’ve accomplished so far... Firstly, you made the decision to change the way you look and feel in a positive way. Secondly, you set attainable fitness goals to help set a target for what you’ll achieve within the following 12-weeks. Thirdly, in order to ensure your long-term success, you identified the unhealthy beliefs you associated to exercise and nutrition. From there you started to break them down by learning why those beliefs were stopping you from attaining the results you wanted to see and feel. Also, understanding what you should believe as an alternative. Afterwards, if necessary, you learned how to view your body in a more positive and healthy light, thus ensuring that you’ll behave more productively on a consistent basis. Just by accomplishing the above you should be very proud of yourself and realize that you're now 1 step closer to losing all of your stubborn fat for life! In the next article, you’ll learn the most important decisions that must become your own so you'll behave productively. Cut away any possibility of returning to where you once were before by… Creating Your New And Empowering Decisions Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Rich Tweten is a certified personal trainer of over the past 10 years, and author of ‘No FAT Lies: The Absolute TRUTH on How to Lose Stubborn Fat for Life’. For more information about his book-based program, cutting-edge online personal training website and to get your free e-course, visit: www.nofatlies.com. If you live in the Vancouver, Canada area then feel free to contact him for more information about his personal training services by visiting www.shapeupsolution.com. |
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