What you think affects how you feel. Weight loss is possible through positive thinking. Challenge your thinking to see results.
How you think about yourself directly relates to how you feel about yourself. Overweight people often have a negative self image. They feel weak for allowing food to control them and have low self-worth because of their poor body image. Overweight people tend to think negatively about themselves.
Sometimes it is the things they tell themselves about their weight that brings them down. Other times they are replaying comments in their minds from as far back as childhood. Negative comments from family and friends stick with them for a long time if they go unchecked. Comments made about your weight and body as a child can effect how you feel about yourself as an adult.
If you are told as a child that you are fat, chubby; will never lose weight or that you'll always be overweight because it's in your genes, you will be more likely to be overweight. You will replay those messages in your mind and take them to heart. These messages can stay with you for a lifetime. In order to lose weight, however, you must be willing to let go of the negative thinking.
Practice Positive Self Talk
Think positive things about yourself in order to lose weight. Practice changing the negative things you've been telling yourself into positive affirmations. For example, if you have repeatedly thought that you are a failure at dieting, you will likely give up on your weight loss goals because you are certain you will fail anyway. Instead, challenge the negative thought. Discover why you have not been able to lose weight and keep it off through dieting in the past. What diets did you try? Did you give the diet a chance to work? Did you have the right support system in place at the time? Were you ready to lose weight?
Maybe you never stuck with a diet long enough to see results, you followed crazy diets or fad diets, or you needed more help than you were getting to get through the cravings and emotional eating. Once you know why the diets didn't work for you, you can rephrase your thoughts. Replace the thought that you will fail at all diets. Think about the times you did experience success and consider how committing to healthy lifestyle chances will ensure your weight loss success.
The way to change how you feel about yourself is to first change how you think about yourself. Toss out the negative thinking. Give yourself some credit, see yourself as a work in progress, learn to love yourself and use positive self talk to lose weight.
