Discover The Secrets To Changing Your Body By First Changing Your Mind

Ok, so you've begun and lifestyle change plan, but your finding it hard to stay motivated.  Let's face it, most people quit an exercise program and healthy eating plan because they just aren't seeing results fast enough to keep them moving forward right?  I mean think about it, you walk into a restaurant and, even though you plan to make a healthy menu choice, you begin to think about how good that unhealthy, high fat meal smells or looks, and you just can't muster the willpower to order the healthier choice.  Of course, the moment you finish you want to kick yourself for not choosing better.  Sound familiar?  How about sitting on the couch and trying to justify watching TV by promising yourself you will go to the gym tomorrow without excuse?  These scenarios and many more are easy for most of us to relate to.  Don't get too discouraged because there is hope.  We simply have to change our minds.

Think back to the moment you decided to make a change.  You may have been having a conversation with a friend, you may have seen a Weight Watchers commercial on TV, or you may have had a good look in the mirror.  Whenever that moment was, your decision to change came out of a need or want to change.  That desire sparked a visualization in you of where you want to be.  That visual picture became your motivation to start making changes.  You, even if for just one moment, you stopped focusing on how your life was and how your health was, and started focusing on what it could be.  That moment began a positive mind-body connection that sparked you to action.

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation discovered that a muscle can be strengthened just by thinking about it.  What's more, brain scans taken after the study showed greater and more focused activity in the prefrontal cortex than before. The researchers said strength gains were due to improvements in the brain's ability to signal muscle (The Franklin Institute).  Now no one is going to make a huge difference in their body by simply thinking about it, but it does show that along with a sound exercise program and balanced nutrition and supplement plan, a positive mental visualization plan is just as important.  

So how do overcome the overwhelming desire to quit making continued healthy choices?  We stop and visualize the goal, just like we did the moment we made the conscious decision to begin to change in the first place.  In order to truly be successful in a continued wellness program, we must follow three important steps.  

Step One: Prepare your attitude.

Decide to make the change and be prepared in advance to face the obstacles you will encounter with the right attitude.  There is not a single person that begins a healthy lifestyle that doesn't expect to face temptation.  Going into a program knowing this gives us the ability to prepare our minds in advance for those times when we face a choice of healthy vs. unhealthy.  Practice your responses to your temptations ahead of time so that when you are actually in the moment your already prepared with an answer.  This one step will greatly diminish your chance of failure in your efforts for change.

Step Two:  Have confidence that you CAN do it.

Along with preparing in advance to face your temptation, you must also believe in yourself that you will be able to one day be the person you envisioned.  Have confidence in your program, your nutrition preparation and supplements and in your ability to follow through.  Remind yourself that failure is not an option and that there is no such thing as the impossible.  By believing in you can, you place a guard around your mind that protects you from the negative.

Step Three:  Visualize the new you.

Begin to see yourself in your mind as the person you intend to be.  When you look in the mirror, see yourself as who you are going to be, not who you are.  When you are training, imagine every moment of that treadmill run or elliptical workout getting you that much closer to where you are wanting to be.  During your meals, think about how the nutrition choices you are making are getting you to your goal.  With visualization and positive thinking you can achieve anything you put your mind to.  

By following the steps above, you will be dramatically improving your odds of success and when you feel like quitting you can fall back on these techniques to help you stay motivated and on track to reach your goals.  So the next time you catch yourself thinking you can't...change your mind.

Until next time, keep reaching for the healthy happy life you deserve.

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