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Weight Loss And Life MasteryYour 'tude sets the mood! Why do some people embrace weight loss as a challenge and a learning experience, while others feel defeated and hopeless before they barely even start? It’s all in the attitude! Research shows that survivor personalities - people who make the most out of hardship and obstacles possess certain traits and attitudes. These attitudes can be learned and developed. Permanent weight loss and the life changes that go with it requires that one develop a flexibility of spirit, an openness to change, and an ability to reinvent one’s self over and over again. To lose weight successfully one must develop the traits of a survivor personality! For most people weight is something that can be managed but never cured. It can be one of life's biggest challenges. Overcoming major obstacles (such as losing weight) can develop strengths that we never knew we possessed. It can even lead us to greatness. Life’s hardships contain life’s greatest lessons. Every experience in life hold’s a gift. It’s all in how you look at it. Coping techniques, stress management, and developing healthier attitudes towards life and change play a crucial role in living with and recovering from compulsive overeating, chronic dieting, and eating disorders. People who are proactive and who take responsibility for the state of their lives are more successful than those who don’t. Many people are looking for a quick fix and there is none. It is much easier to focus on the latest diet, a drug, or look to a doctor to fix us than to look within ourselves for certain solutions and to effect lifestyle changes that lead to permanent weight loss. Psychologist Al Siebert has extensively studied survivors of all kinds of hardship and written several books on “The Survivor Personality.” His research shows that survivors have a complexity of character, a union of many opposites, which he calls biphasic traits. They are serious and playful, logical and intuitive, introspective and outgoing. In other words they have a flexibility of spirit, with a wider array of resources that they are able to draw on. This cluster of traits is known as resiliency. Some of these traits are: ·
Curiosity- these people ask questions. · Creativity - They find new solutions to problems. ·
Solution oriented - They stay focused on a solution. ·
Optimism - They don’t wallow in self-pity. · Self-reliant - They don’t look to others for validation and approval. · Synergy - They want things to work out for themselves and others. ·When bad things happen they look for the good in it. · High self esteem and self love - They have self-confidence. ·
They are flexible. I myself possess a survivor personality. I was
not born with it; I developed it over time. In my own life I have
overcome
tremendous hardships: I have survived an eating disorder, family
suicide, depression,
as well as fibromyalgia and cfs. I feel these experiences have made me
the
person I am today. Looking back over my life, I am often amazed by my
resiliency
and ability to bounce back and reinvent myself. How does one develop a survivor personality? Thriving depends on how well you can adapt and adjust to a changing
world. Losing weight permanently requires changing how you live and
perceive life.
Overeaters often have a hard time coping
with change. How can you become a better thriver? Look for the gift and opportunity in your circumstance. There is truth in the saying every cloud has a silver lining. Besides giving you a slimmer and healthier body, losing weight permanently can teach you many valuable life skills. What are some of the gifts of weight loss?
If you can master your weight problem you can master any obstacle in life. The skills of weight mastery and life mastery are one and the same! How you do food is how you do life!
How To Become A Weight Loss Master
Reading List The Survivor Personality, Why some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life’s Difficulties….and How You Can Be Too by Al Siebert, PHD. The Resiliency Advantage, Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back From Setbacks by Al Siebert, PHD. Interested in weight loss coaching? Contact Catherine for a free consultation!
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