Becoming A Weight Loss Master

Lighten up! Look for the absurdity in your life, it's all around you. The Weight Loss Master

Becoming a weight loss master is a journey and a process. The path to permanent weight loss can be seen as an opportunity for self transformation and discovery. Your weight problem can be viewed as a calling to have a deeper, more satisfying life. Here are some things you can do to become a weight loss master:

• Practice acceptance. Accept the fact that life is not fair. Challenges and change are a part of life.

• Slow down and open yourself to life. Learn to live in the moment.

• Appreciate yourself. Give yourself pats on the back for all the things you do right.

• Free yourself from thinking you should look, be, and feel a certain way. Don't should on yourself!

• Choose your own attitude. Choose to be happy right now.

• Practice gratitude. Keep a gratitude journal.

• Be patient. You didn't put the weight on overnight. You won't lose it overnight.

• Practice positive self talk. On bad days just making it through the day is a success.

• Develop a sense of purpose. Tell yourself, "I am here to learn all I can about weight loss so that I can help myself and others to lead healthier, more productive lives." Everything you learn about successful weight loss you can then teach to others. I have become an expert in weight and life mastery. It turns out this is my calling. Maybe your weight problem is calling you to something as well.

• Bloom where planted. Take responsibility for your life. Get out of victim mode. Feeling like, and acting like a victim just keeps you stuck in the problem. By doing any of the things on this list you are taking action and empowering yourself. Try to eliminate guilt and blame. These victimize you. While it is helpful to figure out what may have contributed to your weight, it is not helpful to beat yourself up about it. Blaming yourself or others for your weight problem keeps you from owning your power and taking responsibility for your life.

• Get inspired. Fill yourself up on a steady diet of stories of people who have successfully lost weight. Apply their weight loss solutions to your life. These stories cultivate hope and are a source of motivation. The Internet is an excellent source of stories and solutions that have helped others.

• Seek out support and give support to others. Involve others in your weight loss goals. Get a coach. Join a group. You don’t have to do it all alone. Successful weight loss masters utilize the support of others.

• Lighten up. Learn to laugh. Reconnect with your joyful, "thinner" child! Rediscover the things that used to make you smile. Fill yourself up with wonder, not Wonder bread! Read and watch humor, tell jokes. Look for the absurdity in your life, it's all around you.

• Get perspective. Do you have a roof over your head? Do you have food to eat? People who care about you? Many in this world do not. Don’t awfulize and obsess about your weight. Being overweight is not the end of the world. It is not a moral failure. Today, thousands of people are going to die. If you are still alive at the end of the day then you are one of the lucky ones. As a friend used to say, bad breath is better than no breath. It’s all how you look at it.

• Get involved. Learn a new hobby, craft, or volunteer. Seek out others who share your interest to keep your focus off food and your weight. This will boost your self-esteem, expand your social contacts, and give you a new lease on life.

By choosing to look at your weight and the process of weight loss as an opportunity for growth and self transformation, you can learn to cope better with change, reclaim your power, and become a stronger, slimmer person in the process.

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