Begin your weight loss efforts here, by rethinking your results.

Have you ever jumped on the scales week after week losing little or nothing and jumped off thinking, “this isn’t working,” or “I am failing again?”

These thoughts will not help you because they will serve to constantly remind you that you cannot lose weight. If you think of yourself as a person who cannot lose weight then doesn’t it stand to reason that you never will?

Look at it this way. There are no failures, just results. I read about this concept in Tom Venuto’s book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. In one particularly inspiring chapter, he gave an entirely new framework to the associations that I have with those slow or non-performance weeks when I jump on the scale and I haven’t lost anything.

Think about what you usually do when you are on a diet and it plateaus. Don’t you typically begin to feel bad, to curse the diet, to decide that nothing will ever work for you? What comes very quickly after that? Quitting.

Try looking at your failure as simply a result. Apply this logical, non-emotional, response and you will be amazed at how it can change your effectiveness in your weight loss efforts.

For example, if you jump on a scale tomorrow morning and find that after a week of diet and exercise, you have only lost ½ lb, you are probably going to be disappointed right? Consider if the ½ lb was merely a result. A result of what you did all week to help lose the weight.

What would your first thought be? No, not quitting. If you thought of your ½ lb weight loss was nothing more than the result of what you did all week, the first thing that would probably go through your mind is “what did I do all week?”

Then you will start to go back to the weight loss diary that you should be keeping you will probably find a few holes, meals that you missed, alcoholic drinks that you allowed yourself, snacks that were not on your diet. This is when you become a Sherlock Holmes who does the detective work necessary to figure out why you did not reach your goal.

Can you see how this is far more productive than falling into a negative bunch of self-talk phrases that eventually talk you into driving down to McDonalds because you’re never going to lose the weight ever anyway?

The book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, by Tom Venuto, provides some examples of how to create meal plans for the day. Though they are not blank templates to fill out. Readers can use the information in the book to create these templates that they will then fill in as they continue throughout their dieting.

The importance of this kind of tracking should not be underestimated. There are two great effects

• 1) If you have a bad weight loss week and want to know why, meticulous record keeping will help you in your detective work.

• 2) If you do keep meticulous records, cheating will be a very difficult thing indeed. You are likely to find that when all of your meals and exercise times are written down, you succeed more often.

Your weight loss efforts will be greatly aided by an attitude that is geared towards success rather than one that easily falls back into failure.

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