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How your mind creates your weight loss


The excess weight you carry, or your disordered eating habits is simply a consequence of you rewarding, and commiserating with yourself with food; stress and comfort eating; sugar cravings, and a myriad of old habits, and beliefs that are no longer helpful for you to lose weight, or be as healthy as you can be.

Your mind plays an enormous role in how your body is allowed to manifest health, and slimness together with the ability to make the right choices to ensure you eat for nourishment instead of self-punishment.

Carrying excess weight is never about being greedy, or about a lack of willpower. That’s why diets simply do not work - but you already know that!

As therapists Sally Baker and Liz Hogon target your body by changing your mind.

YOUR MIND IS WHERE YOU WILL CREATE YOUR WEIGHT LOSS, AND WELLBEING.

Surgical interventions alone...won’t do it.

Any "step-by-step approach"... won't do it.

"Forcing" yourself to go without... won't do it.

Any preconceived ideas... won't do it.

It is time to finally explore, and release your mind of old, unhelpful beliefs, and negative thinking to become a manifestation of good health, and well-being so that you can achieve a slimmer, happier you.

If you resolve the issues in your mind that keep you stuck, and overweight, then you will be successful.

Your mind has the power to make you slim, and healthy.

And your mind has the power to keep you overweight, unhealthy, and stuck.

It's your choice to free yourself.

If you understand this, just whisper "yes" to yourself. It is time to acknowledge it out-loud to make it real.

The underlying reasons for emotional eating are similar to the layers of an onion, so it’s important to peel back those layers in the most effective way releasing, and resolving deeper, and deeper issues as you progress. One effective way of approaching this work is chronologically.

Tracing your past

Focus on increasing your understanding, and insight into your own life events, and memories around your weight. Write down times in your life when your weight and your eating has felt more in balance, and times in your life when your weight escalated and your eating felt out of control. This exploration is called The Time Line Protocol. It’s useful to begin with your earliest recollections, and go right through to the present day. What was happening for you emotionally around those key times in your life, and most critically what judgements do you make about yourself from those memories, and events?

Blaming yourself is exhausting, and keeps you stuck. “It’s all my fault,” and other negative self-talk is dispiriting and undermines your self-esteem. Many people who struggle with losing weight think very poorly of themselves so making changes to how you think about yourself can be key to effectively clearing negative self-beliefs.

Sally Baker, and Liz Hogon recommend two free therapy tools to help you explore, and resolve any negative judgements triggered by the past, and release your negative thoughts. You can use EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), and PSTEC (Percussive Suggestion Technique) as two easy to learn self-help therapy tools available for no charge from www.your7simpleteps.com/Resources.

This will assist you with everything practical you are doing for your own transformation.



Thanks for your article. It is so true that we can’t lose weight just by telling ourselves to eat right or by depending on the WLS procedure itself. We need to explore our own reasons for not having been able to lose weight in the past, and figure out how we can free ourselves to succeed now. Thanks for this article.

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Sorry a silly typo. The link is

Www.your7simplesteps.com

Then go to therapy tools. You'll need to do a very quick email registration and then all the resources are free of charge. Sally

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