- Focus on how fantastic you feel when you exercise and how it supports your body's health. Do not exercise solely expecting to lose weight. If you do you will quit exercising, which is so important for the body's health. I remember one time a woman told me that she did not exercise because it made her gain weight. So she said she had a few more pounds to lose and then she would start exercising. This woman ignorantly thought that when she was exercising she was gaining fat, when actually she was gaining muscle. Gaining the muscle would have helped her lose weight faster. Muscle weighs more than fat. This is why men are heavier than women and lose weight faster. She also did not know that exercising would help her bone health as well. Which at her age would have been a big plus since she was showing early signs of having osteoporosis.
- Stop comparing yourself to other women, what they look like or what they are doing. We are always comparing ourselves to others, most people just can not help to do so. But the thing that we forget is that we are not meant to be or look like anyone else. Studies have shown that women who watch too much TV tend to have poorer body images than women who don't. In my own experience this was definitely true. When I would see the rail thin women on my favorite shows, I would feel bad about my physique. Looking back I have a better body image now that I do not watch TV even though my body was at least 80% more attractive then.
- Some women who have had difficulties in relationships blame their body for it. They assume that a man does not love them because they are not perfect. This is a false belief. If you pay attention you will see all the couples out there in which neither of the partners have a perfect body, yet they are madly in love. Ofcourse if your belief is that you must be perfect to attract Mr. Right then you will develop scotomas and only see the couples that are super attractive and also attract men who expect perfection from you. These expectations are unrealistic and extremely superficial. Besides if you have been reading my articles on healing, relationships and the Law of Attraction, you will find that being thin is not the answer to your relationship problems.
- Don't fall for the illusions media and the people who sell diet books portray. You are promised to have a new life, but only if you lose a certain amount of weight. They tell you that they have the answer to do so. But if you keep falling for these tricks you will end up being one of those yo-yo dieters whose only focus in life is to lose weight. You will live miserably because the diets do not work long term so you will blame yourself for the failure. You will promise yourself you will do better next time when you find the perfect diet for you. Then when someone tells you about another diet, it will jump-start you with hope that this new diet could be the answer. But it isn't, so the yo-yo dieting cycle continues. This is why the diet industry has been so successful for many years regardless if their gimmicks work or not. Remember if they do work it is only temporarily and chances are the diet is hazardous to your health as well. Face reality, diets do not work.
- Many women believe they must be able lose weight in order to feel better about themselves. But actually if losing weight does make you feel better it is only temporary, just like the weight loss. Plus when you regain the weight you will also feel worse than before the initial weight loss. If you have low self-esteem issues, it is more important that you work on that. Working on your self esteem first can actually be more helpful to you in losing weight than a diet would and it is not hazardous to your health. If anything it will improve your overall health.
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