#1 Best Weight Loss Tip

• Really truly want to lose weight.

Yes, it seems obvious, but the cold hard truth is if you really truly want to lose weight and you aren't one of the .001% of the population that has a medical reason why they can't, you will lose weight.  If you don't want to really, really badly then you won't.  It really is just that simple (notice I didn't say easy, I said simple.  Weight loss isn't easy.)

There are a lot of reasons people don't want to lose weight even though they say they do and even think they do.  On a deeper level they don't want to and that is what's keeping them from succeeding losing weight.

The Top 4 reasons people don't want to lose weight:

• Someone else tells you, whether verbally or through their actions, that you need to lose weight.  This is a biggie.  Let's face it.  None of us want to be told what to do.  We resist. 

If a spouse, parent or friend tells us we need to lose weight or tries to coerce us into losing weight, on the surface we may agree with them (yeah, okay, we need to lose some pounds) but at a deeper level that ticks us off.   If they love us it shouldn't matter how much we weigh, right?  Right. 

The problem is that instead of telling them to love us as we are or take the risk that they might not, we go on a diet or starve ourselves or take weight loss pills so we can win their approval or love and the whole time we're resentful about it.  We shouldn't HAVE to do anything for their approval or love.

So, to get back at them we don't really give it our best shot or we lose a bit of weight and as soon as we do we gain it right back.  Ha!  That will show them!  The only problem is that it usually leads to failure or weight gain for us.

• You are scared that if you really truly try to lose weight, you can't.  Some people don't want to try because what happens if they really truly try to lose weight and just can't do it.  It's better to live with the hope of one day losing weight than putting all your effort into it and failing, right?  Then you won't even have the hope anymore.   Wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong. 

If you really, truly want to lose weight you will.  If you slip and fall along the path so what?  Get up, dust yourself off, and keep trying.  If you really truly want to lose weight and go for it full force and follow a sensible weight loss plan, you will lose weight.   It's a fact.   There are no exceptions to this, none.   The universe hasn't singled you out as the one person in the world who won't be able to lose weight.   

• You are scared to be thin.  Sometimes people like to be overweight because it confirms other people's idea about them or their own idea about themselves.  For example, if you think you are a bad person or your dad or mom told you that you were, you may want to keep being overweight because it confirms that idea of yourself.  "If I were a good person, I could lose weight."  or "I've tried all sorts of diets and I'm still overweight.  I can't do anything right."  If you have thought these thoughts all your life, it's scary to think of yourself in a new way. (I am a good person and I deserve to be thin!)

Another reason that goes along with this is that you may be scared to be thin because you don't want to attract attention and being thin would expose you to unwanted attention.  This is a very natural fear if you were abused as a child.   

• You just don't want to lose weight.  This is more common than you may think.  Sometimes people just don't want to lose weight.  Yet because society tells us we should all be a size 6 we try to lose weight anyway.  If you don't want to lose weight, don't try.  You don't get a gold star in life for being a size 6.  You get a gold star for being a good person and being happy with yourself.  If you are happy with yourself whatever size you are, that's super!  Super models would pay for that happiness. 

Beware though - don't use this as an excuse to eat more and don't fool yourself into thinking you are happy and content if you truly aren't.  Only you know if you are really content.  You can lie to other people, but you can't lie to yourself.  If you aren't content being the weight you are, then don't fool yourself into believing you are.  You have the power to change your weight.  If you decide that you really truly want to change it you will.   

Basically what all of this weight loss stuff boils down to is this:

If you (and only you) want to lose weight, you can and you will.  If someone else wants you to lose weight, if you have a reason why you are afraid to be thin, if you are afraid of failing or if you just plain don't want to lose weight, then you won't lose weight and you shouldn't put yourself through the torture of trying and failing.

You can do it if you really truly want to do it.

Having lost weight is one of the best feelings in the world - not only does it make you feel better about yourself and everyone else, it makes you more confident, happier, and healthier.  It can change your life in so many good ways that you never thought possible.  It can be one of the best experiences of your life.  It's one of the best, most wonderful gifts you can give yourself.  A gift to you, from you.  

You deserve to lose weight and you deserve to be thin!  You CAN do it!!!!!

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