The Mindset Switch that Will Ensure Fat Loss Success

“This is the last time”, you think to yourself, as you’re about to embark on another diet. You’ve been on several diets before. You lose weight, and then you regain it (sometimes more than you start with). You swear to yourself up and down that this next diet (which, by your count is diet #137) is going to be your last one.

You want everything that comes with losing weight:

• Being able to fit into smaller clothes.
• Being able to wear certain clothes that you either haven’t worn in years, or wouldn’t dare wear in your current shape.
• Liking the way you look in pictures and in the mirror.
• Higher energy levels, to get more done in your day, and maybe even perform better at work.
• Volunteer more.
• Play with your kids/grandkids more.

But your weight is standing in the way of achieving that. This time, however, you’ve found the diet. Your friend(s) lost all kinds of weight on it, and this time it will be different.

Though in the back of your mind, you know that it’s just going to be like every other diet… but with a different name.

That’s because of the psychology around dieting. Just think about the language of dieting. We say that we’re going “on” a diet. Does that imply that at some point we’ll go “off” the diet? Presumably when we reach our ideal weight? We’ll just return to the way of eating we had…