12. Are You Ready To Lose Weight?

Everyone who has changed their eating habits in order to lose weight, has been right where you are today.  What are your thoughts on healthy eating?
You need to explore your thoughts and feelings about why you are going to make these changes. These changes will be for your benefit, it must be your decision to commit to a plan as you will be in ultimate control.

Ask yourself;

• How do you feel about your weight, size, shape?
• What is the most difficult thing about being this weight?
• What do you think your "healthy weight" should be?
• How are you going to change your weight?
• Are you ready for change? 

Write your answers in a journal.  Refer to them for reassurance and motivation.  Write down your goals and aspirations.

What if you're not ready for change?

You may not need to make changes to your eating habits or weight.  You will be the best judge of that.  We don't live in a blinkered world, so you will know if change is really necessary for you, sometimes we can be in denial, in which case you need to do a little soul searching from time to time, ask yourself the right questions and do what's right for you, be your own best friend.

Sometimes the changes that we adopt don't feel right.  Look at your reasons for change and maybe you might have to find a new way of helping you through this journey.  Reflection and changing of methods when previous methods failed, is a perfectly normal and necessary route to success for all of life's challenges.  All the big successful global businesses do this, you can do this for yourself using this tool;

The Reflective Cycle

Write each step down in your journal.  You may need to do this a number of times, but only through reflection and thinking of solutions that best suit you, will you find a result that you are comfortable with and that you are more likely to stick with.

1. Description: What is the difficulty?

2. Feelings: How does it make you feel and why?

3. Evaluation: Judge how important this difficulty is and it's affect on your plans.

4. Conclusion: What changes will you make?  Ask advice from others. Come up with a plan.

5. Action: Do it! Put those plans into action.  

If you action the plan and it proves that it's not the right plan for you, revisit stage 4 "conclusions" come up with an alternative plan and go to "Stage 5: Action" and give that a good go!  

We learn from our mistakes, so be prepared to be a master of this subject, before you're done!

Please contact me if you have any questions or tips that might help others, I want to hear from you.  Contact  terri@clubmotivita.com

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