Fix your thinking

FIX YOUR THINKING AND YOU FIX YOUR WEIGHT PROBLEMS. 

 If asked which is the biggest problem for addicts to overcome, physical addiction or false and destructive thinking, any therapist would go with the thinking.  The same is true for people with weight problems.  Fix your insane thinking and you solve your weight problem.  Here are some of the most common thinking lies we buy into.

1. “ Something is wrong with me because I have tried over and over to lose weight and failed.”  The truth:  There are very few people who have legitimate physical reasons which keep them from losing weight.  For 99 percent of us, it is simply not knowing how to effectively deal with our food addictions combined with a bunch of bad habits, which includes erroneous thinking.  With a good system, accountability, and determination you absolutely can change the way you think and behave, and lose your weight.  
2. “I must have that cheese cake, warm bread, chocolate, or whatever fattening or unhealthy food you are craving.”  No you don’t.  You don’t have to do any such thing.  You just need to discover and apply a different way of thinking about that food.  Many can do this on their own, and many need coaching and training to learn to do it.  Figure out which is you and go to work on it.  With some effort, you can become one of those people who can say “no” and mean it.
3. “This gimmick diet, potion, pill, or surgery might be the one that will work for me.”  I have some bad news.  There is no gimmick, potion, pill, or surgery that will solve your problem.  What you are trying to do is turn responsibility over to someone or something else.  Healthy weight loss and management is not a mystery.  It is calories in/calories out, combined with changes to a healthier diet---plus some exercise.  Change takes effort and commitment, and for most of us food addicts, some coaching and accountability.
4. “Food is the enemy.”  I guess it would be accurate to say that unhealthy food is the enemy, but healthy food is absolutely not, and you can eat lots of it and get to a healthy weight---and you should.  The fact is, it’s almost impossible to eat enough green vegetables to keep from losing weight.  You can eat an awful lot of whole fruit---and you should.  The problem is not food itself, but unhealthy foods or “bummer foods”, as we choose to call them.  The key is to find ways to replace the foods that are making you sick and fat, such as sugary foods, processed foods, simple carbohydrates, and cheese, with blueberries, almonds, and salad greens.  If you will, over time, you can change your tastes so that your favorites become the ones that make you thin, fit, healthy, and eliminate diseases.

These are a few of the more common thinking lies many people buy into.  There are more.  Finding your fallacious thinking, and changing these fallacies to healthy reality is one of the biggest keys to succeeding at weight loss and becoming healthy.  You can do it.