Weight Loss Psychology and the Self-Belief Secret

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You know, I travel around the world and I've got to tell you, America is most definitely

the place on the planet that struggles with weight the most.

And that doesn't mean that weight issues in obesity don't exist in other places, but

the bottom line is our food is so corrupted.

And it's like there's this war going on between the ultra-fit and the ultra-fat.

Like you've got some people that they are die hard on the workout and they're running

and they're cardio and the strength training.

And then you've got the other people that just aren't thinking about it.

And if you're not careful, the food that we have lying around all day long, the amount

of celebrations and parties, it's constant, especially if it's sweet tooth, it's constant

cake and sweets and sugar and that they're infused now with as many addictive properties

as they can get away with.

And at the end of the day, it means that you could be a very reasonable person, but seriously

fighting the battle of the bulge.

I know that I felt that way for years.

I was like a six day a week gymmer and by going to the gym all that time, I was because

I was always trying to figure out how to get those 30 or 40 pounds off.

And I tried this diet and that diet.

And at the end of the day, I did something very different that changed it all for me and

caused me to lose the weight.

And that's what I want to share with you today that the real solution is not going to

be found in a specific meal plan and it's not going to be found in a specific gym exercise

program.

Today, I'm going to share with you that losing the weight might be more psychological than

you might be thinking.

It turns out that the secret to really losing weight has a lot less to do with what you

eat and how you work out.

Those things are most definitely important, but if you can't start with the right belief

system in your mind, you're really going to struggle to lose weight.

So I want to break it down for you.

I want to share an example with you.

Let's just say for a moment that you've got 50 pounds to lose and you need someone to

be there to judge you and your progress.

It's probably Mr. Scale.

You got a relationship with this guy.

It's probably love hate.

And let's talk about the first three weeks of every diet.

I don't care what the diet is.

You do it and you're sticking with it in the first week.

What's going to happen?

Oh, you're going to lose a bunch of weight.

Let's say you lose five pounds.

How do you feel?

Do you feel freaking amazing?

You're like, oh my gosh, it's like it's working.

Do you think you actually lost five pounds of fat?

No.

You lost water weight.

Are you kidding me?

You might have lost a little bit.

The body doesn't really lose more than one or two pounds of fat a week unless you're doing

something extraordinarily extreme.

But what do we do?

We like the number that we see on the scale so we get pumped up when we get excited and

confidence is up.

In the second week, you don't have that water weight to lose.

You only lose, let's say, two pounds.

But how are you feeling?

Freaking awesome.

I had 50 to lose.

I'm down seven pounds.

You're feeling awesome.

But guess what?

Almost always happens in the third week.

You gain weight.

Let's say that you gain a pound.

Now how are you feeling?

Do you feel horrible?

You're starting to doubt what went wrong.

I did everything in the third week that I did in the second week that I did in the first

week.

Guess what?

The body's recalibrating.

You've taken on some water weight or something is shifted or changed in the plan.

Bottom line is you never lost the seven pounds in the first place because what you're doing

is you're actually trusting the number on the scale.

What you're doing is you're trusting the wrong thing.

Let's do a different scenario though.

Let's just say for a moment that you could develop an as if belief.

I'm a huge believer in that.

You've seen me talk about this in videos.

Let's just say that you already saw yourself with the 50 pounds lost and let's just say

that you meditated on that a couple of minutes a day feeling fantastic.

By the way, how would you feel if you already lost all the weight in your mind?

You would feel just as excited as you are in real life.

So you're pumped.

Well, this time, week goes by, you get on the scale, you lost five pounds.

But instead of seeing the scale five pounds down, what are you celebrating?

Not that you lost five pounds, but you've lost 50 pounds because in your mind you're saying

I'm living as if I've already done it the next week.

The scale says you lost two pounds.

But in your mind, you've lost all 50.

So how are you feeling?

You're feeling freaking top of the world.

You did it.

You accomplished your goal.

You're feeling amazing.

The third week, you gain a pound.

But in your mind, you've lost the 50 pounds.

You're celebrating.

You're feeling good.

Listen, here's the reality.

If you listen to the scale, you're going to get off your diet because you're going to

lose confidence because you're not always going to lose weight and certainly not as

rapid as you would like.

And people get discouraged and then they bump out.

And what they're doing is they're developing a habit that says, I can do a diet for three

weeks and then I fall off the bandwagon.

Now your pattern might be different for you might be six weeks or might be five weeks

or it might be one week.

But here's what I want you to understand.

If you can't actually cultivate the self belief that allows you to celebrate your result

as if you've already achieved it, then you're screwed.

Because the scale is going to go up and down, up and down on the journey to losing all

of that weight.

And whether it takes you two years, whether it takes you two months, it's a journey and

it's not going to be always consistently lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose.

That's not reality.

The body doesn't work that way.

Your body morphs and changes and shrinks in a certain dynamic and at some point it's

doing something with muscle.

At some point it's doing something with fat and it's doing something with water.

And you can't tell the entire story by a scale.

So I will tell you what I recommend by way of diet and eating and exercise.

But before I do, here's where I really want you to understand.

I don't even care what the diet is.

They all work.

The question is, can you stick with it?

Whether you stick with it comes down, not to discipline alone.

It comes down to self belief.

It comes down to an inner conviction that you're willing to stick with something no matter

what through the highs and lows.

Otherwise you have a conditional relationship.

You're saying, if I lose weight, I'll use this tool.

If I gain weight, I won't use this tool.

But I'm telling you, every diet consists of mostly losing but sometimes gaining.

And if that erodes your confidence, then you're not going to stick with it and you're

going to feel bad.

And then what you really do is you're cultivating the habit of trying and failing and trying

and failing unnecessarily when what you really need to cultivate as I try and then I stick

with it.

Get your beliefs right.

Feel great about yourself.

Love your body.

Feel amazing about your body.

In your mind as I see the image of the body that you want and celebrate it every day.

And just know that every tenth of a pound you lose is progress.

And when you gain weight, if you've been doing everything right, it's still progress

but the scale can't tell you.

At some point in my journey, I did like a bodybuilding contest.

And one of the things that I learned, you have to do all of the measurements to know how

you're gaining muscle, how you're affecting your fats and your water.

And unless you measure all three, at some point the scale is just inaccurate and can only

get you frustrated and angry as heck.

Get the right mindset.

Believe in yourself.

Feel good about yourself.

And with that, let me share with you just a couple of last tricks.

Number one, I have found of all the things that I try that I really enjoy that is super

effective and works is I'm a fan of the keto diet.

Mostly because I love proteins and I like to sustain the muscle on my body.

And number two is I'll combine it with intermittent fasting, which means every day at the same

time I have a six-hour window for eating.

I don't eat in the morning.

I don't eat till noon.

And then I finish my last food at six.

And as long as I stick with keto or whatever you want in that zone, trust me.

Being in ketosis and having the intermittent fasting window open, dude, you're covered.

You're going to be in good shape and you're going to get really awesome results.

But for me, the other thing is besides the eating, you got to make time to go to the gym.

And you actually need to put on 10 pounds of muscle.

Every pound of muscle that is beyond your normal level of muscle burns about 100 calories

of fat.

So by the way, the whole purpose is not to become a muscle head.

It's to actually make it super easy to maintain your body by giving yourself the ability to

eat more.

If you like eating, you need more muscle.

That's like bottom line.

So put on 10 pounds and that can equate to an extra thousand calories a day that you

can consume without having any negative side effects on your body.

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