Have you ever just wanted to kick yourself for not listening to yourself?  I know I have.  In fact, as a speaker I have been telling other people the keys to being fit.  I am going to admit that sometimes the hardest person to motivate is myself. 

I bet I am not alone.  I see people every year come off  The Biggest Loser vowing never to gain weight back or put all their weight back on.  Guess what, every year someone who said those words in front of millions inevitably does the exact thing they said they wouldn’t.

I’ve experienced it myself.  I gained weight after the show.  I am talking about weight beyond the simple act of re hydrating after cutting weight for the finale.  In fact,  I got myself fat again.  I believe a lot of it had to do with focusing so hard on not gaining weight again.

Let me explain what I mean.  I have found in my own life that what I focus on is what I get.  More specifically, the way I speak internally almost always manifests itself.  Did you know that studies have shown that our subconscience is not capable of interpreting negative words?  If I say “Don’t eat that brownie.”  My subconscious mind hears “Eat that brownie.”  It has been proven over and over that no matter how many times we put a negative word in front of a comment to our self we don’t hear it.

When it comes to weight gain I have found that the more I focus on what I don’t want to do the more I am drawn to it.  “Don’t eat too much.”  is a signal to my brain to go for it. ”Don’t sleep in tomorrow.” almost always lead to extra time in bed.

Positive phrases yield positive results.  ” I want to eat lean meats and veggies and drink more water.”  leads me to crave those things.  Our brains are like giant computers that need to have data input manually.  The type of data we put in is the type of results we get.  Make sense?

To be successful we need to be constantly feeding ourselves positive input.  Leave off the negatives when you talk to yourself and see what happens in your own life.  I am going to set a goal to do this for one week.  I hope you will join me and I will revisit this topic next week.  Let’s see what happens when we listen to our own positive advice!

See you tomorrow!

Biggest Loser, curb cravings, diet, losing weight, Matt Hoover, mental, workout frustration

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