Exercise and Weight Loss, Dieting and The Evil Twin

I have been trying to lose weight for years.  I read all of the facts about how being obese hurts my health and well being, yet I still cannot stick with a diet or a meal plan.  I get started and do great dieting, for awhile, and then one day I start to slip and falter and the downward slide towards diet failure begins once again.  I then wake up one day and the diet is essentially over and I have gained more weight, once again.

Does that sound familiar?  Is this the story of your life?  If so, you are not alone.

When you are talking weight loss and you have an issue that you cannot stick with your weight loss goals, it is very similar to having two people living inside your body.  On one side there is the person that you feel is “you” and that person tries to get centered in the good things of life.  This “you” is what most believe is the real, physical being that lives and walks the Earth.  If that is the case and this “you” is who you believe you are….then who is the other person that eats the ice cream and fails at the weight loss attempt?  Is there an evil twin living inside that drags you down the wrong path? 

Throughout history there have been many people that had identity issues and committed heinous crimes when they were not able to control their actions.  Those very same people did things that they were not able to control and they lost their identity and their conscious reality that propelled them to do things they would have never done otherwise.  Are you the same?  Are you a person that has a silent war going on inside that is silently screaming for attention?  If you are always failing to lose weight there needs to be a reason, is that reason the fact that there are two people living inside one head?  Is this the cause for depression in some people? 

For the average person reading this the answer is a simple and curt…”No!”  For the average person looking to lose weight it is all a matter of not only choices, but also motivation and the desire for change.  There may be a bit of a lack of willpower thrown into the mix, but the reality is the lack of sustained motivation,because of the repetitive history of failure after failure.  For those of you new to the Law of Attraction let me explain, very briefly.  For me to try to explain the Law of Attraction here and now would be equivalent to teaching you the Bible in five minutes.  It would not be possible, because even at it’s basic tenet the Law of Attraction is simplistically complex.

On the fringes of the Law of Attraction the basic understanding is that you get returned to you (in life) what you dwell upon in your thoughts.  If you fear you will die of cancer, you have a greater chance of developing cancer.  If you your thoughts dwell on being poor, you remain poor.  If your thoughts dwell upon the fact that the Lord will always give you enough to “get by”, you will always…just “get by.”  If your thoughts spend too much time fearing weight loss failure, then you have increased your odds of the universe handing you, yet another failure.  A great contemporary thinker, Dr. Wayne Dyer, has a simple and yet awesome response to the fact that you are having trouble losing weight.  He has written a wonderful and easy to read book entitled Excuses Begone!
The pages in his book can lift your weight loss attempts out of the past and into the present moment.  Dr. Dyer has simply stated that the best way to combat your demons is to stop living in the past, and stop living in the future.  A person needs to start living, “in the now, in the moment, in the here and now.”  The past is over, the future is not here yet and the only thing you have going for your weight loss attempt is this moment and this moment is all you really need to lose weight.

If you live in the moment your past will not run you over as you try to make the changes in your daily life.  If you live for the moment you start to notice the wonders of the world.  You see the clouds and notice the wind, and in my case, see the feather tumbling down the aisle in retail store.  By living in the now you begin to understand that there is no evil twin, there is no such thing as an excuse, there are only the choices that we make.  Those choices are made moment by moment and they form the building block of what we are and what we can become.  If we dwell on our failures, failure is what we will receive. 

The Law of Attraction is about as simple as to explain as Christianity.  It is only when we dig deep and interject our thoughts and our questions does it start to become muddied up.  Only when we start throwing gunk into the formula do we start to slow down and stop manifesting the future we so much desire. 

As you try to live in the moment and create the life and the body you desire just try to make the best decision right now because that decision is the only one that really matters.