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If you want to lose weight so you can have a weight loss success story you need to adjust the total package  of your life.  You can not lose weight in one corner of your life without making adjustments in your total life.  In order to be able to lose the weight and be able to keep the weight off for the rest of your life you need to make changes throughout your lifestyle.  If you want to lose 100 pounds you will not be able to make it fall of by walking 20 minutes every three days and not changing your eating habits.  If you want to lose weight you need to change the total package or any weight loss will not last.  To lose the weight and to be able to keep it off you need a change that will encompass many areas of your life such as your mind, your emotions, your body and possibly even your soul.

Your mind:  Any weight loss you achieve or do not achieve will always begin in your mind or actually your thought process.  In short, your body will always follow where your mind tells it to go.   All actions or in actions begin with the single thought and that thought grows into either action or inaction.  If you get the mind in the right mode, the body will follow.  Some people refer to this as will power while others refer to it as discipline.  What ever you desire to call it, the mind is where all actions start and weight loss is no exception.

Your emotions:  All too often people get swept up into their own emotions and allow the actions they take to be effected.  To make a case in point some people think they have to eat when in front of the television.  Others feel as if they can’t enjoy a movie at the theatre unless they have a huge popcorn and a soda with a box of candy.  Some people co-mingle emotions with habit for a deadly combination.  This is when emotional eating is often triggered.  If a person fees sad they want ice cream.  If you feel jilted you may turn to chocolate.  All too often people allow food to be filtered into their life when their emotions start to swerve out of the norm of a typical day.  In order to not let emotions destroy you weight loss attempt you need to recognize emotions for what they are.  No person can wrap their emotions and ignore them for that would be very unhealthy.  What you need to do is to recognize what triggers your emotions to cause you to want to binge on a food or snack and then allow your mind to control your actions.  If you just have to have that chocolate your mind is the one that permits not only the first piece but also the eighteenth piece.  Somewhere between the acceptable first piece you need to control the quantity before the eighteenth piece.   Your emotions and your mind need to become the controlling influence that will allow you to be a success in your weight loss attempt.

 Your body:  Your body is what it is all about.  it is where the weight loss happens or does not happen.  If you want to lose weight you need to get the body in motion.  Without motion you will need to either have gastric bypass surgery or accept the fact you will always have a weight problem.  In order to get the body moving it goes back to emotions.  Your emotions control your wants and your desires and in the case of weight loss your wanting is never going to be enough without action.  In order to lose weight you need to want to lose weight (mind) and then act on that want (emotions) to get the body in motion.  Without the mind and the motivating emotions you will never get out the door for that walk or that trip to the health club.   All weight loss attempts that work combines the mind and the body through the emotions.  When those emotions are channeled to endure through prolonged motivation the result is weight loss. 

Your soul:  The end result of actual weight loss that endures through your life will rattle your very soul.  When you achieve weight loss you start to feel good about yourself.  Many of the negative thoughts you experienced when you were over weight fade away.  As an over weight person you spend too much time feeling negative about yourself.  Too many over weight people feel poorly about many choices in their life.  We are not trying to say you cannot be happy if you are overweight.  We are only bringing to the surface the negative emotions obese people waste energy on in their daily life.  When a person loses the weight the soul becomes lighter as well as the body.

As you can now see that if a person truly desires to lose weight they must change the entire package.  That package includes not only your belly, but also your mind, your body and even a portion of your life’s essence, which is your very soul.

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