“Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat?”
“Increase Your Weight Loss By A Whopping 70%”
“Drop 2 Dress Sizes In Just Minutes A Day.”
“Discover the Natural Fat Loss Magnet.”
“Lose Up to 25 Pounds In Just 6 Weeks”
These are the subject lines of e-mails I’ve received in the past few weeks.
My favorite? “Drop Up To 17 Pounds Without Trying.”
We want things to happen fast.
We want things to be easy.
And we want dramatic, miraculous change with little or no effort on our part. “Without trying” we want to shed the result of years of poor choices (and poor thinking) in “just six weeks.”
What we want is a miracle, and the desire for a miracle pushes us to look for miracles in the form a pill, or a berry, or a shake, or a diet, or a surgery, or a reality television program . . .
And while those miracles can create amazing, fast, and dramatic transformations, in many cases, those transformations are external. However, for people who are successful in releasing excess weight and living their life in a lighter body, the biggest transformation is not an external one. It’s internal.
The biggest change happens when we change our thinking. The biggest change happens when we realize that nothing outside of ourselves can really give us what we want. Sure, some of those things can provide a quick fix, but the most lasting path to healthful, lasting weight loss happens when we change our thinking, when we change our beliefs about ourselves and our worth and “deservingness,” and it happens when we intentionally begin to say kind things to ourselves and treat ourselves as we would our best friend.
The secret to successful weight loss? It’s not about transforming your body.
It’s about transforming your thinking.
It really is a inside job.
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