The Wishy Washy Weight Loss Plan
You're cleaning out some old things and you find some pictures of yourself taken a couple of years earlier. Wow, you think to yourself, I looked really great back then. But you look at yourself now. Overweight and just gaining more. Okay you say. Enough is enough. You've got to do something about your weight. Yes, you've said that before, but this time is different.
So you head to the gym the next day and really hit the treadmill. You even had a salad for lunch and not a single candy bar crossed your lips. You keep this up for a couple of days, but you slowly slide back into your old habits. What went wrong?
It's All in the Plan
There's a proverbs quote that goes "He who fails to plan, plans to fail." It was true when Solomon wrote it thousands of years ago and it's true today.
The reason for your lack of success wasn't because you couldn't or didn't want to succeed. It was because of that same mistake 95% of dieters make every time they start a diet: They don't plan.
Think about it. Everything that takes any significant time to finish starts with a plan: graduating from school, learning how to play an instrument, starting a business. All requires planning and if not by you, then by someone else.
If you want to be successful at losing weight or anything significant in your life, you're going to need a plan.
The Weight Loss Plan
The easiest way for most of us is to have someone else create a weight loss plan for us, which is cool. You get the whole diet and exercise plan laid out for you. It gives you what foods to eat and when, as well as what exercise to perform and how often.
But if you want to increase your odds at succeeding, you need to take the advice of personal-success author, Napoleon Hill. He said, "Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
Not to get to new-age on you, but there is something magical about writing out your goals. I think that the reason it's so effective is that it just forces you to think more intensely about what you want, embedding it more deeply in your mind.
Whatever the reason, just be sure you try it. It may be the difference between you saying to yourself again "What went wrong?" instead of "Yes, I did it!"
So you head to the gym the next day and really hit the treadmill. You even had a salad for lunch and not a single candy bar crossed your lips. You keep this up for a couple of days, but you slowly slide back into your old habits. What went wrong?
It's All in the Plan
There's a proverbs quote that goes "He who fails to plan, plans to fail." It was true when Solomon wrote it thousands of years ago and it's true today.
The reason for your lack of success wasn't because you couldn't or didn't want to succeed. It was because of that same mistake 95% of dieters make every time they start a diet: They don't plan.
Think about it. Everything that takes any significant time to finish starts with a plan: graduating from school, learning how to play an instrument, starting a business. All requires planning and if not by you, then by someone else.
If you want to be successful at losing weight or anything significant in your life, you're going to need a plan.
The Weight Loss Plan
The easiest way for most of us is to have someone else create a weight loss plan for us, which is cool. You get the whole diet and exercise plan laid out for you. It gives you what foods to eat and when, as well as what exercise to perform and how often.
But if you want to increase your odds at succeeding, you need to take the advice of personal-success author, Napoleon Hill. He said, "Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
Not to get to new-age on you, but there is something magical about writing out your goals. I think that the reason it's so effective is that it just forces you to think more intensely about what you want, embedding it more deeply in your mind.
Whatever the reason, just be sure you try it. It may be the difference between you saying to yourself again "What went wrong?" instead of "Yes, I did it!"