Comments on: It’s More Than Willpower: The Psychology of Successful Weight Loss http://www.allstarhealth.com/blog/fatloss/psychology-of-weight-loss/ Nutrition Questions & Answers, News, Research and Supplement Product Information Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:32:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jim Cabeceiras http://www.allstarhealth.com/blog/fatloss/psychology-of-weight-loss/#comment-244 Jim Cabeceiras Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:29:35 +0000 http://www.allstarhealth.com/blog/?p=705#comment-244 Good points on the mindset. Take it a step further and offer dieters a roadmap to success. Explain why we resist positive change. Give us methods to treat ourselves as 'flawed' and give in to temptation or cravings in a selective way - yet, still be successful with permanent weight loss. Dieters fail because they view dieting as temporary - with a start and an end. The result is failure. Everyone has a 'fingerprint' mental profile, with entirely different sets of emotional and impulse control issues, but there are solutions that work on everyone. Substitution Therapy (how to deal with the emotional stess and distract yourself from an emotional void), meditation techniques (dieting will always be 99% psychological), how to 'visualize' your outcome (critical for success in anything you do). Conscious stress has to evolve into an almost subconcious behavior. The healthy model of a successful dieter is based on this evolution. Bottom line, it can take up to two years or more to 'kill off' poor habits. It's a true mourning process, like the death of a loved one, because you have to kill off some of your past attitudes. Taking yourself off sugar, limitng starches, limitng fat - all take time to evolve into a daily habit instead of a daily 'white knuckle, will power' effort that seems overwhelming. You are dead on about successful dieters. They don't micro-manage. They are 'big picture' people. They visualize themselves, even in old age, as lean and active. I can talk to someone for only a few minutes and determine whether they are emtionally ready to start a diet. Most are not. The Diet Industry only adds to the problem. They want to sell product - they could care less about what it really takes to change for 50 years instead of 50 days. Interested in more? Check our my book, 'The Untold Secrets of Permanent Weight Loss'. Jim Cabeceiras Good points on the mindset. Take it a step further and offer dieters a roadmap to success. Explain why we resist positive change. Give us methods to treat ourselves as ‘flawed’ and give in to temptation or cravings in a selective way - yet, still be successful with permanent weight loss. Dieters fail because they view dieting as temporary - with a start and an end. The result is failure. Everyone has a ‘fingerprint’ mental profile, with entirely different sets of emotional and impulse control issues, but there are solutions that work on everyone. Substitution Therapy (how to deal with the emotional stess and distract yourself from an emotional void), meditation techniques (dieting will always be 99% psychological), how to ‘visualize’ your outcome (critical for success in anything you do). Conscious stress has to evolve into an almost subconcious behavior. The healthy model of a successful dieter is based on this evolution. Bottom line, it can take up to two years or more to ‘kill off’ poor habits. It’s a true mourning process, like the death of a loved one, because you have to kill off some of your past attitudes. Taking yourself off sugar, limitng starches, limitng fat - all take time to evolve into a daily habit instead of a daily ‘white knuckle, will power’ effort that seems overwhelming. You are dead on about successful dieters. They don’t micro-manage. They are ‘big picture’ people. They visualize themselves, even in old age, as lean and active. I can talk to someone for only a few minutes and determine whether they are emtionally ready to start a diet. Most are not. The Diet Industry only adds to the problem. They want to sell product - they could care less about what it really takes to change for 50 years instead of 50 days.

Interested in more? Check our my book, ‘The Untold Secrets of Permanent Weight Loss’.

Jim Cabeceiras

]]> By: Joyntheir http://www.allstarhealth.com/blog/fatloss/psychology-of-weight-loss/#comment-164 Joyntheir Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:24:05 +0000 http://www.allstarhealth.com/blog/?p=705#comment-164 Preach on! Amen and Amen Mindset and its partner self-image will either make you or break you in any weight loss/management. You have to believe that you are 'worthy' of being healthy and slimmer as well as believing in yourself. If you don't have the mindset that you can actually lose the weight, you are left at the starting gate. And the mindset to lose for the sake of others does not work nearly as well as losing for yourself and your health. Preach on! Amen and Amen
Mindset and its partner self-image will either make you or break you in any weight loss/management. You have to believe that you are ‘worthy’ of being healthy and slimmer as well as believing in yourself. If you don’t have the mindset that you can actually lose the weight, you are left at the starting gate. And the mindset to lose for the sake of others does not work nearly as well as losing for yourself and your health.

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