So you want to lose weight, but nothing works! You’re doing it WRONG! (5 min read)

So you want to lose weight, but nothing works! You’re doing it WRONG! 

Follow the stories and tell me if any of these are you.

The Weight Loss battle

I have struggled with weight my whole life.

I have joined every gym in my area trying to find the “thing” that will motivate me to be able to lose this extra weight that I’ve been struggling with for so long.

I have started and stopped diets and been a part of every nutrition trend online. I’ve gone paleo, tried supplements,  done keto, played with fasting and every other thing the internet has put in front of me.

But for some reason, it only works for a short while. I lose some weight, start feeling great and then, something crazy in my life rears it’s ugly head and starts dragging me back into my old habits.

The sad thing is, I always lose to it. No matter how much I try to fight through it, I try to change my habits or create a “positive” thought process, It always beats me.

And that plays on my mind, almost every day.

It has created a terrible cycle of fear, self doubt and self sabotage.

All that work. All that sweat and pain only to fall back into the same rut as I have been in, so many times before.

This is one of the great weight loss battles that people face every day. So what can you do about it? 

It’s simple really. 

You need to change. Something. Possibly many things. 

But the first thing you need to change is your process. 

Your problem is that you your chasing weight loss, which is a symptom of lifestyle choices. 

When you chase something or you try to fix something, you need to focus on the cause, not on the symptom, because you might get momentary relief, but it’s going to come back. 

So try this, choose 4 simple things that you know negatively impact your weight on a daily or weekly basis. 

Write them down.

Then write down next to them, a positive twist to that exact same habit. 

“How can you modify it so that it positively impacts your lifestyle, instead of negatively impacting your lifestyle?”

Do that for 12 weeks. And let me know if you notice a difference. 

Here are some ideas that you could use:

  • I eat junk food every day – – – – I eat fruit every day
  • I have a gym membership, but I don’t use it – – – – I make sure I go to the gym 3 times a week, even if it’s just for 10 mins.
  • I don’t drink water – – – – I drink a glass of water with every meal
  • I forget to eat, so i binge eat at night – – – – I have an alarm that tells me when to eat so i don’t binge eat at night.
  • I have a chocolate addiction – – – – I still have a chocolate addiction, but I only buy a small chocolate when I would normally by a block
  • I don’t like to lift weights – – – – I do some form of resistance training every week
  • My anxiety prevents me from walking into the gym – – – – My anxiety prevents me from staying the way I am.

You shouldn’t sugar coat weight loss (pun intended). 

It’s simple, and it takes time. 

Make some effective changes now and focus on them for the next few weeks. 

Once they become a part fo your lifestyle, then add a few new things. 

Rapid weight loss is rarely sustainable. Consistent changes to lifestyle and consistent growth is.

And it works.

-Image credit medical news today https://www.medicalnewstoday.com

2019-09-29T13:19:22+10:00

About the Author:

Denee Lalouette
A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY. PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training. We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way. We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general. A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness. The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal. For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else. As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own . This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body. A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them. UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry. Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System. This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business. See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.

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