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important thing in common: They have a positive mindset. They love the way they feel, enjoy food more, possess new stress-management tools, and have activities that make them feel great.
Although you may be starting this new journey excited and motivated, if you're honest with yourself, you'll probably realize that you're still thinking some negative thoughts like
I'm going to have to give up foods I love.
I'll try it, but I don't know if it'll work.
I'm going to have to exercise — and I hate exercising.
If you don't get these negative thoughts in check, self-sabotage can rear its ugly head. It turns obstacles and challenges into reasons to give up. These saboteurs show up as
Decreased focus on absorbing new information
Feeling defeated with normal challenges
Letting other areas of your life always take priority
Having no time for finding out about and trying new changes
Okay, so you get that you need a positive mindset to stay on track, but how exactly do you do that? Follow these three simple steps:
1. Create a vision.
2. Turn that vision into an affirmation.
3. Focus on using positive language in all situations.
The following sections cover each of these steps in more detail to help you put them together to create your own positive mindset about your new low-glycemic lifestyle.
Creating your vision
The first step to creating a positive mindset is to come up with your long-term goal, which I like to call your vision. Your vision is how you see the big picture, your plan that always serves to motivate you. Visions motivate because they're your ultimate desires of how you want to see your life play out. After all, you have to know where you're going before you can take the first steps to get there.
To create your vision, first think of some internal reasons why you want to lose weight and why you want to follow a low-glycemic diet in particular. Internal reasons are things that are life changing, such as improved health or becoming more active with your family and friends. Your internal goal calls on you to live your best life.
Even though weight loss is the top priority in your mind, when your goals are simply to lose weight or fit into a certain size, they aren't meaningful enough to help you through challenges. How the weight loss changes your life, not your waistline, is what's meaningful.
So instead of thinking about your ideal body weight, think about what you want your ideal body to be. Other than sizes and numbers on the scale, what types of changes do you want to see by following a low-glycemic diet? Perhaps you'll increase your energy throughout the day, orybe your new diet will help you feel strong and vital and keep you healthy and vibrant. Many people choose a low-glycemic diet because of specific health issues, so perhaps you expect a low-glycemic diet to help you get your blood sugar under control, decrease inflammation, or even aid with fertility (depending on your personal circumstances).
Take some time to create your vision. The more excited you are about your inner picture, the more of an active role you'll take toward your weight-loss goals. Here's a sample that illustrates how you can weave your internal reasons into your vision:
My vision is to lose enough weight so I can lower my blood pressure and be able to have the endurance and energy to join my family members on their annual backpacking trip so I can experience new adventures in my life. I want to feel comfortable, fit, and energetic.
To overcome the day-to-day obstacles, your vision must be greater than your challenges. These obstacles mask themselves as "no time," "the kids," "my job," and the like. They're all the "yeah, buts . . ." that come up for every single person. That doesn't mean these obstacles aren't real. On the contrary, they're very real. But when you have an inspiring vision, it's powerful enough to motivate you to get around these obstacles. People who've lost weight and kept it off have at least
Although you may be starting this new journey excited and motivated, if you're honest with yourself, you'll probably realize that you're still thinking some negative thoughts like
I'm going to have to give up foods I love.
I'll try it, but I don't know if it'll work.
I'm going to have to exercise — and I hate exercising.
If you don't get these negative thoughts in check, self-sabotage can rear its ugly head. It turns obstacles and challenges into reasons to give up. These saboteurs show up as
Decreased focus on absorbing new information
Feeling defeated with normal challenges
Letting other areas of your life always take priority
Having no time for finding out about and trying new changes
Okay, so you get that you need a positive mindset to stay on track, but how exactly do you do that? Follow these three simple steps:
1. Create a vision.
2. Turn that vision into an affirmation.
3. Focus on using positive language in all situations.
The following sections cover each of these steps in more detail to help you put them together to create your own positive mindset about your new low-glycemic lifestyle.
Creating your vision
The first step to creating a positive mindset is to come up with your long-term goal, which I like to call your vision. Your vision is how you see the big picture, your plan that always serves to motivate you. Visions motivate because they're your ultimate desires of how you want to see your life play out. After all, you have to know where you're going before you can take the first steps to get there.
To create your vision, first think of some internal reasons why you want to lose weight and why you want to follow a low-glycemic diet in particular. Internal reasons are things that are life changing, such as improved health or becoming more active with your family and friends. Your internal goal calls on you to live your best life.
Even though weight loss is the top priority in your mind, when your goals are simply to lose weight or fit into a certain size, they aren't meaningful enough to help you through challenges. How the weight loss changes your life, not your waistline, is what's meaningful.
So instead of thinking about your ideal body weight, think about what you want your ideal body to be. Other than sizes and numbers on the scale, what types of changes do you want to see by following a low-glycemic diet? Perhaps you'll increase your energy throughout the day, orybe your new diet will help you feel strong and vital and keep you healthy and vibrant. Many people choose a low-glycemic diet because of specific health issues, so perhaps you expect a low-glycemic diet to help you get your blood sugar under control, decrease inflammation, or even aid with fertility (depending on your personal circumstances).
Take some time to create your vision. The more excited you are about your inner picture, the more of an active role you'll take toward your weight-loss goals. Here's a sample that illustrates how you can weave your internal reasons into your vision:
My vision is to lose enough weight so I can lower my blood pressure and be able to have the endurance and energy to join my family members on their annual backpacking trip so I can experience new adventures in my life. I want to feel comfortable, fit, and energetic.
To overcome the day-to-day obstacles, your vision must be greater than your challenges. These obstacles mask themselves as "no time," "the kids," "my job," and the like. They're all the "yeah, buts . . ." that come up for every single person. That doesn't mean these obstacles aren't real. On the contrary, they're very real. But when you have an inspiring vision, it's powerful enough to motivate you to get around these obstacles. People who've lost weight and kept it off have at least
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