The #1 Cause Of Weight Loss Failure

Have you ever wondered why it is that some people fail to lose weight or to keep the weight off once they?ve lost it - while their neighbor, who followed the same diet and workout was far more successful? Well, telling you what the ?key? or the ?secret? is, isn?t difficult, however taking action on this principle might be the hardest thing you ever do. You see, the key to all success when it comes to weight loss, health enhancement, muscle building, energy increase, and so on ? has nothing to do with exercising more, or dieting harder ? in fact it has nothing at all to do with either of those two techniques. I?m certainly not saying that diet and exercise aren?t vital aspects of good health and building a tight, lean, sexy body ? but there?s one additional aspect that helps you lose weight much faster, and literally makes your weight loss permanent? ?and that ?key to success? is to alter your mindset as it relates to your body. Most people think negative thoughts about their body, they dislike working out, they hate to follow a healthy diet, and they certainly don?t enjoy avoiding those things that caused them to gain weigh in the first place ? but there?s a way to fix all this and set yourself up for lifelong success ? and to me that means living life in the body you deserve to live life in ? a strong, healthy, tight body ? a body that others admire ? a body that you?re proud of ? a body that?s full of energy all day every day. Here?s the formula: 1. Fix in your mind the precise goal you wish to reach, and make sure that it?s something that?s both measurable and specific. A vague goal, such as ?I want to be fit,? gives you nothing to shoot for. Decide when and what you are going to achieve, such as ?I want to reduce my body fat by two percentage points by the 1st of September.? Be sure to take whatever steps are needed to assess your progress. In this example, you need to know your current percentage of body fat (get it tested?it shouldn?t cost more than $20 at any good health club) and then monitor it on a weekly basis thereafter. 2. Determine exactly how you are going to achieve your goal. This step of the goal-setting process calls for some planning on your part, since you?ve got to know how the Maximize Your Metabolism program will play out in your life. Set short-term goals as steppingstones to your ultimate (long-term) goals. If your long-term goal is to be able to bench press 200 pounds within a year?s time, set short-term (weekly or monthly) goals for the weight you will need to be able to bench press at each stage in order to achieve your long-term goal. In other words, develop a plan. It?s a lot easier to limit yourself to thinking about accomplishing your goal just a little at a time, such as increasing your bench press by 2.5 or 5 pounds a week, than to have the specter of the whole thing (such as increasing your bench press by 50 pounds) hanging over your head. 3. Select a timetable for the attainment of your goal. Predicting the rate at which weight loss will occur, through caloric restriction and increased physical activity, will take some calculation and some imagination on your part. Without a timetable to plot your course, it will be difficult to make firm connections between the fading past and the unseen future. To make this association more explicit, keep a logbook of your dieting progress. Although these dieting diaries are sometimes viewed as tedious, pencil-pushing exercises, they?re quite valuable, not only for charting progress but also for reviving spirits that flag and re-energizing motivation that founders. Besides, it can be fun?perhaps even educational?to read them in later months or years. 4. Decide what you?ll do to prevent relapses in your program?and to meet them head-on if they occur. To accomplish this step, you?ll need to deliberate and make contracts with yourself. Much of what you have done in your dieting past has been correct. Repeating your past dieting successes will bring you even closer to victory this time. 5. The fifth and final step is to write a clear, concise success statement. Then, once you?ve written it, read it aloud to yourself three or more times each day, including once just after waking up in the morning and once right before going to bed at night. As you read your success statement, see, feel, and believe you have already reached your weight-loss goal, visualizing yourself from head to toe in top shape and full of energy, mentally and physically. Read the statement with feeling, and feel great when you say it. Here?s an example of what a goal statement might look like: I weigh 135 [or your goal weight], and I look and feel great. I love showing off my tight body. People congratulate me daily on my achievement. I reached my goal by following every step of the Maximize your Metabolism program. Read this statement out loud to yourself at least three times a day. Memorize it. This is one of the most important psychological tools you can use to train your subconscious mind to help you reach your goals. Each time you read your success statement, you are sending subliminal suggestions to your subconscious, suggestions which it must eventually heed. The more often you repeat your affirmation in a positive, emotional state, the faster it will sink into your subconscious. And remember: your subconscious mind reacts best to these suggestions when they are drenched in desire-supporting emotions and any other imagery from the five senses that you can provide. I?ve personally found that those who see their affirmation often throughout the day, every day without fail, are the ones who attain success the fastest, and with the least effort. But you might say??hey I?ve got a life to live, I can?t be spending all my time reading an affirmation ? I need to be living my life and earning a living.? And I completely agree? So here?s the challenge ? if you see or read your affirmation a few times each day it?ll only take a few minutes out of your day, but will probably only get you a few small results, and to top that off, most folks stop reading their affirmation after a few days or a few weeks. However, if you could find a way to set this on autopilot ? then increase it?s frequency 10 fold, you wouldn?t get 10 times faster results, rather, you would get 10?10 more results because the process of programming your mind is exponential. The software program which I spoke about earlier will automatically flash your affirmation on the screen of your computer more than 28,000 for each 8 hour work day - that?s about 1 time every second !!! Your conscious mind will barely see the flash, however your subconscious mind WILL pick it up, because your subconscious mind picks everything up and stores it ? and your subconscious mind is what makes change in your life possible!

Article Tag Line: Christopher Guerriero, is the founder of the National Metabolic & Longevity Research Center and a best-selling author, speaker, and coach to millions. He is creator of the award-winning ?Maximize Your Metabolism? system. To learn more about this step-by-step program, and to sign up for FR*EE how-to articles and F.REE teleseminars, visit: www.MaximizeYourMetabolism.com