Are
you trying to climb the corporate ladder with excess weight?
As much as we all hate to admit it, climbing a career ladder
with excess weight is not much different than climbing a physical ladder
with excess weight. Either way, your progress is impeded.
What does being overweight tell your bosses?
What does
it tell your customers? What would being at your ideal weight do for your
productivity and your energy levels, not to mention your health?
Are you an overweight single who feels that your weight is an obstacle to
finding the love of your life? Again, as much as we hate
to admit it, people at their ideal weight are considered more attractive,
probably because they appear to be more healthy.
What does being overweight tell a potential ideal mate?
Have you used your weight to keep people at a distance? What would being at
your ideal weight do for your personal life?
Truth Time - CALCULATE YOUR BMI
Before reading any further, please take a minute to calculate your body mass index.
Know one will know but you. You will
need to know how tall you are in inches and how much you weigh. The calculation
is as follows:
Your weight, divided by your height in
inches, divided by your height in inches again, times 703
W / H / H X 703 = BMI
Here is an example assuming you weigh 200 lbs and are 5'9" tall:
200/69/69 X 703 =
29.53
According to the Center for Disease Control, you are overweight and
at risk for
heart disease, kidney disease, cancer, dementia and a host of other inflammatory
diseases.
Assuming that you are overweight or obese, and you have tried dieting, diet
pills, hypnosis or a host of other strategies to achieve your ideal weight with
dismal or non-permanent results, are you now ready to give up looking
externally
for the answer to your weight issue?
Are you ready to give up looking for that
ONE magic pill, that ONE easy diet, that ONE motivating statement that will help
you achieve your IDEAL weight?
What if I told you that the magic pill that you are looking for, you have
right now?
What if I told you that the one easy diet that you are looking for, you have
it at your fingertips?
What if I told you that the only obstacle to your ideal weight is the
programming in your brain, your core beliefs about food?
What if I told you that I can help you reprogram
your brain to rid yourself of those obstacles and frustrations that have
prevented you from achieving your ideal weight? And What If all you
needed to do was let go of your excuses and limiting beliefs?
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Could you do
that?
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Would you do
that?
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When?
Achieving your ideal weight is NOT
about will power. It's about imagination!
Emile
Coue’, the French psychologist, said that
imagination is greater than willpower!
This
means you can try hard to achieve a certain result, but the
images you hold in your mind will ultimately win out.
Often, a person will lose a certain number of pounds by
sheer willpower, and will succeed for awhile, only to gain
the weight back. This may be the result of the subconscious
mind: it has registered your body at a certain weight, which
is called a set point.
No
matter how hard you try, your weight will return again to
the set point. One of the ways to change the set point is
to visualize yourself at your ideal weight. The nervous
system will eventually accept the new image, establishing a
new set point, which will assist you in achieving your
desired result.
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Here is a story that speaks to the heart of core beliefs and how they hold us
prisoner.
A Prisoner of a Childhood Belief
A baby elephant caught in the wild is taught to "stay" in
place by wrapping a chain around its hind leg and attaching
that chain to a stake that has been driven up to eight feet
into the ground. No matter how hard it tries, it cannot get
loose. It will cry out for its mother, but she is not there
to rescue it, and the baby elephant soon gives up. As it
grows up, it no longer tries to escape, as it simply believes that
it cannot. The stake no longer needs to be driven eight feet
into the ground, as it has become more symbolic than real.
The stake is perhaps three feet into the ground, just deep
enough to require more than minimal effort to pull it up.
Now fully grown, the elephant could very easily pull that
stake up, but it no longer tries. Its childhood programming
is firmly established.
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Much of our childhood programming is the same as that baby
elephant, and it's time for an upgrade!
As your Ideal Weight Coach, I will help you explore your old programming and
show you how to upgrade that programming to better suit you as an adult. We will
not focus on weight loss; we will focus on achieving your ideal weight. There is
a BIG difference!
How is there a difference? Think about this: assume you are driving to
California. Would you focus on the road in front of you, or would you look in
your rear view mirror while you are driving?
Focusing on how much weight you need to lose is like
focusing on the rearview mirror, and it's not only depressing, but
it's difficult for the brain, because the amount of weight you need to lose is a
variable; that is, it is subject to change. Your ideal weight does NOT change.
That's the goal! That's California!
As you think about your future and how you would like to live it, I will
leave you with this story.
A Chance to Start
Over
It is now the year 2020, a little more than a decade from now,
and you are in the hospital suffering from heart disease,
diabetes, and a host of other diseases associated with an
unhealthy weight and life style. You are not expected to live
much longer. The night nurse just checked your blood pressure
and left, leaving you all alone. As you cry
yourself to sleep, another nurse enters your room. You don't
recognize him. He moves toward your bed and holds out his hand.
It has a strange looking object in it. He asks you to take it
and hold it tightly in your hand. He explains that with this
object, you may have one wish, and only one wish. You wipe your
tears away, and think very hard. Moments later, you make your
one wish. You want to live your life over again! You hand the
object back to the nurse and he leaves the room. You fall deep
asleep, but when you wake up, you are back to today, safe and in
your own home. How will you live your life this time? The choice
is entirely yours to make.
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