Rewired - Mindset Shifts for Weight Loss: Recent Episodes
DoU Fitness
Quick 5 minute pods of all things Mindset, encouragement, fitness, and nutrition. Helping you to make the necessary shifts in your mind to help you achieve weight loss goals. If you are new and want to do a marathon listen - you can skim the the area you are seeking – Mindset (M). Encouragement (E). Diet (D). Fitness (F).
We all want instant results. Can't stand the waiting for the weight to come off. How not managing this will cause you to give up.
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How one thought can throw you off your game. You can be feeling like you are losing weight, you are feeling great, then something happens and shifts your thoughts to feeling fat - Then it just goes down hill from there.
What does all in look like to you? Does it have to be crazy and excessive or could it also mean being "all in" by determining you won't give up this time?
If I exercise everyday how much faster will I reach my goal? Can I run everyday so I reach my goal quicker? How this type of thinking will set you up for failure in the long run.
Probably the 3 biggest weight loss mistakes I see are:
impatience
Not knowing how much you are eating
Starving yourself
Stoping those negative thoughts in their tracks. Your thoughts have a direct reflection of your outcomes - so keep those negative thoughts at bay so you can progress more easily.
What if you were to just try to improve 8% per month. Work on adjusting a habit by a mere 8%...what seems like such a tiny amount would add up drastically by the end of the year
Tracking your food intake is hard. Exercising is hard. But feeling fat is hard. Not feeling confident is hard. What hard will you choose?
How about trying to set your goals this year with a different approach? Reach your goals by focusing on actions you have control over versus only results.
Is there a magic pill that can help you lose fat? Are fat burners fact or fiction? How should you use fat burners most efficiently?
Are you pushing yourself during your workouts? Are you giving A+ effort to produce A+ results? How to get the most out of your workouts....
So you finally get yourself from not believing you can reach your goal to believing you can do it. How do you get yourself from belief to knowing without a doubt that you will get the weight loss and body you are after?
Can you remember the turning point where you looked in the mirror and said “yikes” I got fat? Do you recall why or how you started gaining weight? Can you identify the culprit to your weight gain? Finding the root cause will help you to not fall back into the old patterns once you’ve achieved your weight loss. Fixing this will further strengthen your success and maintaining results.
What is one belief that could be getting in your way of weight loss? Today I’ll touch on what I believe is the #1 limiting belief standing in the way for most.