The mindset you need to lose weight for good

Most people think the biggest roadblock to weight loss is either more information or more willpower.

Those things are a factor in getting and keeping the weight off, but they’re not the biggest roadblock.

The biggest roadblock is thinking that you can go back to your old ways.

But that’s like saying you can burn yourself on the stove, wait for the burn to heal, then go put your hand on that hot burner and expect not to get burned again.

You absolutely will get burned again, and if you go back to your old ways, you absolutely will regain the weight.

The most common reason people go back to their old ways is because they think (or hope) they can get away with it.

Let’s say popcorn triggers you into binge eating for twenty straight hours.

You go for six months without popcorn, decide you’ve done really well, and that it’s time to get back to having popcorn. After all, “just one bite” won’t hurt anything, right?

Wrong.

You take just one bite and it turns into 500 bites.

Clearly, popcorn is not something you can eat “just one bite of,” so ideally, you’d never eat popcorn again.

Instead, you’d make it a food boundary to never buy popcorn, and never put it in your mouth if you end up around someone who’s eating it, because it triggers you to binge eat.

Cutting popcorn (or whatever foods trigger you) out of your life permanently is the kind of mindset it takes to permanently lose weight.

Yet most people hate the idea of doing that.

They want permanent results from temporary changes, even though it’s impossible to get permanent results from temporary changes.

Don’t believe me?

What would happen if you took one shower and then never showered again? Would you stay clean?

How about brushing your teeth. Will that keep your teeth and gums healthy for the rest of your life?

One trip to the grocery store doesn’t give you permanent access to food.

One withdrawal from your bank doesn’t give you permanent access to money.

And temporary healthy eating won’t lead to permanent weight loss.

To get and keep the weight off, get and keep the trigger foods (and habits) out of your life.

Set food boundaries to protect you, and refuse to cross them.

Eat the right real foods, drink water, and sleep, so you aren’t accidentally triggering yourself into a never-ending food spiral because you aren’t getting nutrients AND you’re eating foods chemically engineered to trigger addiction in your brain.

You CAN get AND keep the weight off.

But it won’t happen with a mindset of “temporary.”

It can only happen with a mindset of “this is for life,” followed up with action to ensure that your dietary and lifestyle changes stick.


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