Weight loss boot camp – pleasure or pain?

When you get up in the morning, what motivates you to get out of bed? Do you lie there for as long as you can until the unpleasant consequences of not getting up e.g. being late for work, or being late getting the children to school, become a real possibility, or do you leap out of bed thinking the sooner you get up the more time you will have to get ready, or that you will have time for that cooked breakfast.

Both of these are based on different motivation strategies that influence everything you do:  Every decision you make is influenced by whether it will cause you pleasure or pain.

Weight Loss – You can’t do it because…

This is a short extract from ‘Weight loss in Mind’ by Janet Thomson:

There are times when it is quite acceptable to use the word because. For example:

Q. why can’t you fly?
A. because I don’t have wings.

However it is used to justify your failure to achieve a certain task. How many times have you heard yourself say “I can’t do that because……..” and then proceed to give excuses/reasons why not, many if not all of which could be overcome if your life depended on it.

Internal chatter contributes to the beliefs we form about what we can or cannot achieve: When it comes to vocabulary, whether internal or external, it’s much more helpful to ask “How can I?” rather than “Why can’t I?” Even better ask yourself “How can I…… and enjoy it!” When you ask your brain a question it will respond with an answer. Often we don’t ask the question because we don’t want to hear the answer, as it might tell us to do something we don’t want to do.

Order the book & CD set ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ or reserve your place on Janet’s forthcoming weight loss boot camp weekend.  Both are available from this website.

Weight Loss – What do you believe?  (part 3)

This is a short extract from ‘Weight loss in Mind’ by Janet Thomson:

Complete the first part of the following statement – be honest:
The because part of the sentence which automatically comes next in your internal chatter is how you justify this limiting belief. These comments are based on past experiences or observations that you have accepted as the only outcome of you trying to achieve your goal. In coaching many people approach this part of the sentence first, and that can work well: However it can be quicker and more beneficial to address the limiting belief head on and not bother with the “because” part. In my experience the word “because” often precedes a torrent of verbal bullshit, either from internal chatter or words someone actually verbalises when telling me why they can’t achieve something.

Order the book & CD set ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ or reserve your place on Janet’s forthcoming weight loss boot camp weekend.  Both are available from this website.

Weight Loss – What do you believe?  (part 1)

This is a short extract from ‘Weight loss in Mind’ by Janet Thomson:

There have been people in history who have had such strong beliefs  that their behaviour and the way they lived their lives changed the way you and I live our lives today for good. Amongst the people we have to thank are:

•    Christopher Columbus for believing the World was round not flat
•    Isaac Newton for believing that light could be transmitted through a bulb
•    Martin Luther King for believing the colour of your skin doesn’t make you less of a person
•    Christian Barnard for believing it was possible to take a heart or other organ out of one body and transplant it successfully into another
•    Emmeline Pankhurst for believing women should have the same rights to vote as men

Without people questioning traditionally held beliefs we might still believe the world was flat, or that man could never travel to the moon, or that it isn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes! We have Roger Bannister to thank for that one: Interestingly as soon as he shattered that belief and proved it could be done, within months other athletes were achieving the same seemingly “impossible” task. Now when elite athletes train for this distance they expect to be sub four minutes. When you consider beliefs in these terms you begin to see how important it is when goal setting, to have a well formed belief system that works on the basis of what you can do.

Order the book & CD set ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ or reserve your place on Janet’s forthcoming weight loss boot camp weekend.  Both are available from this website.

Weight Loss – Are You Unbelievable?

This is a short extract from ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ by Janet Thomson:

Beliefs are “things” you believe, or know beyond doubt to be true. Your belief structure dictates how you think and act and forms the basis for your habitual behaviours. You believe this book is helping you, you are continuing with it because you want to change. That’s a good decision, based on a belief. Many times we make bad decisions based on beliefs.

Beliefs are not always positive: Consider the many people in Waco in America who took their own lives: they didn’t do this on a whim, they did it because they believed in their cause and that it was the right thing to do. Most of us cannot comprehend that strength of belief or conviction, to be so sure of something that you would not only kill yourself but in some cases take the lives of your own children as well. That’s a pretty powerful belief.

Order the book & CD set ‘Weight Loss in Mind’ or reserve your place on Janet’s forthcoming weight loss boot camp weekend.  Both are available from this website.

Janet will be holding 2 NEW 2 day workshops to tackle weight loss and overcoming anxiety, titled ‘Weight loss in Mind – 2 day Bootcamp‘ and ‘Stop Anxiety Now‘ respectively.

Weight Loss Boot Camp

What an amazing weekend!! It have just completed another of my weight loss camps – this time in Coventry – and the response from the people there has been brilliant. I know from previous camps how quickly the weight loss will begin and I was delighted to bring back some people from earlier events to show just how EASY it can be to lose weight and just how effective these ideas are.  Looking to set one up towards the end of January. Will update the site with dates of weight loss boot camps when the date is finalised.