EP 1: Why weight loss is all in your head

2020-04-16

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Many of us struggle with obesity and weight loss. Most people have developed a mindset that sabotages their weight loss efforts. With over 60,000 thoughts that pass through our minds on a daily basis, 80% of those are negative. This is because our brains are hardwired to think more negatively than positively. Your thoughts drive your emotions and your emotions drive your behavior. Your mind dictates your eating choices and your urge to overeat especially when you’re hungry. With this show, I hope to help you get y...

Your thoughts drive your emotions and your emotions drive your behavior. Your mind dictates your eating choices and your urge to overeat especially when you’re hungry. With this show, I hope to help you get your mind right so that your body will follow.

I share this with you in the hopes that it will give you the motivation to overcome whatever obstacles are coming in your way to releasing the weight and using the power of your mind to create the body you’ve always wanted.

[02:24] When you attack yourself with negative self-talk, it puts your body in a stress response which increases your cortisol and leads to weight gain. You have the power to heal your relationship with food so that you can help yourself to lose weight.
[03:20] On this show you’ll learn how to get your mind right so your body will follow, how to live a healthy lifestyle.
[03:51] What do you believe about yourself and your ability to lose weight? We all have beliefs about ourselves whether we know it or not. We are making choices every day based on those beliefs. During this show, I want to help you get to the core of your beliefs to get lasting weight loss because until you do, you won’t get the weight loss you’re longing for.
[04:30] “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” A belief is a thought you judge to be true. Beliefs are the mental architecture of how you move through the world.
[05:10] 3 main ways your beliefs propel you forward or hold you back: 1) your beliefs dictate your behaviour and your behaviour dictates your health. 2) your beliefs affect the chemicals in your brain and how your body functions. 3) Your beliefs are changeable. You have the power to change them.
[08:24] You have the power to control your thoughts. Positive and hopeful beliefs are healing. Negative and illness-focused beliefs trigger your brain to its fight and flight stress response which dumps cortisol into your bloodstream and causes a cascade of events that make your body more predisposed to illness and weight gain. You have the power to think yourself thin.
[09:31] What you believe is nothing more than an agreement that you’ve made with yourself about your reality. So to change it, all you have to do is change that agreement.
[10:27] On the Mind Your Body Show, the strategies I’ll be sharing with you are mostly based on the principles of cognitive therapy, the most effective form of therapy in the world. It is based on the concept that the way people think affects how they feel and do.
[12:37] I share this with you in the hopes that it will give you the motivation to overcome whatever obstacles are coming in our way to releasing the weight and using the power of your mind to create the body you’ve always wanted.

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