Secrets of Permanent Weight Loss

Congratulations! 

You’ve made the decision that it’s time for you to start feeling good about yourself! You’ve made the decision to let go of excess weight and begin the journey of getting your power back, so that YOU decide what you put in your mouth.

You’ve made the decision to claim your personal power, so that you have power over food, food does NOT have power over you.

You are the only one who can determine what to put in your mouth. Face it. Only you have the power to say, “Yes,” to what is appropriate for to eat and to say, “No,” to what you know is not appropriate to eat.

No one else has the power but YOU!

If food has stolen your power up to this point, it’s time to get it back!

You have made the decision to reclaim your power, or you wouldn’t be reading this. That’s why congratulations are in order. Congratulate yourself for making the decision to get your power back within you, where it belongs. You are worth it!

What is power?

Most people think of power as having power over other people. That’s not power – that’s tyranny!

True power is having power over yourself – having the ability to say, “Yes,” and the ability to say, “No.” Think about it. If you can’t say, yes, you’ve lost your power. If you can’t say, no, you’ve lost your power.

The ability to say yes and the ability to say no really are the essence of FREE WILL! That’s what free will is! If you can’t say yes or no, you can’t choose. If you can’t choose, you can’t exercise your free will!

Your free will is your primary, God-given power to choose. Without choice, you cannot mature as a human being or a spiritual being.

Eating is an instinct. We all need to eat to survive. We all need to eat to keep our bodies alive. Overeating is a result of that instinct becoming out of control, beyond our choice.

One of the reasons we overeat is because we CAN!. We live in a time on our planet where food is abundant. There’s an ice cream store and a donut shop on almost every corner. It’s available and it’s cheap. It’s no wonder that 60% of adult Americans are overweight.

You know the expression, “I can resist anything but temptation!” With temptation on every corner, it’s no wonder you can’t resist!

What this course teaches is how to get your power back, how to get your power back into your own hands, where it belongs.

Remember, whatever you resist, persists.

If I say to you, “Don’t think about a hot-fudge sundae,” what’s the first thing that pops into your mind? A hot-fudge sundae!

Whatever you TRY not to think about automatically looms greater in your mind, because you have inadvertently put it there. Pretty soon that thought gets so huge and so powerful, you feel compelled to indulge. It has taken your power away from you. You feel helpless and overwhelmed. Your free will is gone. You are powerless. That’s a horrible way to live.

A better way to live is to exercise your free will. You empower your free will with your attention. Your attention begins with a thought. Your thoughts begin with the way you speak inwardly to yourself. Become acutely aware of how you speak to yourself with your inner voice. I’d be willing to bet you speak to yourself in a way that you would not speak to anyone else.

Become aware of your negative speaking patterns. It’s imperative that you change your inner, negative self-talk.

Your unconscious mind is like a little child. It has no filter. Your unconscious mind believes everything you tell it, whether it’s true or not. If you say to yourself, “I can’t stop eating mashed potatoes and gravy,” then you will not be able to stop eating mashed potatoes and gravy. You are constantly reinforcing the negative, or what you CAN’T do, by keeping your language in the present tense.

From this moment on, put everything negative or limiting that you are saying to yourself in the PAST TENSE.

Instead of, “I can’t stop eating ————–,” say, “I USED to think that I couldn’t stop eating _________, NOW I choose NOT to eat it.”

This is a small shift in language that will change your entire life! It’s THAT IMPORTANT!

Catch yourself. Even if you don’t believe it at first, that’s OK. Beliefs can be changed, and you change beliefs by changing your language first. Change your language and your beliefs will follow. It works like magic, but you must practice. You must practice and you must be consistent.

Say to yourself, “I USED to have a hard time saying no to _________________ (fill in the black).”

Put it in your own words. Make it meaningful for you.

You are the only one who can change your thoughts. You are the only one who can do this. Unless you are being force-fed, you are the only person on the planet who determines what goes in your mouth.

Do you know how important you are to yourself?

As you begin to change the way you speak to yourself, you begin to change your beliefs. If your beliefs are not in agreement with your goals, you will not be able to achieve them. It’s easier to change your beliefs by simply putting all negativity in the past tense. This is a simple technique, but it will change your life!

Nobody knows what’s going on inside of you, except you. Only you can free yourself from the bonds of your inner, negative thinking.

It may feel like you’re lying to yourself at first, and that’s OK. It’s OK to lie to yourself as long as it’s a positive lie. After all, you’ve been telling yourself lies up until now anyway. You’ve been telling yourself negative lies. You really CAN live without overeating or eating inappropriate foods. The body needs very little in order to survive. We’ve been telling ourselves many lies about food, probably for a long time!

Become aware of that first urge to overeat or to eat inappropriate foods. What is the first THOUGHT that pops into your mind when you have that urge? You may need to sit quietly for a moment in order to become aware of that first thought, but it’s there.

You may become aware of a FEELING before you become aware of a thought. What is the feeling that comes up when the impulse to indulge emerges? What is the emotion telling you in words? This is the thought. Now put that thought into the past tense. Let the thoughts keep coming up and keep putting the in the past tense.

Notice the difference in how your body feels as you do this. The way your body feels is actually affected by the way you speak to yourself. That’s how powerful you are! That’s why this works! As you tap into your thinking and your emotions, you tap into the power of manifesting your dreams!

Most people are not aware of what they are thinking or feeling as any given moment. If I asked you right now, “What are you thinking?” You’d probably say, “I don’t know.”

You can’t choose if you don’t know what your choices are. You can’t change your thinking if you don’t know WHAT you are thinking!

If you can’t choose what food you put in your mouth, then that food has your power. If you are not choosing food, food is choosing you! You are a slave and don’t even know it.

You want your power back or you wouldn’t be reading this. That’s why congratulations are in order. Congratulate yourself! Give yourself a big hug! Give yourself permission to feel good, right now, in this moment, in this instant! Why would you put off feeling good? Why would you put off feeling happy?

Do you know that most people put off feeling happy? Most people put off being happy into the future. Most people reserve being happy for special occasions.

Most people think, “I’ll be happy when I lose 5 pounds,” or, “I’ll be happy when I get that new car, or that new job or that new relationship or _______________fill in the blank.”

Don’t sabotage yourself with “when” thinking. “When” never gets here. All you have is right now, this moment, this instant. Why would you put off feeling good into the future when you have the ability to feel good now!

The beauty is, the more you feel good now, in the present moment, the more power you have to choose!

The better you feel, the better your choices are! Think about it. Chances are you don’t choose wisely when you don’t feel good.

Don’t put off being happy until you achieve your goals. Give yourself permission to be happy now and it will be much easier to achieve those goals

If you let what is outside of you (food, money, belongings, relationships, etc.) determine how you feel on the inside, you will always be a victim. Victims don’t choose. Victims don’t exercise their free will.

If you are not as your ideal weight now, chances are you have become a victim of food. You are not able to choose food, food chooses you.

If you don’t allow yourself to feel good now, regardless of how much you weigh, you will still be a victim of food.

As you allow yourself to be happy NOW, you get your power back, NOW, because you are choosing to be happy. What is the value of waiting to be happy?

The longer you wait to feel good, the more weight you accumulate!

Let yourself be happy NOW. Why would you make any other choice? The power to choose is YOURS.