#38: Fat Loss Success!

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Sovereign Michael Valentine

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Special Report #38

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

series

Fat Loss Success!


(Stages of Change)

Leading up to you giving yourself the opportunity to "make the internal decision to get lean and healthy once and for all" requires that your decision be "from within" and "congruent" (without exception).

In other words, you have to have made the complete and thorough decision [on your own] and [for yourself] in order to make your attainment likely. You have to give up / sacrifice what you have been getting by consuming SADCRAP, inadequate nutritional supplements and either too little or incorrect exercise and inadequate guidance / training in order to reach your goals. 

You'll hear me talking about and see me writing about the five "stages" of behavioral change because those of us who have helped people change behaviors for decades  (after learning to do it ourselves) recognize the subtle cues as to whether someone is "on track" from the beginning or sabotaging themselves from the get-go.

In other words, people often [don't know what they don't know] (including myself) and that includes thinking we are doing what success takes in reference to our intended timeline, but in reality may have skipped steps in our internal work / dialogue which is necessary and yet may sabotage any success we do experience in the short-term. 

What this means in real time is that if you haven't done the prerequisite internal changes / made the internal sacrifices (deciding to trade unhealthy behaviors for healthy behaviors), you'll likely lack motivation, procrastinate, skip workouts, skip meals, lack energy, skip dietary supplements and feel like you're "missing out" on the emotional payoff of the unhealthy behaviors, etc. (Because the unhealthy behaviors will most assuredly compete with the establishment of the new healthy behaviors). 

This process of "unfinished business" is easy to recognize and predictable. "I just want to get going"  is the common mantra of people who want to skip the initial steps thinking "getting going" will be in their favor but ultimately prevents long-term success beyond three months (procrastination followed by impulsivity of skipping necessary steps only to fail because fundamental steps were skipped in exchange for a rash beginning).

The reason is the things we aren't necessarily conscious of like:

1) Unconscious beliefs (lacking belief or faith in self or your ability to achieve your goals), (or believing you know better than your trainer about food, supplements or exercise),

 

2) Unconscious values (value of short term satisfaction of SADCRAP or sitting on the sofa),

3) Refusal to override old habits or refusal to exercise impulse control (to establish productive habits) and

4) Self esteem; the vast majority of people who need to burn fat (body composition higher than 20%) have:

  

a) low self esteem,

b) underdeveloped self image,  

c) aren't aware they have low self esteem and

     

d) skip the behaviors which could improve their self esteem which, would subsequently fuel their fat loss efforts via improved inspiration and motivation.

In other words, low self esteem is a lower level, lack-of-functioning of the mind, so much so that when people are "in it"(experiencing it), it's difficult to do the behaviors / activities that would give them relief (Catch-22) / paradox.

For me personally, what helps me when I'm making behavioral changes to reach a new level or new goal is to vicariously achieve objective~perspective on what it is I'm trying to accomplish. (In other words, its difficult to achieve objectivity of a situation we're personally experiencing, yet we can look at our situation from the outside-in.) 

What that means is when I can see my situation from the outside, from others' view and compare it to what tends to help the average individual with similar goals I have at least a set of behaviors that I know have worked for (some) people in order to at least start the process. 

I strive to pass this viewpoint on to my clients in that I think have an outside perspective, knowing everyone is essentially experiencing the same things regardless of the context (regardless of the content of their goals) gives you the advantage over only having the internal experience of being "stuck".

(As professionals we know that the actual fundamentals of exercise and nutrition are unchangeable, consistent and underlying laws of nature...[they apply to everyone]...the variables with each person are simply the:

1) Psychological,

2) Emotional and

3) Habitual ways each individual tries to keep doing what got them fat and unhealthy, but get the results that lean healthy people have earned!.. There's no secrets to fat loss: the truth is all out there and available to everyone. Successful fat loss is simply doing the lean lifestyle on average more than the fat lifestyle without trying to argue, emote, or negotiate your way out of it...simply do it!) 

So, since the "stages of change" are so well recognized and acknowledged I'll simply refer you to the first hit I got when I Googled "stages of behavioral change". I looked this article over and it covers the principles right from the get go. 

You can read it yourself, reflect on it and integrate the information for your own benefit so you can reflect on what you are telling yourself vs the reality of the situation ... In other words, just because we 'think it' doesn't make it real! 

http://psychcentral.com/lib/stages-of-change/000265

"Do it now, do it consistently!"

I see you succeeding.