PostsIf you are carrying around a few (I use that term loosely) further pounds like most of us are, you all know all the reasons why we should take the weight off. It will reduce stress on our heart, reducing the chance of heart disease, cancer, possibility of diabetes; feel better, look more gorgeous, etc.
There are 101 reasons why, but it can be the real pain to finally get that weight off. You push really hard, make a little progress, get side tracked, and bam you are heavier then you started.
It’s maddening. Enough with that hassle, I have put together 5 plain steps to actually losing weight and keeping it off. These steps can be applied to anything, but we are focusing on weight loss here.
1. Comprehend What You Want
2. Comprehend Where You Are
3. Track Your Results
4. Make Course Corrections
5. Being held Accountable
Now all your extra weight will effortlessly melt off. Yeah right! The plain list of 5 items is not going to do it, so let me describe the intricacies of the 5 items and where the hang up normally occurs when applied to losing weight.
1. Comprehend What You Want
This one is dead plain. A good number of folks that want to lose weight have an idea of how many pounds they would like to lose or how they would like their body to look.
I think we can safely say if your body started looking the method you wanted it, you would know, even if you didn’t have it wholly mapped out and detailed.
2. Comprehend Where You Are
This is the big trip up. It is practically always overlooked and is the number one reason for the up and down Yo Yo effect we experience with losing weight. We are unhappy with how our body feels and how it looks and it is painful to zoom in and get an accurate picture of where we are. Unluckily, we have to know where we are, to be able to accurately judge the results we are getting.
You are on a trip to San Diego, California. You would like to start your trip from Phoenix, Arizona, but you really don’t know where you are. No problem. You get an Arizona/California map and find that a simple 6 hours trip west on interstate 8 will get you to San Diego.
6 hours later, you have no clue where you are and it is certainly not warm San Diego. You feel defeated and you want to give up! Do you blame the automobile? The stupid maps? San Diego? Yourself?
Now what if I told you, you were actually in New Your City, not Phoenix, Arizona. A 6 hour car ride west from New York City will never get you to San Diego.
If you took the time to exactly discover where you were, you would have been able to choose the appropriate means to get to San Diego and have an expectation as to how long it would take.
This is the same with weight loss and our personal physical condition. In our minds, we consider we are starting in a different physical condition then we truly are. When the results don’t follow the illusion in your mind, we get upset.
3. Track Your Results
This is theoretically simple. If we have no clue as to WHAT we are doing, how do we know what is working? It might be a plain to do, but is besides simple not to do. In the end, the largest part of folks never track their results.
4. Make Course Corrections
We like to do this one. We have it hands down. It is like step 1 of knowing what you want. We try the new food diet, the super sit up machine, and the cardio hip hop power energy yoga fat burner class.
We might be great at switching it up, but without knowing where we are starting from and a history of tracked results, we have no clue as to what we should modify or even which direction we should go.
5. Being held Accountable
No, not accountability! That is an evil word. I don’t want someone to comprehend what I am doing, or more significantly what I am not doing.
So, why do we resist accountability, your secret weapon to weight loss? As it works! If you know someone is going to be watching, you would follow through or at least feel extremely uncomfortable not following through.
Accountability when used wisely is the ultimate turbo booster to your weight loss. Because you are going to be accountable anyway, you might as well get something out of it.
Using accountability up front, you can achieve the body of your dreams. If you let your body hold you accountable, it will throw on fat in places you don’t want it to be.
The main obstacle to weight loss is not taking any action. It doesn’t matter how good the plan is, it is worthless if you don’t follow it. So what do I do now?
First and foremost get Accountable.
Forward this article to someone you respect and care about and tell them I want to be accountable to finally taking off my extra pounds. When they agree to support you, start working through Steps 1 – 5.
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