(Click the image for the Vlog version)
The Law of Attraction.
If it’s understood, it’ll bring you the results, and outcomes of your desires.
If unrecognized and/or misunderstood, it’ll give you the very thing you don’t want, even though you don’t want it.
Regardless, you attracted it through your thoughts.
Let’s translate this into a simple health, fitness, and wellbeing context.
Let’s look at the notion of…
Weight loss
So many people want weight loss, wish it, hope it, long after it, but never achieve the physiological change they ‘hope’ and ‘wish’ for.
The clue is in the words and the psychological meaning behind the perception.
‘Hope’, is something from luck, ‘wish’, again, luck.
Putting the odds of success on the back of luck is as accurate as bent ruler.
Those words don’t reinforce meaningful, goals, learning, strategy, overcoming setbacks, and growth.
Let’s now take the concept of weight loss into account.
Eat less, move more right?
Meh…somewhat.
Eat less than what? Move more than what?
There are many things to take into account when measuring genuine health, fitness, and wellbeing progress.
Any chimp can lose weight by eating less bananas.
What components make our body weight?
- Muscle
- Bone
- Organs
- Water
- Body fat
What one of the above do you want to shift?
Muscle? Not unless you want to become weaker with a slower metabolism.
Bones? Cut your arm off and see if that weight is good weight.
Organs? Well, they are us..sooooo not recommended.
Water? The only water you’ll want to lose is water retention, the whole human body is mainly made of water, so without that? See ya.
Body fat? Bean pot. That’s the one, we are not bears that hibernate for the winter. We are human beings, human beings that get ll, chronically ill, lethargic, and more exposed to premature death by storing excess body fat.
Just ‘eating less’ won’t cut the mustard, both for quality and quantity.
Healthy weight loss requires the need for nourishment, effective exercise, decent sleep, effective hydration, as well as stress reduction techniques, goals, psychological management, planning, patience, and a focus on many many many other metrics besides just weight.
Weight alone is far too subjective to tell the true story.
Let’s say an individual is adotoping a ‘diet’ and measuring their weight as the main feedback metric, what does the weight represent? is it healthy? Is it in their best ihealth nterest?
What if it doesn’t work? (it won’t, you can’t outdo the universal laws and principles)
Back to: (focusing on lack and pain instead of abundance and gain)
“Notihng works”.
“I’ve tried everything”.
“I wish I could just keep it off”.
“I hope I can keep it up in the new year”.
Words of limitation right there.
How does something that you don’t want happen?
Right now, don’t think of a giant pink elephant.
Did that image enter your mind even though I said not to?
Of course, it did, it had your attention.
Stop thinking of the GIANT PINK ELEPHANT.
This is where people go wrong with healthy, sustainable weight loss.
They focus on the weight they haven’t lost, they focus on how that isn’t attainable, adopt a crappy strategy, expect big results, and then get pissed off and/or stubborn in the defence of their decision to follow the diet because it had an initial weight loss.
Remember my chimp example?
Here’s some steps to help:
- Stop focusing on the weight you haven’t lost.
- Switch from weight loss to body recomposition, aim to lose the fat.
- Focus on the systems that optimize your health and give you energy before aesthetics, aesthetics will follow.
- Your daily actions towards those systems are your best data-rich stream for success. ( don’t expect decent physical results without honoring the principles).
- Ditch ‘hope’, ‘try’, and, ‘someday’, Tis the language of losers.
Get holistic, get a decent strategy, and most of all, get that mind right.
Learn what has to be learned, measure the things that really matter, and live a healthier, fitter life.
– Coach Paul
