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How Mind Over Matter Can Help You to Lose Weight

     Losing weight is just like quitting smoking - no one can make you do it - you have to want to do it on your own. If you want to quit smoking, you can put the pack down and walk away without looking back. The same also applies for weight loss.

Your mind is extremely powerful and really does hold the key to your success at losing weight but you have to want it. You will not lose weight because your doctor told you to or because someone else told you to lose weight - it is all up to you.

One of the reasons why weekly diet meetings are so popular is because they force you to take responsibility for your weight. By going to the meetings and being weighed in, you feel a sense of obligation to lose the weight. The good thing though is that can give yourself this same sense of obligation and save money by putting mind over matter.

In a way you have to want to lose weight so badly that it far exceeds any desire to eat those foods which you know are bad for you. You need a state of mind in which you want to lose weight more than you want to eat fatty foods. If have to have a positive mindset that you can accomplish your weight goals.

You should also aim to keep your motivation positive instead of negative. So think about what you want to achieve and the difference that this will make in your life. If you create this positive attitude then you will find it easy to the make the right decisions when it comes to food.

Don't be one of those people that avoids exercise, embrace it and have a positive attitude about it. Any distance is walkable if you have the time, so consider walking to places that you would normally drive to (such as work or to the shops if they're not too far away). Granted it may take longer, but the long term health benefits of doing this will last for a lifetime. Also consider setting yourself some exercise goals, starting small and then increasing this over time.

Get started right away! Don't tell yourself that you'll start tomorrow because if you do your telling your mind that this is not important for you.

You can do it!

But whatever you decide to do right now, just know that you do have the potential to reach your ideal weight. That new slimmer you is within you, all you have to do is take that first step and go get it...

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