Are your thoughts, beliefs and actions sabotaging your weight loss? I
see it all the time with my clients. They kick ass with their workouts,
eat healthy, lose weight and then BAM I get a text that they crashed.
Their car magically arrived at In and Out Burger where they consumed 2
double doubles, a large French fry and a gigantic soda. WTF?!? Can you
relate to this? Have you ever been on track doing what you think you are
supposed to do and then you magically end up in the fast food line or
on your couch double fisting ice cream containers and reversing all of
your hard work?
After witnessing such events over and over again, I
knew that there had to be more to the story than lack of will power.
Why would someone work so hard and then throw it away for food? Food
doesn't have some magical power, it doesn't have the ability to talk to
you and taunt you into eating it. (Well... Maybe it does) I decided to
search deeper into the behaviors my clients were exhibiting. I
discovered neuroscience and the power of our thoughts, beliefs and
habits.
Let's delve into a little dictionary/definition session shall we.
A thought is defined as an idea that suddenly occurs into our mind.
A belief is nothing more than a thought that has been thought over and over and over again until we believe it to be true.
A habit is an action that we do repeatedly that reinforces our beliefs.
So
basically, a crazy thought (from an unexplainable place) pops into our
mind, shoves itself into our brains, we take that thought, believe it to
be true and then take action based on it and now we have a new habit.
Sounds legit.
So
what I have gathered is this, people adopt thoughts over a period of
time and believe them to be true. Once they believe these thoughts they
take action to reinforce them. If people adopt certain thoughts that
come from Magic Land such as; working out is hard, eating healthy is too
much work, I was born this way or (my personal favorite)... I always
fail when I try.. then they are going to create actions that reinforce
these thoughts. If I constantly told myself and/or verbalized to others
that I was "fat" or "fluffy" then I am powerfully reinforcing these
thoughts to be true.
This leads me to a little thing called neuro
dissonance, or in other words, a disconnection in the brain. When our
actions conflict with our beliefs, our brains force us to revert back to
what it knows. For example, if we have set our brains GPS system to
"Fluffy-Land" and we start to workout, eat healthy and say nice things
to ourselves our brain thinks we are off course. When we stray off
course towards "Fit-Land" with these new thoughts and actions our
navigation system steps in, makes a lot of noise and sends us back in
the direction of Fluffy-Land. These new actions are not in alignment
with our GPS destination. This is when we find ourselves at the In and
Out drive through. Our GPS is doing what it is supposed to do by telling
us that we need to get back on course.
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