This Is An Excerpt From My New Book ‘Habits For Weight Loss.’ ¹https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Weight-Loss-Powerful-Permanently-ebook/dp/B01N19SBZP/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1486840555&sr=8-2&keywords=habits+for+weight+loss&linkCode=sl1&tag=wwwfabulousbo-20&linkId=b03a3b4ca3eac24fb73eeb8d7c26b563

Dieting doesn’t work. According to the New York Times, 95% of people who lose weight on a diet gain it back, and a significant percentage of people gain back more than they had originally lost, just like in less than a year or two; almost everyone who wins the lottery is worse off than before they won it! ²https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/why-you-cant-lose-weight-on-a-diet.html?_r=0

Moreover, ninety-two percent of people give up their New Year Resolutions of losing weight and becoming healthier! ³https://www.statisticbrain.com/new-years-resolution-statistics/

These statistics are dismal. The obesity rate is at an all-time high, but at the same time, the weight loss industry racked up sixty billion dollars worldwide. ⁴https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2013/01/02/the-heavy-price-of-losing-weight

How is that even possible?

Two Simple Reasons

We are an impatient lot. We treat fitness/losing weight as an event rather than a lifestyle. We join a gym and/or start a fitness regime with unrealistic expectations, to lose 10kg (22lbs) for a wedding that is less than a month away, to fit in our favorite jeans in just a fortnight, or to address our health concern in just a few sessions at the gym.

Although motivated initially, we gradually lose interest as the results are not to our expectations.

The other reason is that motivation and willpower are limited. It comes and goes. Most people rely on motivation and willpower to do the job for them. However, research has shown that we, as humans, don’t have enough of it.

Given these limitations, is there any way out?

Yes, There Is. And It Starts By Installing Good Habits.

If you want to lose weight and keep it off permanently, then you need to dissolve [not break] your bad habits and build good ones.

According to authors Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson in their book ‘You Can Create An Exceptional Life’:

“When you break something, the pieces are still around. However, when we dissolve something, the whole experience disappears. So basically, habits come from nowhere and go back to nowhere.”

So how can we dissolve a habit and build new ones?

Step 1) Becoming More ‘Self-Aware’ 

There is a reason we humans have evolved for millions of years and made it to the top of the food chain. Why? It’s because we have a unique power that millions of other species living on this beautiful planet earth don’t, and that is ‘Self Awareness.’

Every moment we have a choice to give power to our ‘bad’ habits or to make a choice to build a good one. It is you who created those bad habits, and it’s you who is in charge of changing them. There will be times when you will be thrown back by your old habits.

Do not despair. Get up and start again. By becoming more self-aware, you will be mindful of the negative thoughts that are giving power to your bad habits.

Once you start noticing that these negative thoughts exist in your consciousness, only then will you realize that you have the power to let those thoughts go and not get attached to them.

Step 2) Start Installing New Thoughts

And once you let go of the old thoughts and start thinking good positive thoughts, you will start building new habits.