Chasing Freedom Weight Loss Program
My friends, the truth about
weight loss is that it is a mental game. The one trait in common with
all people who have lost significant weight and kept it off is a change
of mindset. They found a way to change how they thought about dieting,
eating and exercise. They accepted the reality of healthy weight loss
and learned to deal with the frustrations and mental battle that accompany
it.
Without first learning how to combat your
mental demons, most people will remain in the vicious cycle of battling
their weight for their entire lives. The problem is, most people don’t
know how to initiate mental change.
Chasing Freedom
is a road map to long-term, healthy weight loss. It is a
practical guide focused on strategies to make healthy weight loss more
manageable. It is a mental framework, alongside a basic food plan that
follows the Food Guide Pyramid and an exercise plan whose goal is for
you to discover lifestyle exercise sports that you don’t think of as
exercise. Chasing Freedom has six main aspects:
1. Mental Preparation
- Losing weight and becoming vibrant and healthy
will have a bigger impact on your life than anything else. And I
mean anything! It determines your mental, physical, and emotional
state, every moment of every day. You must place that kind of importance
on your diet.
- Most people go on a diet with the attitude, I’ll
give this a try. I hope it works better than the last diet I tried.
Wrong! You must have the positive attitude and mindset, that you
will succeed.
- Chasing Freedom
is a lifestyle change that you do not just try. It gives you the
long-term mindset where the only outcome is success.
- A diet or lifestyle change must never begin tomorrow
or next Monday Morning. You need time to consider your
past weight loss frustrations and the way you live and eat. You
must learn to focus on these memories in order to channel your mental
strength.
2. The cornerstone of a successful diet
must be on finding your motivation.
- We all have emotional baggage and frustrations
regarding our weight. For most people this baggage is a personal
liability from which all their weakness derives. Chasing Freedom
teaches you how to focus these negative thoughts into a powerful
reservoir of inner strength.
- Once you develop mental strength from inside yourself,
you will be able to combat the mental demons that have plagued your
attempts to lose weight and change your life before.
- Motivation comes from learning how to use simple,
practical techniques, such as listening to music that elicits the
memories that you’ve learned to use as your inspiration.
- Motivation comes from knowing you have placed all
your confidence in yourself.
3. The food aspect of healthy, long-term
weight loss should be basic and based on common sense. Most diets focus
on immediate, short-term water loss, which never lasts. Your food plan
must be sustainable for the long-term if you are to keep the weight
off.
- Follow the Food Guide Pyramid, recommended by virtually
all doctors and nutritionists. In order to lose weight, you consume
the low end serving count.
- Chasing Freedom
has strategies to tailor the recommendations of the FGP to maximize
your mental strength. The strategies relate to purchasing, storage,
preparation and consumption of your food.
- Rewards must be a central component of your food
program. Weekly celebration cheat meals must be consumed
in order to relieve your weight loss stress and give you something
to look forward to.
- Balanced nutrition, once learned, can easily make
the transition from caloric intake for weight loss to caloric intake
to maintain your new equilibrium weight.
4. The one variable in common with all
successful, long-term diets is exercise.
- Too many diets downplay the importance of exercise
or attempt to convince you something mundane or arduous can be easy
or fun.
- Chasing Freedom
recognizes the difficulty of undertaking an exercise program when
you are out of the shape.
- It recognizes a concept called the demons
of rationalization. These are the ever-present thoughts
in your mind that seem to always cause you to quit exercising before
you had planned. Chasing Freedom describes how the
demons of rationalization effect each type of workout, from health
club workouts, to home exercise machines, to road workouts such
as walking and running, to lifestyle exercise sports such as tennis,
climbing, or bicycling. By understanding the effects of the demons
you can manage your workouts to minimize them.
- The ultimate goal of Chasing Freedom
is to take you from the health club, to the road, to lifestyle exercise
sports that you don’t think of as exercise.
- Anything is possible when you begin to get fit
having fun.
5. The most important component of Chasing
Freedom is acquiring the mindset that weight loss success is
not in losing the weight, but keeping it off forever.
- Once you lose weight the Chasing Freedom
way, you will have gained the strength and knowledge that will give
you complete control of your weight for the rest of your life.
Anything is possible!
*Always consult your doctor
or physician before starting any weight loss program.
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