Don’t we all know this story!?"
However…
Did you know… in the first place…
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It's NEVER YOUR FAULT that the diet plans fail… 9/10 of them tell us WHAT to do, not HOW to do it (meaning how to deal with our busy schedules, kids, odd work shifts, no time for ‘clean meals’…)2
It’s NOT YOUR FAULT you can’t stick with these plans. Who has the time to log calories, measure portions EVERY DAY... at every meal?3
And it’s NOT YOUR FAULT you don’t have crazy willpower to just “breathe through the pain”!
In fact, it is proven by multiple studies that food has the same addictive effects as drugs (1)(2)(3)(4).
But we don’t tell drug addicts to “just be strong”, or “try to control yourself”… so why should you be told that!
Listen... and this is the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM...
For one reason or the other, we’re unable to *STICK* with a fat loss plan.
Big deal, so what, right?
Well, it IS a big deal.
It is the biggest deal in your fat loss journey.
Because...
You don’t fail to lose weight (or keep it off) because you’re eating all the wrong foods, or doing some wrong exercises, or that you don’t have some *secret* diet.
You fail because we keep changing the diet, the dietitian, the trainer, the plan, the motivation source… everything but… *yourself*.
And 'changing yourself' simply means...
We change everything... but our daily behavior.
When we don't have the required habits to follow a plan and stick with it... how can the plan help?
It might be the best diet on the planet, but it's useless when you don't have the required habits to stick to it...
What you DO, your ACTIONS, your HABITS, every single day, consciously or unconsciously creates the life (and body) you have today.
Read that again.
That's the root cause of 99% people who fail at losing weight.
On the other hand...
- IF you developed habits to stick to a decent fat loss plan, you think you would not see the results after a few months? Of course you would.
- IF you had the habit of eating the right foods, no matter what, would that not help you?
- What with an exercise habit? If you developed a habit of working out regularly, will it not show you good results?
And this is exactly what happens with 99% people who want to lose weight.
- Fad diet plans DO work... for a while.
- Workouts featuring models/actresses DO motivate... for a while.
- Videos on YouTube DO inspire... for a while.
Many things work... but only for a while.
Something like this...
And this persistent failure was what prompted me to ask myself....
What exactly are the women who lose weight AND keep it off for years, do differently than the rest of us?"
Is there really some secret, some pill or shake that they don't tell us about?
Well no, but they all have ONE thing in common.
And I found it after going through 120+ "Success Story" blogs.
Yes... there IS actually a big secret that the healthiest, happiest people on the planet know that most of us don’t.
And no, it's not some extreme workout or some secret diet.
In fact, I found out about it only after I sought out, got on the phone, interviewed, studied and analyzed dozens of these Indian women and their weight loss stories.
At first, I had the same questions for them as you might have…
- “What were you eating, exactly? How much? How often?”
- “How did you control portions?”
- “What kind of exercises were you doing? How many times a week?
- “How do you deal with cravings, sweets, treats or negative friends?”
Strangely enough, their replies almost never included any of these!
I was puzzled.
If they didn’t solely attribute the diet/exercise plan to their awesome results… what were they doing? What was their secret?
As I got through interview #10, I began noticing some interesting trends.
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I discovered that they all engaged in the same few habits.2
Some of them had a few unique habits.3
None of them did things you’d think they would, like calorie counting.
But I noticed one big, key factor surrounding ALL of their success stories.
By the way - THIS IS ALSO THE FIRST BEHAVIOR CHANGE FOR YOU...
And that one factor (the only factor they all had in common), was that they understood that sustainable fat loss came down to one thing, and one thing only.
#1 They ALL UNDERSTOOD The Power Of Tiny, Daily Habits
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It's never about what diet plan you have, it's about YOU, what you DO every day.2
Tiny, unconscious habits & routines that build up over month, years, even decades.3
What you see in the mirror is the direct result of months, years of conscious and unconscious habits.4
You are NOT what you do ‘some time’. You are the sum of what you’ve done every day for the last few years.5
What matters more than the end GOAL is what you DO every single day... the process.
The last point there, is EXTREMELY important.
The Classic "SMART" Goal Setting Method Doesn't Work For Most Of Us Because...
When we decide on a "smart" goal – “lose 10kg in 3 months”...
Yeah, it sure is SMART - specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.
However... though it looks great in theory, when it comes down to putting it in action, every single day...
... we keep comparing our current position to that end goal.
10kg? Ohhh, it’s been 4 weeks, and I’ve just lost 2kg so far… I am just at 15% of my goal right now. How the he** would this work... I need something faster...”
We keep focusing on the end goal from our current position
No goal setting expert tells you that your fat loss success is NOT about the goal… those “10kg lost”…
It’s ALL about the 99% time spent on the process, the daily grind, most of which doesn't even show any significant results.
Meaning, here’s how losing weight (permanently) looks like in the real world…
That's how it's done. Steady progress with small habits.
The progress is so slow you won't even notice it every day.
And boy, haven’t we all experienced that orange line!
Secondly, an additional benefit of developing and mastering those daily habits is...
Mastering habit building automatically helps you stick to any good plan!"
Here’s how…
For a fitness freak like me, going to the gym is no longer a problem because it’s become a habit, it’s become so natural now that… NOT going feels weird!
So the first step for you is this - trying to form small daily HABITS that will give you long term results.
Just a few key Habits x Time = Long Term Results
If there ever was one, that's the weight loss secret!
It's time to hear YOUR opinion now...
Do you think this behavior change, focusing on your daily habits rather than the end goal will help you?
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