How you can lose 40 pounds without really trying

by Ken Winston Caine

You already know how to lose 40 pounds. (But not in three weeks!) And how to keep it off.

We all do.

The missing ingredient, when we are overweight, is finding and maintaining the life-loving mindset and self-esteem that allows that to happen without any seeming effort. Without struggle.

You MUST do this without struggle if you are to succeed.

And you know how to do that, too, because you’ve done it before. (If not with weight, then with some other challenge that you’ve completely conquered to the point that you can’t even imagine how you could have ever been a “victim” of it. Where your enthusiasm and excitement and belief in a completely different set of behaviors and beliefs completely supplanted the old, self-destructive ones.)

How did you do it then?

First examine values, thinking, behaviors that are limiting you, weighing you down, and discover a time when those were not there, were not important, were not in control

What put you in that place where the thinking and behaviors that cause you to add weight and hold onto weight were no longer high values in your life and were no longer perceived as acceptable and no longer ran on automatic pilot? No longer seemed to control you?

What values, thinking and behaviors replaced them, overrode them automatically? And how did you get into a mindset (and lifeset? if I may invent a word) where that was happening?

What would it take for you to do that again? Or do that even better?

Allow yourself to evoke the Spirit of Wellness and allow yourself at least three weeks just for exploration and discovery

To lose weight without effort, you must evoke the Spirit of Wellness. (See secrets for evoking the Spirit of Wellness.)

Play with that for at least three weeks until you have some answers and direction and find yourself building enthusiam for the new direction.

Then the weight will come down. A bit at a time.

Hide the scales. Practice daily gazing instead of daily weighing

Forget daily weighing. Because that is a “victim” behavior. Instead, devote a few minutes to daily gazing. Dressed and undressed, observe yourself from head to toe in a full-length mirror.

Watch yourself feel and jiggle the less-desired flabby areas. Carefully observe the tightness and / or looseness of your clothes. (And watch them become looser. And celebrate that.)

The weight will come down slowly. It went on slowly.

But rewarding results are immediate.

Putting yourself in a state of mind and living where unhealthy compulsive behaviors no longer hold sway means putting yourself into a state of mind and being where constructive, healthy self-respect and self-love and self-belief and confidence rise from the very center of your being.

And, that, of course, feels great. At any time. At any weight. Allowthat to happen and the rest is easy.

Watch for evidence of that in the mirror each day, too.

Notice in what ways this new strength and self-belief asserts and exhibits (or is failing to exhibit) itself. And ask what you can do to project it more strongly, naturally, consistently in various situations and, again, with little conscious effort beyond simply stating (or setting the intention…

Just changing posture, changing expression, changing mood can produce changes in mindset.

What are your posture and expressions communicating — to you, to your neurology, to others? And is that message in synch with your higher intentions?

Coming up in Part 2: Why you should never diet, never deprive yourself, never resist somethng you really desire.