[S1062]Strength Training Fat Loss

Part 3 continued…

Suddenly, a selection of paints on a pallet along with a brush, magically appear before you! You feel the need to move away from those negative feelings and instead behave in such a way so you’ll feel satisfied and content. You envision a behavior that you’ve resorted to in the past, which helped you to run away from those negative feelings and feel good again. All you have to work with is some paint and a brush so you decide to paint a picture of the behavior on the blank canvass.

Question 3: Paint a picture of a behavior on the blank canvass that you normally resort to as a result of feeling negatively towards the belief that you're overweight. Negative feelings most often lead to inactivity, overeating, excessive consumption of junk food, smoking, alcohol abuse, hiding or running away from the problem.

First, paint the picture in your mind and then describe what you see below in your own words. Afterwards, draw a picture on a blank piece of paper to see the image come to life! Now ask yourself the following questions before you visualize the painting. How large is the canvass? What colors of paint are you using? Are your paint strokes slow or fast, soft or abrupt? How are you behaving and do you appear happy or sad? Are you moving or still? Is there anyone else or an object in the painting as well? Where are you located inside the painting?

Example of an unproductive behavior: Since I feel depressed about believing that I’m overweight, I usually wear my baggy sweater to cover everything up.

Example of how I’d paint a picture of that behavior: Since I automatically choose to feel this way on a regular basis due to this unhealthy belief, I’d definitely use a large canvass so the painting feels close to me. The colors that I use to paint myself and the background will be dark yet I’ll paint my sweater a bright yellow since that is the one I put on to feel better. My paint strokes will be quite slow since I’m low on energy. I’ll wear my favorite sweater as I’m lying down on the couch in my living room watching television. I’ll be alone with a comfortable look on my face while feeling sorry for myself.

The unproductive behavior:

The painting (draw your picture on a separate piece of paper):

Question 4: How will you be affected in the future if you continue on behaving in that unproductive manner. Be descriptive when explaining how you’re going to feel and the way you’re going to look. Also, think of how your inner health will be affected as well.

Example of a consequence from an unproductive behavior: If I continue to feel depressed as a result of believing that I’m overweight while also covering myself up with a sweater to hide away from the problem... I'll gain more weight, feel really bad and will shorten my life span further since I’m thinking negatively and not doing anything to lose the weight.

The consequence of the unproductive behavior:

Fantastic!

Since you’ve made it this far I'm sure you now realize some of the reasons why you behave the way you do. Being aware of what you need to change about yourself is the first step towards breaking down unhealthy beliefs then building up healthier ones in exchange.

I realize that you can’t snap your fingers and change the belief that your overweight in an instant. Remember, it’s your fat loss results that will change the belief about your body after you start using ‘No FAT Lies: The Absolute TRUTH on How to Lose Stubborn Fat for Life’!

Moving along, it’s now important to change the way you react to your unhealthy belief in a positive way. When you learn how to generate positive feelings concerning anything you see, hear or feel inside that would normally cause you to feel negative, you’ll then automatically develop the habit of behaving in a more productive manner on a regular basis.

Of course you’ll need to learn exactly what the most productive behaviors are that you can use. I’ll teach this to you shortly...

Question 5: Below, you'll see the same list of negative feelings that were introduced to you before in this assignment. Once again; circle or type out the negative feelings that you associate with the unhealthy belief about your body (I'm overweight). When you select the negative feelings make sure you can still see the painting of the unproductive behavior that was created in your mind. After you're finished... I would like you to circle or type out the opposing positive feelings directly below, as these feelings are going to allow you to act proactively!

Example of feelings associated to the unhealthy belief: I'm overweight.

Negative Feelings

Hatred

Anger

Sadness

Depression

Pity

Ashamed

Weak

Worthless

Fearful

Ugly

Lonely

Positive Feelings

Love

Calm

Happiness

Uplifted

Confident

Proud

Strong

Deserving

Courageous

Attractive

Fulfilled

Believe it or not you’re now going to learn how to exchange the negative feelings to the positive ones instead! Can this be so easy, you ask? Especially since you've programmed yourself to react in such a negative way for quite some time now.

You bet it is!

All you have to do is make a concentrated effort on a consistent basis to identify similar situations to the ones before that caused you to react negatively. Instead, you’ll view it in an empowering way, which will positively change your feelings towards it.

Question 6: Go back to all of the reasons you identified earlier, which support the unhealthy belief (I'm overweight) about your body. As you read each one visualize again what you see, hear and feel inside your mind. Decide how you’re going to alter the message so you can generate those new, positive feelings that are needed in order for you to behave productively.

Once you’ve accomplished this, write down what you said to yourself before and what you’ll say to yourself now so you can flip the once negative situation to a positive one inside your mind!

Example of reasons why the unhealthy belief exists: I'm overweight.

Reason 1 (I saw): My reflection in the mirror.
What I would say to myself: I can’t accept the way I look and there’s nothing that can be done since I was made to be this way.

What I say to myself now: I accept the way I look and have the ability to lose this extra weight in 12-weeks or less!

Reason 2 (I heard): The comments people make about me.

What I would say to myself: Even they can see how fat I am, so how can I ever expect to gain their respect?

What I say to myself now: After I lose some body fat and become shapelier those very same people will be commenting on how great I look and will come to me for advice on how to lose fat!

Reason 3 (I felt): The way my stomach and legs feel when I touch them.

What I would say to myself: I feel smooth, heavy and sluggish and I’m only going to gain more weight in the near future.

What I say to myself now: If I had never been soft and heavy then I wouldn’t be able to fully appreciate the feeling of being toned and tight!

Your unhealthy belief: I'm overweight.

Reason 1 (I saw):

What I would say to myself:

What I say to myself now:

Reason 2 (I heard):

What I would say to myself:

What I say to myself now:

Reason 3 (I felt):

What I would say to myself:

What I say to myself now:

Question 7: Using your new-found positive feelings that are associated with the unhealthy belief about your body, I’d like you to re-word the name of the painting in a positive way.

Example of an altered unhealthy belief: I'm overweight at this time yet not for long!

Your altered unhealthy belief:

Question 8: How do you feel when you repeat your new, altered unhealthy belief about your body?

Example of a feeling from an altered unhealthy belief: I’m excited and feel a renewed sense of motivation to lose fat!

How do you feel now:

Now that you’ve changed the name of the painting in a positive way, you come to the conclusion that the unproductive behavior that's displayed on the canvass just doesn’t match up. Suddenly, a can of water appears in front of you. You feel the need to create a new painting that displays a productive behavior instead, which relates with it's new name. You then toss the water upon the canvass and as it hits you yell out, “SPLASH!". The paint flows off and trickles away. The canvass has now come clean!

Within the next article of the ‘No FAT Lies secret psychology for fat loss success’ series, you’ll learn new, productive behaviors and will be encouraged to paint a new painting on the empty canvass instead.

Question 9: Do you believe that you’re going to step inside a new, fit and attractive body in 12-weeks or less?
Yes or No (circle or type out your answer)

If you answered "Yes" then carry on with this series of articles. If you answered "No", then I must remind you that a transformation really can happen in an instant but only you are in control of that! I encourage you to go back through this assignment and take more time with it in order to get better results and then go forwards from here when you believe you’re going to get the results that you're dreaming about.

As you work towards transforming your body, through repetition of thought, speech and action... your unhealthy beliefs will completely break down and then new, healthy alternatives will take their place.

Now, let’s review what you’ve accomplished so far...

Firstly, you made the decision to change the way you look and feel in a positive way.

Secondly, you set attainable fitness goals to help set a target for what you’ll achieve within the following 12-weeks.

Thirdly, in order to ensure your long-term success, you identified the unhealthy beliefs you associated to exercise and nutrition. From there you started to break them down by learning why those beliefs were stopping you from attaining the results you wanted to see and feel. Also, understanding what you should believe as an alternative. Afterwards, if necessary, you learned how to view your body in a more positive and healthy light, thus ensuring that you’ll behave more productively on a consistent basis.

Just by accomplishing the above you should be very proud of yourself and realize that you're now 1 step closer to losing all of your stubborn fat for life!

Coming up in the 4th part of this article series, you’ll learn the most important decisions that must become your own so you'll behave productively. Cut away any possibility of returning to where you once were before by…

Creating Your New And Empowering Decisions