Hunger Scale

The hunger scale can help you learn to listen to your body and its messages. The body know what it needs to be healthy we just need to listen and not be distracted. The hunger scale is a great way to start listening to your body.

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Don't Wait, Be Proud

Each journey starts with a single step so be proud of each step you take toward your weight loss goal.

"Don't wait until you reach your goal to be proud of yourself.
Be proud of each step you take toward reaching that goal."

So today let make a little step in the right direction and keep take lots of little steps until we reach our goals. Put all your focus on your daily small step and do it to the best of your ability and do this every day and all of a sudden you will be at your weight loss goal.

The best example of this is from tennis, each player are told to focus 100% on winning each point. Do this and each game, set and match will take care of themselves. It is so true, the good player don't get distracted by the bigger picture they just concentrate on what they can do here and now and let every thing else take care of it's self from this point of power.

One thing you could do from your point of power is get our 3 FREE ebooks and our eNewsletters

Take care
Mindful Mark

Your Body Affirmation

This image is such a great affirmation to use, I just really wanted to share it with you today:

"My Body is like canvas
Motivation is my brush
I control every curve
and make no excuses
I turn heads
and hold my head high
I have no bad angles
I am confident in every light
I break limitations
quitting is not an option"

I really felt this was a powerful and motivating affirmation to repeat to yourself over and over to get you in the right frame of mind to lose weight and take control of your body.

Take care and speak soon
Mindful Mark

The Power Is Now

I hope you find this image as motivational as I did when I first saw it. For me it says The Power Is Now. You can only action change from this moment, not from the past and not from the future.

So why not do a meditation where you imagine yourself in a years time looking back to you at this moment in time. What would the you in a years time tell you to do right now?

It is a different way to think but can really help you get fantatstic weight loss results.

Take care and speak soon.
Mindful Mark

p.s If you need motivation whilst on the go you can get great weight loss tips direct to your mobile phone.

Healing Food

In an interesting article discussing Healing Food really got me thinking. Mark Hyman discusses his trip to China which confirmed his belief that Food is the best medicine.

After 20 years of practice, treating thousands of patients with chronic illnesses, I recognized, yet again, that the most powerful tool in my toolkit is food. Not surgery, not medication. What I saw in China is what I have been teaching my patients for decades: to literally eat their medicine and heal through food.
However, the notion that food is anything other than calories for energy and sustaining life is foreign to most Westerners.
Source - organicconnectmag.com

This is perhaps the key to our weight issues as a western culture, we generally see food as a treat and something we deserve and then start trying to reduce our calories to lose weight. If we could change our food mindset from 'Live to Eat' into 'Eat to Live' as the Chinese do we can live a longer, healthier and happier life with those we love.

The point of taking ownership of our life and health by developing the mindset of food as the best medicine to keep us alive for the longest period of time is one we at Mind Body Weight Loss fully support. This will be the basis of our Mind Body Weight Loss Product which is currently in it's early stages of being developed.

Another method of how the Chinese have demonstrated a way that we can take control of our health is when we visit the doctors . The difference is that we generally go to the doctors when we are poorly and ask them to make us better, which is giving our power away. In Chinese traditional medicine people visit there Doctors and ask 'How can I stay healthy?', which is self empowerment at its best. This is the type of mindset we at Mind Body Weight Loss are looking to help you foster. Until this time when our product has been developed you may want to checkout these alternatives, which are quite different but do help you focus on you weight loss mindset:

• The Weight Loss Attitude
• The Gabriel Method
• The Fat Loss Code

Taking ownership and viewing food as a fantastic source to stay healthy with the by product of losing weight is a fantastic way to change our perception to food and life in general. This new way of thinking can really extend our motivation too because its focus is on empowering us to stay alive as long as possible to be with the ones we love.

Take care and speak soon
Mindful Mark

Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 5

This final section of Mind Techniques for Weight Loss series focuses on Meditation and Visulaisation and how it can help you lose weight.

1 Imagine yourself eating like you should be. The more you imagine it, the more likely it will become reality.

Picturing the healthiest food and imagining eating it can have a positive effect on your body and mind and can encourage you to eat this food in real life.

2 Picture yourself thin. If you believe that you can and will be thin, then you give yourself the motivation and drive to actually make it happen.

By imagining yourself going from you current weight to your ideal weight sends a great message to your body of your goal, you are then much more likely to achieve your desired weight.

3 Think about activities you’ll do when you’re thin. If you’re too overweight to do things you love right now, picture yourself doing those things as the new, thinner you.

This is great forward planning and you could even start pacing yourself toward this activity.

4 Relax. You can’t take control over your thoughts and your mind if you’re stressed out and distracted. Simply relax and let go the problems of the day.

One good way to do this is to imagine placing all your stresses on to flying saucer about to leave earth and never to return. Really imagine this scenario right the way through to it taking off and going out of sight.

5 Picture yourself wearing something you’ve always wanted to wear. A big reason many people want to lose weight is to fit into the clothes and style that they love and admire. Get a mental picture of how you’ll look sporting something you’ve always wanted to wear to give you some motivation.

Start this by imagining to look at yourself in the mirror as you now watch as you become your ideal weight. Become aware of your feelings as you leave the house to walk to purchase this piece of clothing. Notice your confidence as you get to shop and try it on and then go to checkout and purchase it and go home and put it away ready to where it. Then finally imagine how you feel wearing it.

This visualisation/meditation is fantastic way to add to you motivation.

6 Imagine that you love to exercise. Rely on the power of imagination to help give yourself the initiative you need to get fit and in shape.

There is evidence to support that imagining exercise can be as effective as actually doing it. However if you are going to imagine 20 sit ups you just as well do them.

7 Don’t let negative thoughts interfere. It’s easy to think negative thoughts about yourself when you’re tackling a big and difficult obstacle like losing weight, but you have to make sure to keep these kinds of thoughts out during your meditation. Replace them with happy, supportive ones instead.

The quote of 'it doesn't matter how thin you slice it, everything has two sides' means that if you have a negative thought FLIP it to look at the other side and examine the positive angle, explore it and ask yourself why not follow the positive.

8 Kick all unhealthy habits and foods out of visualization. Don’t let your mental fantasies include unhealthy foods and behaviors. You might really crave them but the purpose is to retrain your mind to let them go.

Imagine anything unhealthy just disappearing from around you and as more and more healthy food takes over your imagination, notice how you are losing weight. This is a fantastic way a aligning your mind in to associating eating healthy and losing weight.

9 Breathe deeply and calm yourself. Once you’re calm, relaxed, and in control of your mind and body, you’ll be able to start thinking clearly about who and where you want to be.
Source - totallyzen.com

A great tip for this is to imagine your stomach is a balloon and as you taking in deep breaths your chest rise and as you continue to breath in your stomach rises like a balloon and you breath out your stomach go down followed by your chest really take notice of the rising and falling and you take 10 deep breaths.

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Read more in this series:
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 1
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 2
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 3
Mind Techniques for Weight Loss - Part 4