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Here’s something that seriously bugs me - referring to how you eat by announcing, “I’ve been good today” or, “I was so bad today”.

Why does this bother me so much? Because you’re essentially labeling yourself as being either good or bad based on how you eat.

Well I don’t know about you, but I’m much more interested in loving myself as I am apart from how and what I eat and what the number says on the scale.

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Your belief is your biology. With every thought you think, there is an associated chemical reaction and physical affects. - Attacking Anxiety & Depression, week three.

Depending on how long you’ve been a smart reader of The Fit Shack, you may remember that I used to write daily motivational posts.

These posts were focused on your thoughts because how you think directly affects how successful you will be in transforming your lifestyle to get healthy and fit.

A very simple example is if you think negatively about your own ability to change such as, “I’m doomed to be overweight, I can never change, I was born this way, it’s in my genes”, then unfortunately, you’re right! You are what you think and it is absolutely true that thoughts are things - before anything manifests in the physical world there is a thought that precedes the action, the same thing being true for weight loss.

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I’ve written several posts about Michael Thurmond’s 6-Week Body Makeover lifestyle plan and you’ve heard me talk about it in my video posts, too, however there’s something that is included in the 6-Week Body Makeover kit that I haven’t mentioned yet - the 6-Day Mini Makeover.

The 6-Day Mini Makeover is a different plan than the 6WBMO and its purpose is to get you down one pant or dress size in 6 days. Just like the 6-Week Body Makeover you still eat more and exercise less to lose weight, however it is not a lifestyle plan and has some very specific guidelines:

• Never do the 6-Day Mini Makeover Plan until you have done at minimum a full 6 weeks of eating and exercising per the 6-Week Body Makeover plan.
• Only do the 6-Day Mini Makeover Plan once after a minimum of each 6 week period of the 6-Week Body Makeover plan and no more than once every 6 week period.
• Note: If you are following the 6-Week Body Makeover plan there is really no reason to even use the 6-Day Mini Makeover because the 6WBMO will give you excellent results without all of the restrictions of the 6DMM, as long as you follow the 6WBMO as it’s written.

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I’ve seen this many times before - well-meaning folks pinning all their hopes and dreams of happiness on their weight loss, thinking that once they get to their goal weight that they’ll be happy and fullfilled.

Unfortunately, thinking that weight loss will make you happy can backfire on you - weight loss does not guarantee happiness.

You’ll still be the same person on the inside once you reach your goal weight unless you take action and work on your inner self before or at the same time you work on your outer self. Also, unless you do that inner work, you just might find yourself going back to your old habits and regaining the weight that you lost.

Continue reading “Why Weight Loss Won’t Make You Happy & Why That’s a Good Thing”