I wrote this article about 2 years ago when I wanted to lose weight and a handful of my clients were also trying to lose weight.
Two years later, I kept the weight off, in fact I now weigh a steady 45kgs, however I feel like the recent indulgence around my birthday celebrations and then falling sick because of too much celebrating made me pick up a few extra inches that I don’t want. So, I am at it again, now to lose inches, not so much kilos and again I am working with many men and women who have weight goals.
I am writing today to share some more of my tips that work. How often have you seen men and women walking, exercising, “dieting” and yet you can see little or no results?
How many of you go to the gym, have consulted with a nutritionist, watch your food intake and exercise so carefully, yet you are not as slim or lean as you want to be?
I am not a personal trainer or a nutritionist however my 12-week program does work! It works on my self and on my clients.
Email me if you would like to sign up for either the 12 week phone coaching program called.
Apart from the mindset-change, determination, understanding your motivation and getting all your “parts” to be aligned which is how I support you as a life coach, I also hold you accountable to doing what you commit to doing and I support you in making strong declarations and decisions.
A few tried and tested practical tips that I use myself are:
- Take out the added sugar completely. No soft drinks. No juices. Reduce alcohol to once a week
- Walk for 45 minutes to an hour every day (6 days a week min)
- Drink water – lots of water
- 45 to 60 minutes resistance training, I love Pilates and I go to: The Pilates Studio in Santa Cruz when in Mumbai:
- Think, walk, and be slim.
- Stock the refrigerator and home with what you believe a slim person would.
- Eat breakfast
- Eat protein after resistance training
- Liquid diet once a week
And so much more…but I would need you to sign up for more of my Secrets! J
If I say so myself, I just turned 40 and I have never been healthier!
Below is the article I wrote 2 year ago:
When I wanted to lose weight, I realized that I had to start behaving the way slim people did.
I have read in countless books how we should emulate successful people to become successful. Why re-invent the wheel?
We are encouraged to read the books of people like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and George Soros to learn how to become wealthy.
You can’t do what you always did to get a different result. I used to be very over-confident thinking I could eat what I liked and not exercise and still have the body I coveted. Seeing the kilos pile on slowly but surely and my clothes getting tighter to the point of having to go up a size, I realized that I had to change my strategy.
So, I started watching what my slimmer and healthier friends did.
I almost started to walk in their shadow. I started to shop for groceries like a slim person did. I dressed and walked the way slim people did, bought tracksuits and sneakers though I was not sure what exercise I was going to do. I decided I had to act the part. Fake it before I made it. Behave and look like a slim and healthy woman in order to become one myself.
I had always been the biggest couch potato. Sitting in front of the TV with a bag of salt and vinegar chips and a glass of wine. Most of my friends from decades ago would be able to tell you how I would feign sickness several times a week just to get away from doing any sports or physical fitness at school. In my school report cards, they declared me “Obese”.
I was the laziest person ever. If you have read my article on the law of attraction, you would know that I have a parking God that always gets me a parking spot just in front of wherever I needed to go, ensuring that I never had to walk anywhere.
But something happened, I literally made a decision one day that I wanted to drop a size by July 1st this year and I have already met and surpassed my personal goal and so have some of my clients.
I think a strong motivation for me was in having to walk the talk. I had to be authentic. I could not coach people into exercising and discipline if I did not practice it myself.
I performed an easy NLP technique on myself called “parts-integration” where I was able to establish congruency between all my “parts”. Without meaning to trivialize the issue, I used to feel that I had conflicting parts. A part of me wanted to eat like a glutton and another part of me wanted to be slim. Through NLP, I was able to merge the parts in the knowledge that all parts of me wanted the same thing for me – joy and peace.
Then came the bigger question, what would give me that peace? In this regard, I was able to establish that the eating was only going to give me momentary gratification or pleasure, while the dropping a dress size was hooked to so many other feelings of well being and joy.
I knew that achieving that would help me feel more confident and look better. I know that a lot of my daily frustration lay in trying to select something to wear twice a day and then looking at myself in the mirror, breathing my tummy in and still feeling extremely upset at the way I looked. I would have to change several times till I found something that looked the least fattening. Just the thought of being able to get rid of this frustration was enough of a motivation for me.
I got to the bottom of WHY I wanted to drop a size – to FEEL good about myself everyday. That was what made it easy to change my lifestyle. The other very important NLP suggestion is to phrase the goal in the positive. The human brain does not want to “lose” anything, not even weight. So, affirming that I want to lose weight, will not have the same power as saying instead, “I fit in a size 6” or “I am a 46kgs”. I started to visualise myself in “slim-clothes” and looking great. The vision I had of myself in my mind’s eye was like a magnet for me.
The instant I made the decision, everything that used to seem so difficult and tiresome, became so easy to do. Very soon after, shopping and cooking healthy for myself and committing time everyday to exercise became a habit. I started thinking, acting and being slim.
I dropped 1.5 dress sizes or 6kilos in that time. I am very happy with my accomplishment.
This feels more like a benchmark of my strength and discipline to me than anything else I have done. Walking on fire, and jumping off a 10-foot-pole was nothing compared to this.
Now my affirmation is “If I could do this (drop a size in 2 months), I can do anything”
The confidence that this has given me is amazing.
If you would like to take on my 60-day challenge and lose kilos and inches, sign me up as your coach and let’s see if we can get you here too.
