Need help with diet

QikSmurf

Mate, it has been my experience as a coach (not cycling) that the last few kilo's in anyone's weight loss goal, are the most difficult lose.

Everyone knows the key to weight loss is to consume less calories than you use. People that keep quoting that little gem are never really helping people in your situation. Even the fattest people know "how" to lose weight. The key is in your mental approach. Particularly those that have been overweight for a long period of time. Subconsciously, you mind sees your physical body as it has always been; overweight. When you lose weight, your subconscious mind is getting you back to your former shape, and it is at that critical part in your life that people go one way or the other.

I have had lots of successful students overcome the physical weight barrier by subconsciously focusing on a "different" you. I have had many achieve 90% of their goal weight or more and then fall back to their old shape within months. The determining factor lies at this critical point where you need to let go of all your former physical identity and begin to "see" yourself as a different person.

Basically the title of this thread is a cry for help, but not with your diet. At an intellectual level you know what to eat and what not to eat. You have lost considerable weight and you know how to lose more. The trick is to see the way you are NOW as the upper weight range for the new person you want to be. You need to let go of the sense of achievement so far because it causes you to compare yourself to how you have always looked (overweight). Think of what you are now as the starting point, not as almost reaching the finish line.

The plan for you is to talk about your body weight as though you expect to be 8 pounds lighter than you are now. The challenge is to NEVER talk to people about how much weight you have lost in TOTAL. For example, if you see someone you haven't seen in a long time and they comment on how good you look, DON'T say, "yeah I've lost 38lbs!" Instead, try and say something like, "I feel great and I'm starting to lose weight". If you are directly asked about how much weight you have lost, you really need to make a conscious effort to deflect the question and not quote a figure based on you former self. No this once, not ever again.

It will amaze you in the future when you realise that this actually works.....whicever way you decide to go!