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Willpower – The Power Within.
When we first decide we need to lose a few pounds here and there, we go on a diet, and when we go on a diet, we know what’s in store for us.
The smaller meals, the low calorie foods, the exercise…and the temptation to eat all the wrong things associated with a diet!
It’s a sort of tease the mind plays with you, it nags away all day and you start cravings for sweet things, snacks, gap-fillers and small morsels of tasty munchies that you say to yourself “just one won’t hurt”!
But that one does hurt and that’s why many people fall off the diet wagon and it’s all down to our brain nagging us to give in, be weak and then bullying us to have quick snack.
This is where willpower should now take over. This is the single most difficult strength to get and to keep strong when on a diet.
Call it what you want, mind power, motivation, attitude…whatever, it all comes down to willpower to lose weight and get fit.
Define: Willpower
It’s an inner strength that works on so many levels and it’s something we need to train and support.
Losing weight is just one avenue this ‘inner strength’ is used for; others include smoking, drinking, drug taking, lethargy and so on. What we notice here is all those things are bad for us and our willpower is the good that is trying to kill the evil.
We take two of those ‘sins’ mentioned above to try and beat the evils of temptation in weight loss and exercise.
Willpower in Weight Loss
This one is probably the hardest of the two because we’re on a diet 24/7, exercising only takes a small percentage of our lives. So, how to increase Willpower?
Well, at the start of our weight loss mission, the ‘want’ is there in bounds because our venture is new, but after a couple of days (hours for some!) it starts to waver and temptation starts to take over and before we know it that doughnut has been destroyed!
Where was that inner strength to stop us?
It was there all along, it’s just that the temptation was stronger at that moment than the willpower. If we take that one moment of weakness and analyze it, we will see it could have been so different and the doughnut would still be safely untouched.
As soon as that temptation or cravings comes along, grab a glass of water and drink it, or if your out and about, take a 500ml bottle of water with your for such emergencies.
After you’ve drank the water, wait for 5-10 minutes and miraculously temptation has gone and that motivation has come back, fully refreshed and ready to get stronger.
Have water with your meals too, so half way through drink a glass of fresh water, wait a couple of minutes and the temptation to finish the meal would have been felled and you simply push the meal away because you have been satisfied and you’re belly thinks you’re full.
Discipline has been achieved.
How to Build Willpower
There are other ways to help build your willpower, but I find drinking water kicks out cravings and refreshes inner strength and motivation the best, and that kicks in the willpower to carry on with your weight loss plan.
Willpower and Exercise
We need to do at least some form of exercise to lose pounds. This comes as a complete nightmare to some slimmers as they don’t feel they can do it.
Hogwash! Summon up the inner power by looking at yourself every day in a full length mirror for a good 5 minutes. Turning around looking yourself up and down (probably best to do this au natural, just make sure you close the curtains!)
This will give you the motivation to get out there and at least do a bit of walking for 30 minutes or so. Every step is a step towards weight loss and well being.
The will to drive home the power of a motivational mindset is all within YOU. You just have to reach out a little and grab it and use it.
What you see in that full length mirror is what gets you down; it’s what makes you miserable, irritable and shouts ‘lack of confidence’.
Think of how it makes you feel right now, and then think how great you will look in a few months time and how great you will feel.
Whenever you feel you need a blast of willpower, strip off, take a good look in the mirror and do something about it.
You don’t have to join a gym or go jogging, or lift weights, or go swimming; you just need to do SOMETHING.
Get out of the house and walk briskly for 30 minutes. You will feel so much better about looking in the mirror every day.
You will even start to look forward to the visits to the mirror!
So there you have a couple of tips (if a bit harsh) to get you the willpower you need to keep up a diet and fitness plan.
Sometimes we need a kick up the butt and a reality check to keep on track of our desired body shape.
You can also take an appetite suppressant to help you build your willpower and cut your cravings down. There are plenty of them within this website and a section on the best out there can be read here.
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