If You Want to Lose Weight, Stop Making Excuses!
It’s probably the easiest thing in the world. You’ve been at it for years, so you don’t find it difficult at all. You can make excuses any time of the day or night and your conscience is always crystal clear. No need to worry about a thing. You can just carry on as normal. Life is just one excuse after another.
Excuses are easy to make - and notoriously difficult to remember, but we are all very good at making them. So goo in fact, that we actually convince ourselves that we’ve done the right thing. We also get pretty smart at sensing a time when a decision has to be made - so good that we always have an excuse at the ready.
Unfortunately, there’s a price to pay for always making excuses. Deep inside you know that the longer you put something off, the more difficult it becomes to get a positive result. Excuses make things more difficult. They make you feel bad about yourself too, no matter how hard you try to convince yourself otherwise.
Losing weight is a case in point. There’s never a good time to start, is there? The longer you put things off, the more of a problem they will become. You’re just storing up a whole lot of aggravation for the future.
The simplest and most effective way of getting out of the habit of making excuses is just to stop making them. If you start to sharpen up your awareness and notice when you make excuses it will be an enormous help too. Just make up your mind to stop messing around and just get on and do it! The feeling of relief when you finally break the cycle of excuse making will be fantastic.
What is the real secret? It’s called self-discipline. Self-discipline is not something to be wary of, it’s very empowering. Self-discipline is something to feel good about. It will be the one thing that will be an enormous help to you when you finally decide that you’re going to lose weight.
Now, before you rush off to find another diet, think how you can develop your self-discipline. Instead of dieting make change in your life. Learn new habits - slim habits.
The best way to do this is this: every time you are tempted to make an excuse go out of your way to give a positive, affirmative response. Get this habit and you’ll soon realize that learning new habits is the key to change - and hopefully a slim, new you.