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To get a clearer picture of how things will be, you have to move towards something positive, not just away from something negative. Create a picture in your mind: in this corner there is ‘you’—overweight, feeling heavy and lumpy and hating yourself. This is a very painful state to be in. Over in that corner is ‘you’ as you want to be—slim, light and attractive and feeling good about yourself. No pain there. When you have embarked on a weight-loss programme before, you have simply gone on a restrictive diet without a clear plan or strategy. At the beginning, your motivation is obviously high. As the pounds disappear you begin to move away from the ‘fat you’ corner and the pain lessens slightly. Then when the hunger and cravings start to kick in, you go back to your old habits and begin to eat a ‘little bit’ of the fattening foods you ate before. Soon you get sucked back into the fat corner because nothing has really changed. You have simply gone on a diet without changing your behaviour or your lifestyle, without including any extra activity into your life, without a specific strategy for change.

If you keep on doing the same, you will keep on getting the same. However, once you stop being reactive and make a definite commitment to change your way of life, you will gradually and steadily start to move towards the positive corner, and become the slim ‘you’ that you want to be. In this way, you are not just moving away from something negative—the ‘fat you’—but towards something positive—the ‘slim you’.

To do this you have to be very clear about how your life will be different once you have lost the excess weight. What aspects of your life would you have to overcome or change in order to become the person you want to be? What are you doing right now – or not doing—to impede your efforts to get slim?

Negative thoughts produce negative results. Positive thoughts produce positive results.