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To be a slim person, you have to live like a slim person. You have to see yourself as a slim person. This means having a very clear picture in your mind of what it is like to be a slim person, how to behave like a slim person, how to present yourself as a slim person, all the time. You have to mentally turn into that person. Even though you are not there yet, by pretending that you are, by acting as though the weight has already gone, you are programming yourself to succeed.

A slim person is not someone who is on a diet. She does not wake up and tell herself that she will be ‘good’ today. Acting slim means that when you look in the mirror you don’t dwell on the rolls of fat round your waist and hips. You simply check that the clothes you are wearing look OK and move on. It means you don’t call yourself names like ‘greedy pig’ and tell yourself you look ‘fat and revolting’.

Slim people see themselves as attractive and energetic. They automatically veer towards healthy food and limit their intake of the more fattening varieties. They would rather eat two squares of good quality chocolate than gorge on several bars of the cheaper kind.

Slim people do not have a problem making food choices. They do not agonize over whether they should or shouldn’t eat some fattening item of food in case it starts them eating for the rest of the day. They simply avoid eating obviously fattening food because they know it will make them fat. Fat people know this too but always seem to be amazed and depressed when it happens.

The rules for living like a slim person are very simple:

You have to be in control of your eating – no mindless picking.

You have to make a commitment to eat healthy food. If you want to be slim there is no point eating the sort of food that makes you fat. This food usually contains refined sugar.

You have to delete the diet mentality – whether you are having a ‘good’ or a ‘bad’ day, meaning whether or not you ate anything fattening today.

You have to change the way you behave. If your life is one chaotic rush with no time for anything, that has to be sorted.

You have to make time for some regular activity in your life. Everyone can find 20 minutes a day for exercise if they want to.

You have to change the way you think about yourself and the way you think about food.

Most importantly, you need to have a clear picture in your head of what you want to look like when you have lost your excess weight, what you will feel Like when you are slim, how you will behave when you are slim.

Once you know what you really want—a slim, healthy body—getting there takes resolve and commitment. If you have spent most of your life just moaning about what you don’t want— how you hate being fat, how you can’t stop eating—then simply making the commitment to be slim will seem unnatural.

Lose the ‘fat’ thoughts in your head and you © will lose the fat on your thighs.