I am constantly trying to figure out all the different things that are holding people back from losing weight. For some people the answer is more obvious and easy, they just don’t want to put the work and effort in. What’s stopping you losing weight?
But for some people there is a certain mental block at the root of the problem, and without identifying it and dealing with it accordingly weight loss is always going to be a losing battle.
Everyone is different but here are a few of the main prohibiting factors I come across.
What’s Stopping You Losing Weight?
1/ Fear of Failure.
You are scared you won’t be able to lose the weight. You are not sure you can really do it, so to save yourself from the pain of potentially failing, subconsciously you are unwilling to properly commit to doing it. Trying and failing would be a lot harder to take for most people.
What can you do? You have to believe you can do it and you can succeed. If you don’t you will be fighting a losing battle. So to succeed you really have to throw yourself into losing weight and make it happen.
2/ Fear of putting the weight back on (again).
If you have lost weight in the past and put it back on again this could apply to you. Because you are scared you may not be able to keep the weight off if you lose it (like last time) subconsciously you are stopping yourself losing the weight. This is a sort of self protection mechanism because you felt awful about putting it back on last time and don’t want to go there again.
So what can you do? Think of last time as valuable experience, not a failure. Figure out what made you put the weight back on last time. Deal with that issue and you have nothing to fear.
3/ What if things still aren’t great when you have lost the weight?
For some people losing weight is based around becoming happier. But what if your life still isn’t what you want it to be when you have lost weight? What do you do then? So again out of fear you stop yourself succeeding.
Firstly your weight has a massive bearing on your happiness. Losing the weight will unload a massive burden and make you a lot happier. But of course there may be other parts of your life you want to change/improve as well. But there is nothing stopping you improving those as well. Don’t think of weight loss as the answer to everything but it will undoubtedly help you massively.
Conclusion – What’s Stopping You Losing Weight?
Figuring out which (if any) of the above apply to you is half the battle. Knowledge is power. So be honest with yourself then you can work on tackles the problems.
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