One limiting belief I had is the idea that I will lose weight fast. After losing 60 pounds already, it’s not going to come off very fast without radical effort.
A better belief is that I build new habits every day, continually working toward the long term goal.
Increasing the DIFF (Duration, Intensity, Frequency and Fun) of my good eating habits is the way to achieve a long term change.
Very likely the most common reason that I am not losing fast enough are the peak times when I eat more than my body needs. Therefore, increasing the DIFF of good habits is going to increase my loss.
I think I still have a limiting belief that I can’t eat less than I currently do.
Hmm. I think I can meet my emotional needs if I eat around 1500-1800 calories a day. That ought to also create weight loss, since I’m still (barely) over 300 lbs.
My notes:
- Building the habit, taking the action, then letting go of the outcome is the best way to build the permanent habits.
- Your body might hold onto weight because of your limiting beliefs. (I don’t really believe this.)
- A belief that you are helpless to change makes it hard to change.
- It takes time to stop thinking that it’s hard.
- To help remove my limiting belief that I can’t lose fast or consistently, I can focus on the good habits and the letting go of the outcome.
- Do I believe I can consciously and deliberately change? Not really.
- Think about the elephant on the chain. All it takes is a good hard tug on the chain to change the belief.
- When have I deliberately changed in the past?
- School
- Managing money
- Learned helpfulness is the antidote to learned heplessness
- The good habits are
- Veggies and fruit
- Self-correcting my portion and calories intuitively
- Walking
- The letting go can be achieved by
- Frequently practicing letting go on non-eating topics as well as eating
- Increasing the time between weigh-ins
