Secret To Keeping It Off After You Lost It

97% of all weight loss stories go like this..

Act I – Frustration

Woman is living her life. She eats purely as a matter of ingrained habit without much thought. Gradually thoughts about her body wake up from a slumber and take over her head.

These thoughts create stronger and stronger feelings until her motivation to lose weight peaks and she decides to lose weigh for an occasion like a wedding, a vacation, for the summer or just because she’s feeling fat.

Act II – Mission Accomplished

Woman buys the latest diet book. Woman starves herself for a few weeks and maybe does some jogging. She drops pounds and a dress size or two. In her mind she says “Mission accomplished!”

Life will be different now. She’ll wear sexy clothes and men will swoon over her. She’ll toy with all of them, but will take only the best offers. Looking in the mirror she’ll see a fit goddess.

Act III – The Fall

Woman doesn’t realize that her metabolism is destroyed because she approached her fat loss the wrong way. She lost mostly toned muscle and only a little bit of fat.

Woman is now getting cravings that are stronger than usual because she had been starving herself for weeks. She starts to eat more impulsively and starts to gain fat.

A few weeks later she is fatter and flabbier than she was before the diet. She can’t stand her image in the mirror and has to go shopping for new (BIGGER) clothes.

She gets depressed.

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But the other 3% of weight loss stories for like this…

Act I – Frustration

First act is exactly the same as above.

Act II -  Commitment

Instead of jumping on the latest trend, woman takes a step back and a moment to think. She reflects on her previous failures and wonders why this time should be different. She is tired and drained, but not broken by past disappointments.

She decides that if she wants different results, she’ll have to take different actions.

Instead of looking to her next vacation or to next summer, she looks 1 year ahead, 5 years ahead, and 25 years ahead. She decides that she wants to get in great shape and stay that way forever. So she can truly see a fit goddess in the mirror every morning for the rest of her life.

She makes a lifetime commitment to get this part of her life handled.

Act III – The Journey

Since this is now a lifetime goal, it’s okay if it takes a little bit longer to get in shape. What’s a few extra weeks to get to your goal when your time horizon is 5 years?

Woman focuses on forming good eating and exercise habits first and foremost. She favors techniques that she can keep up for the rest of her life instead of focusing on the quick fix.

She gets on a journey to find her personal balance of healthy eating vs. indulgence, exercise vs. leisure. She decides just how far she wants to push herself. Does she need to be a fitness model or can she just be healthy with a flat stomach?

She realizes that this balance will change as her life circumstance change. She decides to take the long-term journey.

Some time later she finds herself in great shape. Sometimes she is a few pounds heavier and other times she does look like a fitness model, she always looks good and feels sexy.

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Why does the first story and in failure, while the second story leads to success? Because you need to focus on winning the battle not the war. In the second story the heroine never says “Mission accomplished!” because she understands that it’s a mission that can never be fully accomplished. As long as she wants to stay sexy, she’ll have to keep her on the it.

Going on an aggressive diet is not necessary to get in good shape, but it can help you get into GREAT shape that’s above and beyond the call of duty. However, before you can go on a diet, you need to get a good handle on your cravings and you need to establish a solid foundation of eating habits and exercise rituals.

Why? Because once the diet is over you’re going to go back to whatever you did before the diet. And if you don’t have good eating habits, then you’ll go back to crappy eating habits that made you fat in the first place.

Most women think that they need to first lose the weight and then do something to keep it off. In reality, you need to do something to make sure you keep it off first, and then lose the weight. You need to lay the foundation that will help you keep off the weight before you lose it. That’s the secret to keeping it off once you lost it.

I want to see your story follow the successful script. I want you to be in the 3% of successful women who manage to keep it off forever.