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Losing Weight is all in your Head

By Lucy Beale
Daily News Miner

Losing weight and keeping it off requires more than healthy foods and lavish amounts of exercise. It requires using your mind and body in new ways.

For your mind, you need to get it aligned with your goal. For your body, you need to learn how to feel your stomach's hunger cues. And along the way, you may need to clear up hormonal imbalances and health issues while paying close attention to boosting your metabolism.

When my weight-loss clients integrate their total being with healthy eating and lavish exercise, they become the winners with reduced body-fat percentage and better health. You can, too.

Here's what to do:

Get your mind aligned by using affirmations and visualizations that declare you're already at your ideal size. Tell yourself often, "I am now a naturally thin person. I wear a size (insert your ideal size), and I do what thin people do." Don't worry if this seems totally outrageous and nutty. Just say it and pretty soon your subconscious will be eagerly supporting you to reach your goal size.

Set aside a time every day to visualize yourself already at your ideal size. Feel it. Use the power of your emotions to propel you into those skinny jeans.

Did you know that your stomach actually sends out a hunger pang to tell you when it's time to eat? If you don't feel it, don't eat. When you've eaten enough food to satisfy your hunger, your stomach again sends out another signal. This time it signals you to stop, that you've eaten enough. The only problem here is that most people by the age of 3 have figured out how to ignore their stomach and override its messages. To successfully lose weight, reconnect with your stomach's instinctive messages and honor them.

If you're metabolically resistant to losing weight, meaning that your metabolism is too slow, you need to reduce your body fat and increase lean muscle so you can lose weight and keep it off. Often diets and exercise alone can't do this but making lifestyle changes can.

Here's a partial list to start with of ways to boost your metabolism:

* Get plenty of sleep--seven to eight hours every night.

* Drink at least eight glasses of water every day.

* Don't sip on sweet-tasting liquids throughout the day.

* Avoid artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame (Equal) and sucralose (Splenda).

* Avoid eating soy products more than one to two times a week because soy suppresses the thyroid.

* Take 1-2 tablespoons of fish oil daily.

* Do Tibetan exercises daily for 10 minutes to balance hormones.

* Eat three balanced meals a day that include protein, vegetables or fruit, and healthy fats. Add snacks if you like.

Out-of-balance hormones and some health conditions, such as metabolic syndrome, make it harder to lose weight. Taking nutritional supplements can help your body correct these conditions while you release fat and build lean muscle. A few that can be helpful are calcium, magnesium and a fiber supplement such as psyllium.

Lucy Beale is a weight-loss expert and author of the books "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Loss," "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Carb Meals," "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Terrific Diabetic Meals." Visit her Web site at www.Lucybeale.com for a full list of ways to boost your metabolism, learn Tibetan exercises and to purchase her books.

SOURCE: Daily News Miner

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