For Weight Loss It's Want Power You Need Not Will Power by Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP

The problem isn't that you don't have enough will power to

achieve what you want. You have will power, but it's not will

power you need, it's want power.

You have to first want

You must want to change your habits, want to lose some weight,

want to give up your evening snacking before your will comes into

play. Once you want a thing badly enough, you will do whatever it

takes.

If you think you want something (to make a change in your eating

habits perhaps), but then find it difficult to follow-through

with your plans, most likely you simply want your current reality

(your current habits and patterns) more than you want your goals

(less weight, better health, etc.)

I can hear you all the way over here, telling me I'm wrong: "No,

that's not right! I want this more than anything, I just don't

have any willpower!" Round and round you go, but the truth is,

you will get what you really want. Think back, has there ever

been a time when you really wanted something? A certain piece of

clothing, a certain house, car, job, spouse? Hum... Yes, we go

after what we want, if we really want to acquire or achieve it we

do. Nothings going to fall in your lap, you've got to go get what

you want.

What's Going on?

Put another way, you may want to avoid the pain (breaking old

habits, avoiding some favorite foods, simply not overeating...)

more than you want to gain the pleasure (losing some weight,

gaining new habits, eating favorite foods in moderation ...)

Since losing weight takes time, from weeks to months to years,

it's easy to fall off the path. It's always easier to get back

into our old habits of eating, eating, and more eating. There's

always more food. Unless you are too poor to purchase it, there's

plenty food in America - in fact, too much food, and so it

becomes even more necessary to keep the longer-term goals in

mind.

How do you keep the longer-term goals in mind, when the

short-term food is staring you in the face? What about all the

treats offered, what about the commercials, the billboards, the

signs everywhere that say EAT?

Wanting, in fact, is the "W", the first step in the W.H.A.C.K

approach. See it in the free e-book, Changing Beliefs, Your First

Step to Permanent Weight Loss.

Think back to when you last really wanted something. Wanted it

more than anything, had to have it, would do just about anything

to get it. To want is a mighty powerful motivator, but

surprisingly we aren't all motivated by what we want. Some of us

are motivated by avoiding what we don't want.

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BIO:

Kathryn Martyn, Master NLP Practitioner, author of the free
e-book: Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight
Loss, and owner of http://www.OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com

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