I can't do it attitude...

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

If you continue to tell yourself you "just can’t lose weight", you will start to believe it.

Once you believe it, you will start to live up to it. You can do it. Giving up is an option for dead people only. Accompanying the "I can't do it" is a raft of very sneaky, tricky and ultimately self-tripping excuses. Here are some common ones:

· "I can't lose weight. I'm just too tired.": Your tiredness is sourced in those Cookies, chocolates, fast foods and processed meals. Your tiredness is sourced in being sedentary all the time, from the office to the couch. Your tiredness is sugar-filled. And your tiredness as a result of these things is a bit of a vicious circle––too tired to plan healthier food, too tired to plan a diet program, too tired to get up and exercise, and on and on it goes. Wake up to the reality that bad food and little movement create the fatigue.

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· "I can't lose weight. It's too boring to go without food.": Do your eyes glaze over every time you see the word diet or read a fitness schedule? Does "nutrition" mean "something dull people care about" to you? Are you stuck with visions of eating "rabbit food" for the rest of your life? If you see weight loss as a dent in an otherwise fun and exciting life, you've fallen into an excuse that losing weight will make life boring. This is an unfortunate excuse that blinds you to seeing the good things about weight loss (more energy equals more fun) and the fun and innovative things you can do with diets and fitness.

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· "I can't lose weight. I don't do deprivation; it's just not pretty. Anyway, who cares, I'd rather die young and happy than old and deprived." This excuse is fallacious; nobody wants to die in agony from disease and nutritional deficiencies. It's a short-sighted attitude that sounds hip now but will definitely land all around your hips later. Lifestyle dieting is not about deprivation; it's about managing food and exercise to ensure you lead a happier and more energetic lifestyle overall.

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· "I can't lose weight. I tried before and look, it all came back again." Sadly, most diets do this because fad diets and a diet frame of mind are destructive rather than helpful. What is important is to eat healthily for the long-term and to find a diet program in discussion with your health professional that is attuned to your lifestyle, not a temporary fix that you can only see an end for in a few months. Yo-yo dieting teaches little and actually ingrains bad habits by assuming that when the set diet time is up, the junk food can move on back in. It doesn't work like that––changing your eating habits is for life and moderation in all things becomes your new mantra, not "a little diet now, a lot of stuffing later"

[kll724 3,055]

Great!

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Thanks CG, have a great day!

[2muchfun 8,927]

"Ask for your limitations, and they're yours".....Richard Bach-Illusions

[Spaness2012 609]

I believe our attitude and perception makes all the difference in the world. One might see a 5lb weight loss as "not enough".....I force myself to see it as "5lbs off and they stayed off...well that's a success".

Thanks for this post!

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

i strongly feel that you CAN if you WANT to..

[CHEZNOEL 4,061]

Want it more than anything else! I agree!