Think yourself thin
M. Ron Eslinger, RN, CRNA, MA, APN, BCH, CMI, FNCH
When I lecture I like to ask the class if they have ever been hypnotized. Usually one or two will hold their hand up to indicate that they have. I then say let me ask the question in a different way. “How many of you have ever been married?” If you held up your hand then you have been hypnotized. Next question, “How many have ever been divorced?” We call that self-hypnosis.” In the same way your thoughts get you married or divorced you can Think Yourself Thin.
Eighty Percent of the population is moderately too highly open to suggestions from others and from themselves. Suggestions we give ourselves are the most powerful. However, as they pass through the conscious mind, they are evaluated and influenced by our past experiences before being sent to the subconscious mind. Which means if you have tried to lose weight before and didn’t your thought is that you can’t lose weight and the subconscious mind believes you and keeps you doing the things you been doing which keeps you over weight.
The subconscious mind does not reason, it takes every thought literally as a child would. For example, when he was three I decided to teach my grandson how to hit a golf ball. I got him the little plastic club and placed the ball on the ground in front of him and said, “keep your eye on the ball” with out hesitation he bent over picked up the ball and pressed it against his eye.” An adult would evaluate the request and do through past experience what was expected.
The subconscious mind takes every thought as a truth whether real or not. An example is when you think of eating a lemon your body responds as if you are eating the lemon – not thinking of eating a lemon.
So, if you tell your subconscious mind you are fat the subconscious mind works to keep you fat. Simply stated, we are what we think we are. We become that which we see ourselves to be. Whatever the mind possesses the body expresses. Therefore, change your mind and change your body.
To think yourself thin you must imagine yourself at your optimal weight eating the right foods in the right amounts and being physical active.
The simple fact is that our weight is determined by the amount of energy in calories that we take in compared to the amount of energy in calories that we burn. When you burn more calories than you take in you lose weight. To lose one pound you have to burn 3,500 more calories than you eat.
Think yourself thin:
- Continuously imagining yourself at your optimal weight.
- Eat Breakfast – People who do not eat breakfast will gain about 10 pounds a year.
- Eat something about every three hours in order to maintain metabolic rate.
- Drink 16 ounces of cool water when you get up and lose approximately 1 pound a month.
- Drink half your body weight in ounces of water each and every day. Coffee and Colas are not water.
- Take off 12 pounds a year by Not eating the equivalent of one cookie a day.
- Walk a brisk 20 minutes each day to lose 12 pounds per year.
- Do not diet! Do not weigh! You tried that already. It does not work.
- Imagine yourself enjoying fresh fruits and vegetables at your optimal weight.
- Increase physical activity. When shopping park at a distance from the store. That short walk will make a great difference.
It is simple and it works so do it! Don’t try to do it