Learning How To Achieve Weight LossThe more we learn, the more we achieve!
Learning how to achieve weight loss is important if you value weight loss. In these sections of our website, we show you effective ways of achieving weight loss. Quality in, quality out; garbage in, garbage out. So, nourish your mind daily with quality mental "food." Suppose that you didn't want to bother increasing your understanding in favor of just asking some expert.That might seem like a good idea until you realize that, without having expertise yourself, you have no way to know how to select an expert! Lots of people are happy to tell you what to do and even to sell you their courses. To the degree that you do not already understand what they are talking about, it's impossible for you to determine whether those materials are a waste of time and money or not.
Fortunately, ignorance is usually curable. Furthermore, you are the best expert on your own body. Besides that, nobody cares as much about your body as you do. There's another important benefit to learning for yourself: once you begin tending (caring for) your body properly, additional learning will increase your ability and motivation to do it well. Thinking is the process of asking and answering questions. Better questioning creates better lives. The more we learn, the more we achieve.
sidebar quotation from Albert Einstein: "The important thing is not to stop questioning."
When it comes to supplying answers, our minds are fertile. It’s as if—not liking unanswered questions—they’ll always supply some answer or other. Ask a question and our minds will come up with an answer. It's not easy to question well. We've found it useful to find a good role model such as Socrates or The Buddha and never to accept an answer that Socrates or The Buddha wouldn't accept. They were excellent questioners. It is important consciously and frequently to ask empowering questions. Furthermore, refuse to accept negative answers to empowering questions. For example, when something bad happens to you, if you are severely burned or crippled or sick or injured or depressed, if you ask, ‘Why me?’, your mind will supply some answer that will never lead to a positive result. If, on the other hand, you ask an empowering question such as, 'How can I use this to live better and to show others how to live better?', your mind will also supply an answer, but this answer may enable you to transform your difficulty into a positive force.
Questions Work in Three WaysFirst, a question immediately changes our focus and, so, our emotional reactions. For example, 'Why am I so fat?' or ‘Why am I always so unhappy?’ reinforce what is negative.Whereas, ‘How can I trim down?’ or ‘What can I do to become happier?’ reinforce what is positive. Our greatest asset is our ability to choose what we focus on. In that domain, we are completely free, and nobody can ever take that away from us. Why not focus on ways of living better? Why not focus on achieving lasting weight loss?
Asking instead 'What can I learn from this situation so that it doesn't repeat itself?' will help delete my anger and focus attention on using the present problem as an opportunity for growth. This always works when backed by "cooking" the emotion
(see Emotional Eating
and
Meditation).
Third, a good question improves our attitudes and habits. For example, the questions "Why don't I add lean muscle mass quickly?" or "Why do I so hate eating vegetables?" are disempowering questions that can lead to more disempowering questions that can undermine beneficial attitudes and habits. Alternatively, we can use questions to dispel doubt, questions such as ‘How did I ever get so lucky as to be able to pump iron twice a week?’ or ‘Do you know how grateful I am that I am able to eat as many vegetables as I want?"
For philosophers, on the other hand, living an unexamined life isn’t worth the trouble; as Plato noted, “the unexamined life isn’t worth living.” Again, it's your choice
(see Positive Attitude and Achievement).
If one does not examine life, one will not learn its lessons; anyone who does not learn life’s lessons will suffer their repetition. False beliefs, unkind words, and actions that cause harm are all opportunities to improve. Without examination, how could we learn from our errors? It takes a long time to learn life’s lessons. As long as you keep examining, please be patient with yourself. Learning should end only when we do.
The most effective and efficient way to keep learning is to It's always faster and usually much less painful to learn from the mistakes and successes of others than to learn from our own, isn't it?
We have read a ton of books on the spiritual, psychological, and physical practices related to achieving lasting weight loss. Some of them were really worth the time, energy, and expense (since we like to purchase books as well as audio and visual programs).
If you would like a list of recommended books divided by category, just click on this link:
to Best Self-Help Books
Please avoid the temptation of incessantly learning without doing anything better.
Here's how to avoid this: develop the daily habit of reading in a relevant book (or listening to or watching a relevant program).
Burke Hedges calculates that, if you read for only fifteen minutes daily, you'll read about 120 books in the next decade!
If you really want to make progress quickly, read for thirty or sixty minutes daily, but please don't substitute reading for doing what is required.
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