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<\/div>\n\nI know myself just how draining that is. And lifestyle change seemed so daunting. I mean the very phrase insinuates huge change.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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So what did I do?<\/h1>\n1) I told myself it would take time.<\/h2>\n2) I let myself be human, and cheat or fail every now n then. Well, regularly, to be honest.<\/h3>\n
2) I let myself be human, and cheat or fail every now n then. Well, regularly, to be honest.<\/h3>\n
3) I took a\u00a0 step back and changed how I looked at food.<\/p>\n
4) I challenged the thought processes<\/strong> that made me keep wanting to eat, while I was eating. I challenged these regularly. I rewarded myself regularly with congratulations and self-applause when I made the right choice. If I couldn’t help it, I’d make an excuse, knowing that I was forming neural networks that would solidify in the long run.<\/p>\n 5) I SLOWLY<\/strong> – we’re talking 1 pizza slice less per month\u00a0 – reduced my portion sizes.<\/p>\n 6) I ATE WHATEVER I WANTED – and let myself be human, knowing, that by reducing my portion sizes slowly over time, my stomach would get smaller and my brain would form neural pathways would make NEW thought processes that would become my habit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The most important part of this process is STEP NUMBER 3! Repeating step 3 for JUST THREE WEEKS HAS MEANT…<\/p>\n 7) I didn’t have to do anything else. I don’t have to do anything else. Ever. Neuoroplasticity has ensured that I never<\/strong> That’s it.<\/p>\n But keep reading to understand WHY step 3 is important, and how you can and should be doing this.<\/p>\n Check out my 40 page book which summarises all of this and cites everything<\/a><\/p>\n This book is\u00a0 free, I should monetize this to grow it, but I’ve got no time, and really would only monetize it to reach more people).<\/a><\/p>\n I hope it can help. And email me if you ever wanna talk. Keep reading on and I hope this helps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Everyone talks about how they can’t stay on a diet and how they can’t find the time to do exercise… They talk about how hard it is to make changes in their life and how they just don’t have the willpower or ability to be healthier people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n But even while on 50mg of prednisone, a corticosteroid (which increases your appetite, screw around with your hormones and energy metabolism, and eat away at muscles) and even while I was still getting some chemotherapy which makes me anaemic for a one or two weeks every month, I didn’t find it hard at all.<\/span> Doctors all tell us that weight loss requires a lifestyle change, rather than drastic, quick-fix 12-day-detox\/Biggest Loser boot camp solutions. And they’re right. You should look to lose weight AND keep it off. It’ll help you with heart problems<\/a>, lower your chances of diabetes<\/a>, reduces your risk of cancer<\/a> and also – a healthy diet can make you feel\u00a0better<\/em>,\u00a0more energetic than ever before.<\/span> In hthis picture, I was sitting at around 106-107kg. I was trying everything to get fit and lose weight. I started juicing, cutting carbs out of my diet and went out, trying to run, get back into my old sprint training and back into the weights. And that was working – as it would for anyone – for a few weeks at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Before: 107kg<\/p>\n But with my low immunity putting me into hospital with infections every few months, with my treatments lowering my bloodcounts, I kept getting sent back to where I began from over and over again… and it was frustrating as hell<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n I yoyo dieted. Like crazy. I calorie counted. Stopped carbs. Intermittent fasted. Got into calorie deficits.<\/p>\n But dieting is hard. Forcing yourself to not eat is unnatural and really hard to do consistently.<\/p>\n I wanted to lose weight and become as fit as I was before cancer… I wanted to see results… but they just weren’t coming.\u00a0<\/span> I wanted results and I wanted them NOW. But they weren’t coming.\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n The only time I gained weight again after that first burst of weight loss was 5 years ago, when I got a third cancer in my ribs, was in hospital, and when I thought I’d need chemo again. I got back to my normal weight 6 months after that. Without trying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n And how can you do this too?<\/p>\n 1) I told myself it would take time.<\/p>\n 2) I took a\u00a0 step back and changed how I looked at food.<\/p>\n 3) I challenged the thought processes<\/strong> that made me keep wanting to eat, while I was eating. I challenged these regularly. I rewarded myself regularly with congratulations and self-applause when I made the right choice. If I couldn’t help it, I’d make an excuse, knowing that I was forming neural networks that would solidify in the long run.<\/p>\n 4) I SLOWLY<\/strong> – we’re talking 1 pizza slice less per month\u00a0 – reduced my portion sizes.<\/p>\n 5) I ATE WHATEVER THE DUCK I WANTED – and let myself be human, knowing, that by reducing my portion sizes slowly over time, my stomach would get smaller and my brain would form neural pathways would make NEW thought processes that would become my habit.<\/p>\n 6) I didn’t have to do anything else. I don’t have to do anything else. Ever. Neuoroplasticity has ensured that I never In more detail and for the science, keep reading. If you’d like to read the whole science kinda thing, and check out the papers behind this – check out my 40 page book which summarises all of this (all free, lol, I should monetize this to grow it, but I’ve got no time and really would only monetize it to reach more people).\u00a0<\/a> –> This is one of the most important realisations you’ve gotta make. No matter how much we want it to, results don’t come in a few days. But they do come.<\/span><\/p>\n The trick is to not only remind yourself of this – but to keep looking at the big picture, on your entire journey – as this will make maintaining changes easier to accomplish. Instead of falling down in a heap if you can’t resist that desert at a party, you’ll remind yourself that the amount of times you had been good, and that in the long run, you were on the right path.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The science only helped me further believe, hell, it made me KNOW I could do it. But I mean it only made sense… I was only beginning my journey to get healthy – I was starting from scratch. It would take time to get to where I wanted to go. It wouldn’t happen overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n But that wasn’t a bad thing. I mean, it’s simple statistics. If I did things generally right, over a long period of time, I’d get to where I wanted to be. And by looking at it this way, I wasn’t forcing myself into doing something I didn’t want to – I was ALLOWING MYSELF TO BE HUMAN. knew I wouldn’t give up, or worry, or hate myself if I had a few slip-ups on the way either.<\/span> –> Instead of making huge, drastic changes to my diet, or instead of starving myself, I <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A self-distanced perspective is described as that of someone looking at themselves as if they\u2019re a fly on the wall<\/a>. In the short term, this stops you from reacting emotionally<\/a>, it reduces blood flow to limbic centres – it makes you more logical – and in the long term, it stops you from ruminating, or lingering over, things you can\u2019t control<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When you do take that step back, your medial pre-frontal cortex, which, when firing, is associated with feelings of negativity, fires less<\/a>. It\u2019s shown to increase the ability for depressed people to think more broadly, and fixate less<\/a>. It\u2019s shown to make you more objective – you\u2019re more likely to understand, and be realistic about things like understanding your chances of winning the lottery<\/a> by doing it. Older adults, demonstrate lower blood flow to emotional centres of the brain<\/a> and because of this, are what we call wiser – <\/i>more logical,\u00a0 less likely to react emotionally, and they\u2019re also more likely to be happier too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 You’ll get the person most likely to motivate you on your side – <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Motivation works best when it’ comes FROM YOU!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nAll I did to become a healthier person was change my MINDSET.
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\nEating the right foods, and getting some exercise on a continuous basis IS vital to weight loss. But what’s even more important is if you can maintain <\/i>that way of living.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nBut I’d lost nearly 20kg. It looks like a lot, but really, it was 1kg\/week.<\/div>\nSo how exactly did I get there?<\/h1>\n
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\nBut yeah. I hope this helps. Email me if it does or if you wanna talk anytime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n# 1 – I Told Myself that it Would Take Time<\/u><\/b><\/h2>\n
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\nThat’s exactly how you should look at weight loss, or any goal for that matter. It’ll give you the best chance of getting there (and of staying happy on the way too).<\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/p>\n#2 – I Took A Step Back, and Made SMALL Changes To How I LOOKED At Food<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n
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