When you go on a diet and decide you want to lose some weight, most people think “I’ll stop eating so much, maybe do a bit of exercise and be my ideal weight in just a few days” . Sadly, these people end up disappointed and usually heavier than when they started.

Dieting is not just a physical process but a mental one too.
If you do not have the mental processes right then your diet will be a struggle and possibly fail. By having the right mental approach and being in control of your brain you can turbo charge your way to your ideal weight.

So how do you get in control of your brain then?

Before, you need to know that you are made up of two parts.
You have your conscious mind, which is your ego – the part that chatters on all day.
Then you have your sub-conscious, which is the part that grows your hair, your nails, pumps blood around your body and so on.

This is a very powerful thing to know, because most people fail in their diets because they do not have the sub-conscious mind working with them, and so it sabotages their efforts.
Consciously you want to lose weight, but sub-consciously you enjoy the extra weight for various reasons, e.g. security, lack of attention from the opposite sex, etc.

The first step in making any change is awareness . This means you become aware of the way your brain works and how you think about yourself and weight loss.

For example, lots of people will say, “I’m struggling to lose weight” or “I hate dieting” or something along those lines.

The words you use program your sub-conscious mind. When you say things like this you are giving a strong message to your subconscious mind which takes it all on board.

The same if you say, “ Why can’t I lose weight?” or “Why am I always eating so much?” or anything like this your sub-conscious mind will give you the answers and tell you why! And how will that make you feel – not so good I imagine!

Being in control of your mind means being in control of what it says to you – it doesn’t operate on its own doing what it wants, it operates in a pattern that it has learnt over the years from you. And the nice thing is, this habit – you can change it!

So the first step is to become aware of what you say to yourself when you talk about your dieting and weight. What do you say? Think about this now …

Is it positive and encouraging? Or is it not?

Over the next week, listen to how you talk to yourself about your weight, your appearance and your diet.

Now you are more aware of what you are saying to yourself about dieting and losing weight, you can start to reprogram yourself and get rid of those patterns.
When you hear yourself say something that is discouraging or negative about yourself stop yourself immediately and change it into something positive and encouraging – something that makes you feel good.

When you start doing this you will soon notice that your diet becomes so much easier and the weight disappears!


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We are what we eat, and this statement is true in more senses than one.
Thousands of years ago, this fact was already known to people living in India, who eventually developed the intricate postulates of nutrition based on the teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda . Even now, it is highly unlikely that you can meet an overweight person in India or even in our highly industrialized world, if those are yogi aspirants who have acquired the basic principles of the
Ayurvedic diet.

In accordance with this ancient teaching, a natural diet is based on fresh, light, nutritional food such as fruits, grains, vegetables, and dairy products . It not only keeps the body lean and limber, but also ensures that the mind stays clear and sharp and that the spirit is getting closer to enlightment. Full of subtle live energy, prana, this pure and moderate diet is a practical instrument against obesity and the best possible guarantee of physical and mental health.

The yogic way of eating is simply the most natural. It is based on the teaching of three Gunas that exist in equilibrium and characterise certain qualities of the universal energy: Sattva ( purity ), Rajas ( passion, activity, and change ), and Tamas ( inertia and darkness ). Once energy takes a physical form, one of the three qualities predominates - the process that we can easily observe in people who prefer particular products in their everyday diet. Let us consider the example of an apple. “ Sattvic ” personalities will prefer to eat the fruit in its natural, fresh form; Rajastic people will give a preference to its processed form, like in an applesauce, while Tamastic personalities would choose its fermented form - apple cider .

By observing people around us, we can easily identify their dominant Guna. An alert, quiet, satisfied, and calm person with a lean and flexible body certainly exhibits Sattvic qualities; a passionate, angry, greedy, and unstable person who craves money, power, and possessions (the characteristics, which are quite typical for the Western societies) exhibits a usual Rajastic personality. Finally, an overweight or even obese person, lethargic and depressed, with a dull mind and a lazy body, will give us a miserable picture of a Tamastic personality, which, unfortunately, more and more dominates nowadays in the industrially developed countries.