"Persistence: The
Hidden Secret Of
Your Weight Loss Success"
2005 by Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
www.CoachFrankSmoot.com
It occurred to me one day why persistence is such an overlooked and
underrated ingredient in weight loss success. So I looked at the
philosophy I've used to make successful change sin my own life.
My own personal reasoning goes like
this:
If you fail 9 out of the first 10
times you try, and then you fail 8 out of the next 10 times you try,
and then you fail only 7 out of the third 10 times you try, are you
moving in the right direction?
If you keep doing that, do you think you will get to a point when
you succeed more times than you fail?
And will you ultimately get to a point where success becomes the
norm, and failure the rare exception? If you do get to that point,
will your problem then be behind you?
Well that's all you're really doing.
What you need is to be clear enough about the goal, clear enough
about why you want to get there so that you can stop operation
primarily on unconsciously-triggered automatic motivations where the
outcome will be self-destructive, and start operating on conscious,
deliberately-chosen motivations where the outcome will clearly be
desirable.
That one single shift will take you—in time—from net failure to net
success, which is all you really need. All you need to do is to be
willing to stay with it, to keep from condemning yourself for the
inevitable interim failures, and to focus on your gradually
increasing success.
In time, your mindset will change, your attitude will change, and
your weight will change. With your commitment, your ever-increasing
self- awareness, and your ever-growing self-reverence, your success
will be inevitable.
This is exactly how I have eliminated my own self-sabotaging beliefs
and attitudes in the past, how I do it now, and how I will continue
to do it in the future.
The only real failure is quitting—which for me, simply isn't an
option.
As Peter Frampton asked us all, "Do
you feel like I do?"
Yours in total health,
Dr. Frank
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Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD, is a professional weight loss
success coach and the creator of the "Get
Motivated For Life! /
7 Weeks To Lifelong Weight Loss"
and "Weight Loss God's Way"
success program (www.WeightLossGodsWay.com)