Can you really lose weight faster with weight loss affirmations? What are these? And how do they work? Read on, you will find the answers in this article.

Weight loss affirmations are short, precise statements that you consciously say to produce a specific, measurable weight loss result, to progress faster towards your ideal weight and to be able to keep it with no deprivation or struggle.

Have you ever had thoughts like:

...I've tried every diet out there and each time I gain all the lost weight back

...I’ve always craved sweets

...I have a very slow metabolism, it is hard for me to burn fat

...I don't have time to exercise

...I feel guilty when I eat the foods I know I shouldn’t eat

... I will take time for myself only after I finish attending to my family’s needs

Then, weight loss affirmations will help you change your thinking to allow your body to release all extra weight. They use the power of your mind to shift your body's energy so you become able to:

• enjoy healthier foods and install healthier eating habits

• become more active and start exercising with ease

• improve the way you see and care for your body

• release stress, stay balanced and calm

• get clear about and stay focused on your weight loss goal

Weight loss affirmations work based on the fact that your current reality is a direct result of your prevailing thinking and emotional state.

This may be a new idea to you, unless you’ve seen the provocative movie "The Secret" or if you have read this highly acclaimed book that everybody is lately talking about.

If you want to understand how weight loss affirmations work, you’ll want a quick background on what neuro-scientists have demonstrated about how we create our own reality. The essence of what they say is this:

1. the totality of all our assumptions and of all that we say, think, and feel constitute our deepest beliefs

2. our beliefs ‘filter’ what we encounter and experience on a daily basis, so that our reality matches our assumptions and expectations to every tiny nuance

In other words, whether you like it or not, you actually 'create' your own reality, the reality that matches your core beliefs. As you can imagine, left unchecked, your beliefs and expectations can be destructive and create the exact situations you fear the most, worry about, or say you don’t want in your life. Agonizing, isn't it?

So what’s the connection between all this and weight loss affirmations?

Well, very simply put, using affirmations in a very specific way is proven to change first your conscious, then your subconscious thinking. And if you are like most people, you know how different thoughts trigger different emotions, right?

So, gradually, with weight loss affirmations both your thoughts and your feelings about your body, your eating and exercising habits change. Consequently, your current reality starts to be shaped by your new belief of what’s possible for you.

Believe it or not, when this belief becomes an unshaken certainty, things begin to happen - seemingly out of thin air… You start to enjoy healthier foods, eat less and more often, and be more active. You learn to release stress, rest, and take better care of your body. Shortly, all these become natural habits, or your ‘new reality’.

The way in which weight loss affirmations work might sound esoteric to you, but it is actually based on cutting-edge science. More importantly, is proven to work for everyone who uses affirmations correctly.

Find all this difficult to believe?

Think of the many peak performance experts who endorse the rapid results achieved through the correct practice of affirmations.

For example, Tony Robbins, the widely famous success coach, says:

"By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in your subconscious mind, and eventually becomes your reality. What you focus on - expands; that’s why you need to be careful what you think and believe, because that’s exactly what you always get!"

But before you start using weight loss affirmations, you have to understand one more thing: the most effective affirmations are the ones you create for yourself, for your unique situation. Also, those that you change somewhat so that they come from your heart and soul.

And remember this: you must create in your body the feeling of having reached already your ideal weight - without this feeling felt with every fiber of your being, your affirmations are worthless.

To summarize, in order to work...

...Weight Loss Affirmations Must:

• be short, clear, specific, and action-oriented

• be in the positive, and in the present tense

• stretch you some, but still believable

• be fuelled by your feelings of already having achieved your weight loss goal

• be charged with the energy of your five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch

• be repeated with conviction 7-10 times first thing in the morning & last thing at night for about three weeks, until new neurological pathways develop in your brain

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