The Indispensable Role of Mind Training in a Weight Loss Effort

By Sherali S. Bharwani

You have always been told that it's your mind that is primarily responsible for all the successes that come about in your life. Even in the those fields and situations, where it might seem that the mind has a secondary role to play, it's still the magic inside the brain that makes you win.

To be successful in any effort, endeavor or environment, you must be able to change and control that environment or endeavor. And it is the use of one's own mind that is ultimately his sole means of achieving that goal.

Likewise, in a weight loss effort, your mind is your most important tool that determines if the effort is going to be a success or will doom to failure. At the end of the day, to be successful in a weight loss effort, you have to control and use the power of mind as your primary tool along with the diet and exercise plan.

It is your mind, thoughts and the various associated mental states like nervousness, depression, anger, guilt, impatience etc. that are the initiating causes and materializing factors in making and keeping you overweight.

So naturally, if your mind is responsible for your overweight-ness (by making you eat in ways that make you fat), only your mind can work as a senior partner in getting rid of that weight and keeping it off permanently.

It's very simple to understand and appreciate the direct role of mind in a weight loss effort's success. If you can somehow bribe your mind to help you in losing weight, it will make your body (and you) change its dietary attitudes and your feelings towards eating.

When that happens, naturally the next thing that changes is the act of eating itself. And when you eat differently, you weigh differently!

So to make the long story short, it truly is the power of your mind that adds the most powerful possible success leverage to any diet or exercise program.