Yes, ‘Love Your Body’ leads to you losing weight! That is why I give you 11 concrete, immediately applicable tips to help you love yourself and love your body.
Now, you must be wondering, how can loving my body help me lose weight? Well, I’m goin to tell you this in a very precise manner in the text that follows. After reading it, just follow the tips – there are 11 in total – that fit your lifestyle and they will help quickly you lose weight.
At the end I’ll even throw in a word about how SkinnyLove can help you lose weight easily as well. Read on.
LOVE YOUR BODY – PUT THE POWER OF YOUR MIND TO WORK FOR YOU
Pinching your ‘love handles’ or feeling bad because you don’t look like the dolls you see on Instagram will not help you achieve your weight-loss goal. Do you know what will help? Love your body. Really!
Every time you have negative thoughts or feelings about your own body, without even being aware of it you are setting yourself it into a ‘fight or flight’ mode. And what happens then might surprise you.
“Your heart rate rises a little (often without this being noticeable to you), your digestion slows down, or even stops completely, and you experience a surge of your cortisol (the stress hormone) and of your insulin,” explains Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
The thing is that all these factors make you alert to danger and order your body to store extra fat. Because in earlier times – such as during prehistory – danger often indicated the start of a period of lack of food. And we are biologic result of this evolution. This extra fat storage is exactly the opposite of what you wish for when you try to lose weight. Research in the Journal of Endocrinology even shows that psychological stress increases the risk of insulin resistance, but never mind.
These scientific, biological, facts might perfectly explain the following surprising finding, which was published in the International Journal of Obesity.
‘Women who think they are corpulent –whether this is true or not- face a greater risk of becoming overweight in the future!‘
In other words, if you have a negative self-image, you automatically work against yourself.
Unfortunately there are many people who frequently criticize their own body and often have negative thoughts about themselves. If happiness is your ultimate target and the journey towards this goal is filled with a kind of self-hate, then reaching your goal becomes really difficult.
HOW DO YOU GO FROM SUCH A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TO THE ‘LOVE YOUR BODY’ MENTALITY THAT IS PREFERABLE? HERE COME THE 11 USEFUL TIPS I PROMISED YOU.
1. Take a deep breath and Love Your Body
Every time you look at yourself in the mirror and you feel that your self-criticism is coming up, immediately close your eyes and take 5 to 10 really deep breaths. While breathing, focus on the sentence “I Love My Body”. This may seem self-deceptive, but in combination with the deep breathing, it will automatically pacify your mind and take you to a zone of positivity. And even if this technique only reduces the duration of your self-hate from 5 minutes to 2 minutes…then you have already gained 3 minutes already. And if you keep doing this easy exercise, the annoying negative reflex will even completely disappear after some time.
2. Get Physical and Love Your Body
A nice way of building a more positive contact with your body is to grant your body some physical pleasure. Which form this should take varies from woman to woman. Check what you find to be tasty (besides junk food, snacks, or candy). What makes you feel good about yourself. This can be intimacy with your partner, some physical activity, a warm bubble bath, or even a massage. Simply something that you really enjoy on a physical level.
The key to success is to be as aware as possible of this experience. Pay attention to the good vibes that flow through your body during this activity. Indulge yourself. Think about the ‘Love Your Body’ concept.
3. Use Mantras
Mantras come from meditation. A mantra is a tool where a word, or combination of words, becomes the focus of your thoughts. You already know that your usual negative internal dialogue has bad consequences for your effort towards weight loss. Well, a positive internal dialogue, on the other hand, sets you on the right path. If you’re standing somewhere waiting, focus your thoughts on a mantra such as “I love myself”, “I shower my body with love until it becomes what I hope for”, or something like that. Adjust it to fit your own beliefs, but you do understand what I mean, don’t you?
4. Stay away from the scale
I don’t mean that you are never allowed to step on the scale any more. It is certainly good to take note of your weight when you start. But this is to determine how much weight you want to lose. But it is really pointless to weigh yourself every single day. 
Because your body weight fluctuates on a daily basis for very diverse reasons, such as, for example, water retention. If you suddenly see your weight increase, for a reason that is temporary, it can cause a dent to your self-confidence.
I personally enjoy not to weigh myself for a few days in a row and to do it suddenly if and when I am 100% sure that I have stuck to my intentions for several days in a row. Because I’m sure I’ll see how much weight I have already lost! And this encourages me to hold steady.
One more positive point about not stepping on your scale every day is that it allows you to more easily believe that you have started losing weight. And as you already know by now, negative thoughts about your body prevent you from easily losing weight! Positive feelings stimulate you towards the result you desire. So, do not step on the scale every day and…Love Your Body!
5. Avoid unrealistic photos
One of the worst things you can do is continuously comparing yourself with unrealistic photos of celebrities in magazines or on the internet. These people have personal trainers, plastic surgeons and…the photos are almost always Photoshopped. Such pictures are just not real!
Do not let them discourage you. Read positive stories. Stories of ordinary people who overcome an obstacle and accomplish their goal. Because you too will accomplish your goal.
6. Pay attention to beauty around you
We often don’t really look at people, objects and places that we see every day. Look purposefully at people and things. Search for beauty around you. Take a good look at that tree that you walk or drive by every day. Look at details on facades of houses. Look at a nice object, painting or furniture that you have chosen for yourself. And focus on it’s beauty.
This boosts the positive feelings in you. And it lowers the barrier for the – yes, I know that I’m being repetitive, but it is for YOUR own good – ‘Love Your Body’ effect.
7. Be realistic
Sorry for being so blunt, but you will not lose 8 kilos in a week! But it is perfectly feasible to lose 4 to 5 kilos within 3 to 5 weeks. Quick fixes just don’t work in the long run.
Don’t suddenly start fasting and live on just water and cucumbers or something insane like that. Be realistic and be patient. Losing weight in the long run is what matters. Not what happens during the first 48 hours.
Permanent weight loss is mostly a matter of picking up some good habits. Not of acting outrageously for a short while. These good habits must be of the kind that you can hold onto for a long time. The longer you maintain your new good habits, the more they automatically become a part of your daily life and routine. Exactly in the same fashion that bad habits can unfortunately occupy a set place in your daily life.
An additional benefit of being realistic is that it allows you to enjoy your small, intermediate victories. With every obstacle you overcome in the right direction, you realize you have taken another positive step. Enjoy these positive changes in your body and your life. Enjoy this evolution that will have an astonishing impact for you in the long run.
8. Choose physical activity and an eating pattern that you can sustain
If you are a bit like me, and like most of us women actually, I suspect that you have already tried all sorts of diets. With varying results. I have also registered twice in a gym…without ever going there again after the first visit. How about you? It is all well and good to start off with good intentions and with the assumption of a rock-solid discipline.
But in truth you must feel confident about your approach and your perseverance. Think about what constitutes a realistic approach for you. If you haven’t done any sport at all in the past years, don’t start with Zumba classes for the advanced. Just begin walking or carefully jogging. This way, you gradually evolve towards more physical activity… and less eating.
9. Find support
Unless you live all alone on an island (with a decent internet connection, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read this), there is a good chance that someone in your environment is willing to support and encourage you in your resolution.
Ask a friend to go walking with you 2 or 3 times a week, or do sports with you, or even think along with you about your eating plans. Because it actually also helps to plan your meals in advance.
Choose someone with whom you feel good. Someone who awakens the positive in you. A person who has a positive influence on your self-image. I have such a best friend myself. Each time I spend time with her, I always go back home full of energy and positivity.
If you feel completely alone and lonely in your undertaking, it becomes harder to stay motivated. Share your goals with a close friend. She (or he) will support you in attaining them.
10. Go shopping
You don’t have to wait until a smaller size fits you in order to treat yourself to something nice. Go shopping and buy something in which you feel beautiful. Some clothing in which you find yourself pretty. And you know what? When you have lost the kilos, you can always have it taken in.
11. Be happy the way you are
Nowadays So much emphasis is placed everywhere on how we look. This makes it easy to lose perspective of the fact that appearance is only a (small) part of who you really are as a person.
People who really know you don’t think of you as a ‘just a body’ but as a person. They don’t notice some fat hanging under your arms or that your thighs were somewhat smaller in the past. They see you as YOU! And, if you allow me to just assume, they see a beautiful human being.
It may be time to start thinking this way about yourself as well. OK, so at the moment you are not exactly where you want to be physically. You may even have quite some way to go before you reach that target. But you are so much more than your appearance. From now on, focus on all your wonderful positive characteristics. Don’t forget that you are really much more that your pants size. In a nutshell (and I believe that this is the last time I say this today): LOVE YOURSELF AND LOVE YOUR BODY.
WHAT DOES SKINNYLOVE HAVE TO DO WITH LOVE YOUR BODY?
“Over the past year, I have spoken with tens, maybe more than 150, women and men about weight loss. Because people saw that I had lost quite some weight. 20 kilos within 1 year! If I have learned one thing from these many fascinating conversations, it’s the following.
The two greatest obstacles towards losing weight are:
- Fighting with hunger and/or, in a broader sense, with the desire to eat
- Becoming discouraged by negative thoughts or facing a temporary obstacle in losing weight
Coincidentally – or maybe it isn’t just a coincidence? – SkinnyLove gets these 2 challenges out of the way for you:
1. Hunger and/or the desire to overeat or snack in between meals: SkinnyLove increases your sense of satiety in a natural way. Among others, through the high presence of a mix of 100% natural dietary fibres. For me, SkinnyLove has become part of my daily habits. I drink it every single day. And my cravings for extra food, sweet stuff, or nibbling on salty snacks, has completely disappeared. Which means that I don’t have to ‘fight’ in order to not overindulge. It just happens by itself.
2. Because SkinnyLove also includes a bunch of other wholesome ingredients, such as, for example, pure ginger, turmeric and green matcha tea, it has additional wellness effects on your body, such as a cleansing detox effect, making the joints more flexible, boosting your resistance. I simply feel myself a whole lot more energized.”
Alain Indria, producer of SkinnyLove
LOVE YOUR BODY, TRY SKINNYLOVE NOW AND LOSE WEIGHT
SkinnyLove is a 100% natural product. You can read more about it on other pages of this website:
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SkinnyLove frequently asked questions
You can buy SkinnyLove in our own webshop. Because SkinnyLove really supports you incredibly well in your weight loss experience. More than 80% of the users have lost 4 kilos within 3 weeks, on average. Alain Indria himself has lost 20 kilos within 1 year himself thanks to SkinnyLove.
Actually it is very simple. The choice is yours to make now. Are you going to take the first step towards the Love Your Body SkinnyLove weight loss method? Do it now. Don’t lose time. Lose weight.