You need self-confidence to lose weight too!

This is how you can be the super sexy girl!

Self-confidence – that’s what’s missing from every weight loss method. More precisely, the belief that you are capable of losing weight. No diet can give you self-confidence. I’ve written an e-book about weight loss and put together a package about lifestyle changes, but neither of them contains that little bit of spice that makes the whole thing work at turbo speed. The spice is called belief. This is not religious belief, but rather self-confidence. If you believe that you can lose weight and achieve the figure you want, then you have this important spice. But if you are still struggling with unsuccessful diets to lose weight, this article may inspire you to increase your self-confidence. Read on!

The real secret to weight loss

More than 10 years have passed since I lost the extra pounds and achieved the figure I am completely satisfied with today. I am happy when I look in the mirror. I haven’t gained the weight back, even after all these years. I constantly hear from others that they gain even more weight after dieting. They can’t maintain their weight. I thought about how I managed to lose weight without having to struggle with it anymore. I described the method in my e-book Eating and Losing Weight, but I didn’t think about it in depth at the time, because it was only later, with the benefit of hindsight, that I understood what it was and what is still my secret today.

The secret: I believe in myself. I believe that I deserve a beautiful and healthy body. I believe that I deserve delicious food that nourishes my body. I love my body. I look at it with happiness. I believe that I can shape it into whatever I want it to be. That is the secret. Belief.

Why couldn’t I lose weight?

I think that previously, I wasn’t losing weight not only because I ate a lot. But also because I didn’t really believe that I could lose weight. I didn’t believe that I was capable of it. All my failed diets proved that I couldn’t lose weight. No one in my family was particularly thin either. Why would I believe that I could succeed?

But I did it! I researched the science behind weight loss (which I also wrote about in my e-book), and it convinced me that anyone can lose weight if they do it right. After a while, I was able to believe that losing weight is easy.

I lost 10 kilos and gained a lot of self-confidence. Today, I still smile when men turn to look at me, and I enjoy being able to choose from size S clothes instead of size L.

Not only did I believe that I was capable of losing weight, but also that I deserved to be slim. Today, I still believe that I deserve the best. I love my body and therefore nourish it with the best things. I no longer blame myself for not being able to lose weight, and I think you shouldn’t either. Love yourself and believe in yourself!

The role and dangers of faith

I have read a lot of research on the results of diets. For example, how giving up meat and eating vegan has a beneficial effect on the body. Then another study said this about the paleo diet, and a third about the ketogenic diet. Maybe they have something in common. I don’t deny that these studies have produced real results. At the same time, the results of the research may also depend on which company commissioned it. That’s scary!

Life is a complicated system. It’s not worth committing ourselves to one extreme. I think we need to stay somewhere in the middle. I wrote this down because I think it is very important what kind of research, book, theory, or lifestyle advice you believe in.

If you insist on believing that there is something wrong with you, sooner or later you will find a problem area. What will you focus on? This will determine what you will deal with. If you focus on meat-free or dairy-free diets, you will come across research, results, and supporting evidence that will convince your brain that this is good and everything else is harmful. You will believe it. And this belief can be very dangerous. Because you can also believe the opposite. What if you believed the opposite? That meat-free and dairy-free diets are unhealthy? Then your mind would switch to that, and you would come across research and advice that supports your belief, meaning you would find “data” that supports your belief and you would happily eat meat and drink dairy products without feeling guilty. Because you would believe that this is the healthiest option for you. So what you believe plays a very important role.

What are you focusing your attention on?

Do you believe that you can’t lose weight because everything you’ve encountered so far has confirmed this? Is everyone around you overweight? Did your mother tell you that you can’t succeed because everyone in your family struggles with excess weight? Does your partner discourage you from trying – because he has a beer belly that he’s never been able to lose? Do you see celebrities constantly losing and regaining weight? But does it really have to be this way?

If you focus on the fact that you won’t succeed, then you won’t. What if you tried focusing on the fact that you will succeed?

Self-confidence

Gaining self-confidence doesn’t happen overnight. Don’t expect to believe in yourself today and lose weight tomorrow. It’s a long-term process. Every day, you believe in yourself a little more, and slowly but surely, you develop a stable belief that you are good, you can do it, and you can achieve anything.

In order to change your beliefs, you first need to understand how your ingrained habits and beliefs were formed. Observe yourself, observe what you cling to and why. Sometimes you can’t do this alone and you need a professional to shed light on your self-limiting habits. But you can also ask yourself questions to think about. I asked myself the following:

• Why am I holding myself back with a body like this?
• What is it that I should have let go of long ago?
• What is my greatest fear?
• Why did I create this body for myself?
• Do I believe that I can change my body?
• What is preventing me from changing?
• Did I create this obstacle myself?

Just as you get rid of fattening foods when you are on a diet, i.e., you clear out your pantry and slowly stop buying fattening foods altogether, the same is true when it comes to developing faith. You have to look at what is harmful. You have to remove it and then be careful not to buy more of what is not good for you. Instead, fill your pantry with new and healthy things.

Take responsibility!

You are responsible for what you believe in. Whatever they try to force on you, you can decide whether to accept it or not. Take responsibility for what you believe to be true, because that determines your life.

The bad news? You are responsible for how you look right now.

The good news? The only person who can change that is you.

Be the girl who’s too sexy!

Have you seen the movie I Feel Pretty (2018)? If not, it’s worth watching.

The main character is Renee Bennett (Amy Schumer), who lacks self-confidence until she hits her head during a workout. When she regains consciousness, she believes she has become beautiful and irresistible – even though nothing about her has actually changed. However, this newfound confidence completely transforms her life and opens up opportunities she previously thought were unimaginable.

Watch the movie tonight and learn from it!

I believe that weight loss is also a mental challenge. And I believe you can do it too!