If You Think That You Are Fat…. Then You Are Right
How Mindset Affects Your Fat Levels
“So as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7 King James Bible), is a very powerful statement dealing with the mind, and how we become our thoughts. At a very basic level, our thinking affects our feelings and emotions. How we feel affects how actions, and how we act, behave or what we do on a continuous basis becomes a habit. A habit is a set of memorized emotions in the subconscious mind that you’ve “embodied”, like it is a part of you- has become a part of who you are, your personality. So when you say, “I am shy”, or I am impatient, or I am depressed, you are saying that you have practiced saying this over and over so much, that your thinking and feeling of those thoughts have become automatic responses within you!
When it comes to losing body fat in order to have a lean, fit body, you must make lifestyle changes, especially dealing you’re your meals and your exercise regime! You can start a diet, whatever the latest greatest one is, and do it for a while, but if you’re thinking and feeling has not changed where diet and exercise is concerned, no matter how much weight you have lost, you will gain every pound back and then some, because you will go back to those old familiar feelings and behaviors that are in your subconscious mind. You must believe that you are healthy and fit. Your mind set has to be one that thinks that you are burning fat easily and effectively, until it dominates your thinking, in order for it to sink down into your subconscious mind, which is 95 percent of your mind. Your conscious mind is only 5 percent.
This is why change is so difficult. Consciously, you want to burn fat and transform into a fit lean body. You know that you need to change your eating habits, and consistently exercise. For example, you set out to lose weight and eat healthy using the Keto diet. Consciously, you know what to do, but deep down inside, you don’t truly believe that you can completely change your eating habits. You believe that everyone wasn’t meant to be lean and fit, and you are one of those individuals, because every time you lose weight, you always gain it back. These subvocal thoughts get stronger and stronger especially when you make more progress. This is your subconscious mind telling you what you really believe about yourself. Again, the subconscious runs 95 percent of what goes on in the mind, so whatever is in the subconscious will manifest itself. That’s how you can say you want to desperately lose weight, to the point of tears in your eyes, and still not change because the automatic program in your mind says, “I am fat, and I will always be fat”.
I remember when I first started my weight loss journey 23 years ago. I would lose 20 pounds, then gain it all back within 3–6 months, every time. I would give myself a 12 week challenge, reach my goal, then go back to telling myself it is okay to eat a little bit of chocolate Godiva Cheese cake, and some Doritos over there, things that I had stayed away from completely in order to lose the weight. Within 3 months, the same amount of time it took for me to lose it, it came back on. Finally, I had to come to the realization that in order for me to lose pounds of bodyfat, and keep it off, I must make a true lifestyle change. In order to make a true lifestyle change, I must change the way I think. Instead of thinking, I need to go on a diet because I am fat, I need to think, “I am lean and fit”, or “I am creating a lean and fit body daily.” As soon as I started believing that I am lean and fit, my feelings and started lining up with that belief. I started feeling confident, strong, and attractive. I even cut out a picture of a fit athlete, with sculpted six-pack abs, and removed his head, and put it on my vision board so that every time a looked at it, I would imagine my face on that body. Those were my abs. After 17 weeks of thinking like a fit lean person with six pack abs, I lost 48 pounds and became that fit, lean, confident, attractive person that I desired.
So three ways in order to change the way you think in order to decrease your bodyfat levels are:
1. Remember all change begins with your thinking. Every action begins with a thought. So in order to act and behave healthy, you must think healthy. In order to become lean, you must think, “I am lean”.
2. Where your focus goes, energy flows. What you focus on also becomes your dominate thoughts, and what you think about the most, will drop down into the subconscious mind. So set time in your day, maybe first thing in the morning and at night before bed, visualize yourself with a lean, fit body. Imagine what it would be like to have an exceptionally good body fat percentage. What would you look like? How would you feel? You will eventually start feeling the way you have imagined and visualized!
3. Research books, magazines, and other materials that discuss healthy eating and exercise topics. Spend 30 minutes daily reading and studying this material in order to absorb this into your mind. Read inspirational stories of people that transformed their bodies, and significantly reduced their bodyfat. Search for clues that reveals their mindset. Adopt it. Make it your own. Again, the more you flood your mind with what you want, burn bodyfat, and create a lean, fit body, the more it will sink deep into the subconscious mind, where true change occurs.
So if you think you are fat…you are right, but also if you think that you are a lean, fat burning machine, then you are right also!
Remember, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!”
Kevin Bailey
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Kevin Bailey is a Health and Wellness Coach, Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Medical Exercise Specialist/Post Rehabilitation Specialist, and Motivational Speaker.
