Achieving Permanent Healthy Weight Loss: Your Self-Image is the Key

Healthy weight loss success will not last unless you change your self-image, and this is why 95% of people who lose weight gain it right back. There’s a lot of good advice on the internet and in book stores about how to raise your metabolism and how to lose weight the healthy way, and still people all over the nation lose weight only to gain it back again. This is because many of these books don’t include the essential steps required to change a person’s self-image. How important is the self-image when it comes to achieving lasting weight loss results?

In this article, we’ll be talking about how your self-image makes or breaks your ability to achieve healthy weight loss and to keep the results which you have achieved...

Your Self-Image Sets the Standard

People’s consistent actions aren’t determined by how talented they are or how motivated they are. Instead, their consistent actions are determined by their self-image. Do you know anyone who is attractive but who doesn’t believe it? Most likely, they don’t act beautiful. The same is true with talent and with everything else that people possess. A person’s self image determines what character traits and skills they consider to be a part of their identity and these are the character traits and skills that a person uses in their everyday life.

Sure, you can force yourself to behave in a way which is inconsistent with your self-image, but you can only keep this up for so long. Eventually, your self-image will subconsciously motivate you to start acting in a way which is consistent with the way you see yourself. This is how someone can be “motivated” to live healthy and keep it up for a while, only to give up and go back to their old habits. This is how someone can receive a raise or a promotion, and still be living paycheck to paycheck.

Attempting to force actions which aren’t consistent with your self-image is like holding your breath under water. You can do it for a certain amount of time by sheer force of willpower, but eventually your body will force you to come to the surface...and when you do you’ll be gasping for air. This is similar to how people go on crash diets, but start eating like crazy when they get off the diet...and of course you know what happens when.

So if you want to achieve healthy and lasting weight loss, you must strengthen your self-image and make it consistent with the actions and habits of a healthy lifestyle. This is the missing link when it comes to achieving healthy weight loss.