WILLPOWER TO LOSE WEIGHT

It can be frustrating demoralising and depressing to say the least trying to shed those excess kilos.

One of the main reasons people fail is that they rely too much on WILLPOWER.

In a survey 27 of people attributed their lack of willpower as being the most significant barrier to make change.

Yes there is a willpower centre in the brain, research has found it and it is all of 15 minutes.

People blame a faulty willpower for their imperfect choices in behaviour that keeps them stuck in the FAT ZONE.

This is because willpower is the ability to resist short term temptation in order to meet long term goals.

And this just isn’t about weight; it affects every area of your life.

HERE IS HOW WILLPOWER WORKS:
As you go through the day Willpower depletes with decision making and stress so here is what willpower looks like…

• You wake up with your 15 minutes of WILLPOWER - think of it as a fuel tank less than a quarter full.
• So here you are on a diet, trying to be good…
• You have to get yourself to work, maybe you are running late, traffic is bad, stress is building and your willpower has taken a hit.
• On getting into work you are trying to deal with emails, field calls and suddenly there is a challenge and problem that stresses you out even more.
• You have to make some decisions about what to do and that it is another stress (more fuel gone).
• You can’t think straight - creating more stress (your warning willpower light is on – you’ve nearly run out!!)
• By the time you get to lunch time, guess what?
• You have no willpower left, you have emptied the tank not a drop is left.
• You say “Just give me anything! Give me what you have got, I’ll eat anything, I don’t care, I need comfort, I need that Sausage Roll and Sally Lung and Chocolate……”
• Then when you eat those things you realise that you have just done a bad thing and now you feel stressed even more and possibly feel ‘guilty’.
• You are beating yourself up, reducing any willpower that may have refilled, you couldn’t begin to even ignite a spark of willpower - it’s gone.
• You feel fed up decide losing weight is failing, this means you are failing, you feel bad so have another sausage roll or chocolate bar because you may as well right?

ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT ABOUT WILLPOWER
The lack of willpower affects every aspect of your life. Life failures are due to the lack of self-discipline. Studies have uncovered similar willpower patterns, that create failure; and you fail because you lack willpower.

For example a study showed that students who had a greater self-control score attained much higher grades average.  They also had higher self-esteem, they didn’t binge eat, did not overdo alcohol and they had better relationships.

The way willpower can be strengthened is by practice.

Would you like to have greater willpower? Be more confident, have greater self-esteem, resist in the face of temptation?

You can.
There are 3 components in a study Roy Beaumeister, PhD a psychologist in Florida State University describes them as follows:

1. Establish motivation for change and a BIG enough why
   
2. Monitor your behaviours towards that goal; be mindful
   
3. Exercise replenishing Willpower you need and begin to exercise the ways in which you win and are able to stick to new habits and behaviours that will support you.

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