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The Biggest Challenge In Getting Healthy is Deciding You Are READY To Change

Why You are not READY to Change

Deciding you are READY to do anything is ALWAYS the first step. When you are not ready and fully committed to the decision, it usually never happens as you envision. When you are not committed to EVERYTHING it will take to make your transformation a reality, you are not ready to change.Instead, you continue to operate in your negative self-talk and excuses. 

 

Get READY

Thankfully, you CAN address this issue and go on to be successful. There are stages of readiness that can identify where you are, why you are there and how to proceed through them. These are the five stages we use:

       Pre-contemplation

      Contemplation

      Preparation

      Action

      Maintenance

 

 

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The Secrets Of Self-Confidence And Why Looks Have Nothing To Do With It

Self-What?

 Self-efficacy is the self-confidence you have in yourself to change your negative behaviors and be successful at making those changes in your daily life. A correlation was found between making positive behavior changes regarding your health and how you perceive yourself. Confidence affects decisions that you make, the effort that you put into goals, how you interpret barriers and how determined you are to succeed when faced with adversity.  When you think about it, your confidence IN completing a goal might be just as or more important than really knowing HOWto complete the goal. 

 Behaviors and Feelings that ZAP Self-Confidence

       Failure

      Negative Self-Talk

      Doubt

      Inconsistency

      Fear

      Insecurity

      Lack of Trust

 

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How I Was Able To Get Consistent After 2 Weeks Into My Wellness Plan

Let’s get REAL

We all have had that moment when you can’t fit into your favorite jeans or you realize that EVERYTHING is tighter than it used to be. So what do we do? We decide that RIGHT NOW I am going to make some changes and lose this weight!  We get so pissed off that NOTHING will ruin the determination to reach our goal.

For some, this feeling may last for a while and they lose some of the weight and then start to get off track with their plan that was achieving the results, get frustrated that the weight loss has stopped and quit. 

For others the feeling is short lived and you find yourself reasoning with why it’s all right to give up and stay the way you are. 

 

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