Do you have a New Year’s resolution to lose weight?

Are you setting goals to eat better, exercise more, and get your mindset right in 2013?

Then you’ll love this!

To help you kick-start those New Year’s resolutions and weight-loss goals, we now have reduced prices on 52 Weight Loss Missions for a limited time.

I wrote 52 Weight Loss Missions for people like me – people who love food and aren’t perfect, but who want to look and feel great.

It’s all about the mindset tricks that help you do the things you need to do to lose weight, but without willpower or self-loathing.

Right now 52 Weight Loss Missions is only:

• $29 for the Action Pack (reduced from $79)
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That’s ridiculous value! But it’s only for a limited time.

52 Weight Loss Missions is all about the mindset tricks
that help you do the things you need to do to lose weight,
but without willpower or self-loathing.  

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Maybe you do.

Maybe your mind gets the better of you, despite your good intentions.

Here are 4 ways your thinking may be sabotaging your weight-loss goal.

1. Your Motivation Is Fake

If your reasons for losing weight don’t excite and inspire you, then it’s no wonder they’re easily displaced by the sight of a piece of pie.

Weight loss is hard. You need to work out and eat wisely, at least part of the time. If deep down you only half-care, then your efforts will be half-hearted, and your results will be disappointing.

If reasons like I want to be healthier or My doctor/spouse/mother says I should aren’t cutting it for you, then find reasons that do.

Keep digging till you feel a thrill of excitement. That’s what will power you all the way to success.

If deep down you only half-care, then your efforts will be half-hearted, and your results will be disappointing.

52 Weight Loss Missions customers read more: Unlock Your True Weight-Loss Motivation.

 2. You Eat Mindlessly

How often have you got to the end of a meal, giant bucket of popcorn, or double-layered box of chocolates and wondered where the hell it went?

Mindless eating makes it easy to eat when we’re not hungry, and to overeat beyond satiety when we are.

To avoid feeling deprived and short-circuiting our motivation, we should allow ourselves treats, and enjoy them when we do.

The trouble with mindless eating is that we spend the calories, but we don’t get to enjoy the pleasure. It’s a giant rip-off.

To stop mindless eating, we need to focus on the cues that lead us to eat, so we can avoid eating when we’re not hungry.

And we need to manage our portion sizes so we don’t inadvertently overeat, just because it’s there.

That way, when we do choose to spend our calories on something yummy, we enjoy every bite.

The trouble with mindless eating is that we spend the calories, but we don’t get to enjoy the pleasure. It’s a giant rip-off.

52 Weight Loss Missions customers read more: Stop Overeating and Address Emotional Eating I and Address Emotional Eating II.

3. You’re In Denial

If your weight-loss results are elusive, you might need to audit your beliefs.

Think you can lose weight by exercising on the ocassional days you ‘can fit it in’? By choosing diet soda with your cheese-stuffed-crust pepperoni pizza?

Losing weight and keeping it off takes attention, education, energy, time, persistence, and a willingness to take action, among other things.

If you believe you can do it without making these commitments, you’re kidding yourself.

And staying fat.

Losing weight and keeping it off takes attention, education, energy, time, persistence, and a willingness to take action, among other things.

52 Weight Loss Missions customers read more: Take A Weight-Loss Reality-Check.

4. You Think, All-Or-Nothing

How many times have you given in to a binge, or skipped an exercise session, and let it send you off the rails?

You figure, Well, I’ve already eaten this donut, might as well eat those other eleven too. Or, I skipped the gym today, might as well write off the rest of the week. Dude, it’s Tuesday.

The thing is, no regular person has ever stuck perfectly to a diet or exercise program.

Yet many regular people succeed at losing weight. (I did.)

That means people lose weight without being perfect. (I’m not.)

So instead of letting lapses get the better of you, a better approach is to focus on doing well most of the time, and being prepared for occasional failures as part of the process.

Because losing weight doesn’t depend on avoiding lapses, which are inevitable. It depends on how you deal with them. 

No regular person has ever stuck perfectly to a diet or exercise program. Yet many regular people succeed at losing weight. That means people lose weight without being perfect.

52 Weight Loss Missions customers read more: Kick The Perfectionism Habit

Need To Tweak Your Mind?

Do any of these strike a chord for you?

Do you need to adjust your thinking?

What will you do differently?

I recently connected with another of our inspiring community members, Cathi. Cathi is a top commenter on our 52 Weight Loss Missions members’ forum and has also participated in the 30-Day Organize-athon.

Cathi’s Story

Kylie: I love reading your check-ins for the 52 Weight Loss Missions program. How would you say the program has helped you?

Cathi: It has helped add some humor to trying to eat healthier and be more active during the day. Also, reading other people’s struggles made it seem more doable.

Kylie: How is life different for you now?

Cathi: I now miss exercise when I don’t do it – which is not often. I can tell when I don’t eat as well as I should – I feel worse. Plus, my inner voice kicks in.

Reading other people’s struggles made it seem more doable.

What’s Your Story?

Being accountable and taking control of bad eating habits has empowered Cathi to maintain a healthy mind and body.

Have you found success with 52 Weight Loss Missions?

To share your story, email me. You could be our next inspiring success story!

Kylie

It’s a very hot day here in Sydney.

I feel stressed by all the tasks on my to-do list.

There are no classes on that I like, so I’d have to do my own thing. Which I don’t feel like.

I’m not in the mood.

Sigh.

However, it’s Christmas Party season, and I have some very cute dresses to wear.

And ultimately, this is why I want to be slim – to wear cute clothes.

It may not be a good weight-loss reason, according to other people.

But it’s my true weight-loss reason. The one that keeps me motivated on days when the reasons I should work out – it’s good for me – aren’t enough to combat the excuses.

Days like today.

So I don’t feel like it, but I’m going.

Join me?

If you’ve recently lost weight – whether through my 52 Weight Loss Missions program, Kindle e-book, or iPad app, or some other way – then you probably now have some too-large clothes in your closet.

What a great problem to have!

So then – what do you do with those ‘fat’ clothes? Keep them, just in case?

What you do with the larger sizes in your wardrobe can affect the rest of your weight-loss journey or weight-loss maintenance.

If you use my 52 Weight Loss Missions system then you know what I suggest: As you lose weight,  close the door behind you and flick the fat clothes. Re-set your mindset and your closet for a skinnier you.

If you have a collection of different sizes in your closet, then why not clear them out and start the new year with a streamlined wardrobe – as well as a streamlined you.

 Re-set your mindset and your closet for a skinnier you. 

If you’d like help, then come and join my BRAND NEW program - 14 Days To An Organized Closet: Clear Closet Clutter Fast.

Together we’ll follow simple, step-by-step instructions to create your perfect wardrobe - decluttered, streamlined, oh-so-organized.

I’ll also help you unlock the mental and emotional chains that keep you holding on to clothes you don’t wear or need. Book your spot now!

I’ll also help you unlock the mental and emotional chains that keep you holding on to clothes you don’t wear or need. 

Whether you do my 14 Days To An Organized Closet program or bag up your baggy clothes yourself, please consider getting too-large clothes out of your wardrobe.

Those clothes are your past.

Let’s focus on the future.

Is the bathroom scale a helpful gauge of your progress? Or an instrument of mental torture?

For many people trying to lose weight, it’s the latter.

A disappointing number on the scale can undo your day, your diet, your determination to exercise and eat well.

So it’s worth looking at your attitude before you leap on the scale.

Weight-Loss Friendly Weighing

It’s fine to weigh yourself if:

• You’re at your goal weight and you simply want to check that you’re staying within a healthy weight zone
• You weigh yourself no more than once a week to chart long-term progress.

If neither of these apply, then weighing yourself can be psychologically counter-productive. I suggest you only do it if:

• You genuinely see the numbers on the scale purely as information, not as an excuse to beat yourself up
• You genuinely understand that weight loss/gain is not necessarily fat loss/gain, and can also reflect muscle, water, and other factors
• You genuinely realize that fluctuations are to be expected, and that long-term trend is what matters.

If you don’t have this mind-set (and let’s be honest, few of us do), then the numbers on the scale can be your foe, not your friend.

Non-Weight Weight-Loss Goals

For most of us then, daily weigh-ins are too psychologically fraught to be a good idea.

So what’s the alternative?

In my 52 Weight Loss Missions program (see the weight-loss Missions here) I recommend measuring your progress against a non-weight goal, such as fitting into a favorite pair of jeans. You’ll still be able to notice improvement and enjoy your progress, but without the emotional roller-coaster of the number of the scale.

What do you think?

Do you do the daily weigh-in?

Does it work for you?

I’d like to tell you it’s something deep and meaningful, like maybe What do you think happens after death?

But the truth is, the number one question I get asked is How do you eat so much and stay thin?

Ignoring the fact that people make some rather disparaging observations about the size of my appetite, I can understand why they’re surprised. I’m pretty slim (I’ve included a picture in case you want to check for yourself) and I eat. a. lot.

The long answer (about 50,000 words long) is that after years of frustration, research, and trial and error, I’ve developed my own diet, exercise, and mindset strategies for weight loss.

But here’s a short answer.

You Can Be A Bit Slack About Diet Or Exercise. But Not Both.

I realized pretty quickly that I was never gonna be the girl who could follow conventional diet advice. Swap that afternoon chocolate bar for a carrot? Um, are you INSANE? Who writes this stuff?

But I could be the girl who exercised regularly. Although I had grown up hating exercise, I could find ways to make it work. I could see the gym as the way to pay for my chocolate habit.

On the other side of the weight-loss coin, I know slim people who struggle more with exercise. But they work harder to make peace with emotional eating. Or they put more effort into meal planning and weight-loss-friendly recipes.

You can be soft on yourself in one area if you’re prepared to be hard on yourself in another.

Compared to the average slim person, you can eat more or exercise less. But not both.

That’s my experience.

What’s yours?

I recently talked with Danielle about her inspiring weight-loss success. Here’s what she had to say…

Danielle’s Story

I had lost about 20 pounds a few times in the earlier years, but something in me happened when I reached 79 kg in November. It triggered something. I knew at that time that I had to change quite a few things in my life if I wanted to be around to see my grand kids.

52 Weight Loss Missions helped me identify how my bad habits were preventing weight loss.

52 Weight Loss Missions helped me identify how my bad habits were preventing weight loss.

For example, I like to bake for my family and friends so sweets were a big part of my diet. I would eat the dough before it got to the oven. Instead I moved to action. I took control and made a combination of changes to my life.

Firstly I joined a gym and started a personal training program. I started going three times a week but I didn’t see much change so I increased my sessions to 6-7 days a week. I also started counting my calories. I started noticing changes as early as two weeks.

The turning point came in April, when I did the 30-Day Weight-Loss-a-thon and it helped me tremendously.
I went from a size 16 to a size 8P in pants and from XL to medium in shirts.

When the snow melted in late march, I started walking 1-3 hours a day and the inches and pounds just came off. It was so encouraging that I would find any excuses to go walking.

The turning point came in April, when I did the 30-Day Weight-Loss-athon (included as part of 52 Weight Loss Missions Action Pack) and it helped me tremendously. I went from a size 16 to a size 8P in pants and from XL to medium in shirts.

Life is so different now! I eat healthy, I walk 75 minutes every morning and I feel so alive. I am happy and more confident. My whole weight loss is 40 pounds lost, 20 inches off my body and a decrease of about 6% body fat. I feel more alive than I have ever felt in a long time.

Thank you 52 Weight Loss Missions.  Your program works

What’s Your Story?

Thank you Danielle for sharing your story!

How about you – have you found success with 52 Weight Loss Missions?  I’d love to know more!

To share your story and inspire others, email me today.

Till next time,

Kylie

For years I had a thin person inside me, struggling to get out. I constantly sedated her, which had its rewards.

But eventually I let her emerge, a process I share in my 52 Weight Loss Missions program.

Letting her out meant finding ways to stop overeating.

Do you have a thin person inside you, struggling to get out?

What if you stopped sedating your thin self, today?

I raised my bicep and shoulder weights in my weights class, and I began doing cycling and combat-style classes to replace my treadmill walks.

The lessons I’ve learned from these changes have surprised me. And I’ve realized that they apply outside the gym, too.

Here are the 3 life lessons I’ve learned…

1. When You’re A Newbie You Look Like A Goose

My first combat class was an exercise in humiliation. The choreography was challenging, the moves were alien, and the pace was hard.

The instructor looked like she was actually fighting. I looked like I might, at any moment, pirouette. I felt lost and looked silly.

But now, several weeks later, I feel more confident and I absolutely love it.

From everyone I’ve talked to – including the instructor – that’s how it is for everyone.

Life Lesson

To start something completely new, you have to go through the feeling-foolish stage. It’s part of the journey.

This applies to exercise, learning a musical instrument, dancing, making friends, learning a new skill, starting a new job – anything you haven’t done before.

Expect to go through the I-feel-foolish stage. Embrace the gooseness. It’s the only path there is.

2. Being Tired Doesn’t Mean You’re Doing Your Best

After using the same weights for many months, I increased my bicep and shoulder weights in my weights class. I’d always felt tired after the class, so I expected this to be a major adjustment.

Turns out it wasn’t.

I still feel just as tired after the class, but now I’m using heavier weights and gaining more fitness benefits.

You know what surprised me most? Being tired didn’t mean I was doing my best. I was capable of more. I’d never have known that if I hadn’t tried.

Life Lesson

Just because you feel you’re making an effort, it doesn’t mean you can’t do more.

Could you be more productive at work, more focused in your business, kinder to your family, warmer to your friends, tidier in your home, more disciplined with your money, smarter about your appearance?

In what life area can you ‘raise your weights’?

You may be capable of more, if you try.

3. Thinking About Lovely Legs Eases The Pain

I also took up cycling classes, which I find ridiculously hard. But with summer approaching I thought they’d be a good choice for getting nice, toned legs.

Here’s what I noticed.

When I thought about how hard the class was, how much I was working, how desperately I longed to lie in a fetal position in the corner, I found it a huge struggle to keep going.

But when I thought about my nice toned legs in a pair of spunky shorts, pushing those pedals got easier.

Life Lesson

To have the things we want in life, we often have to pay a price. It might be hard work, exercise, healthy eating, patience, persistence, optimism or something else.

The more we focus on the struggle or sacrifice, the more energy we lose to those thoughts.

Instead, focus on the benefits you want – vitality, an attractive body, achievement, good relationships.

You’ll find you gain energy to help you rise to your challenges.

The more we focus on the struggle or sacrifice,
the more energy we lose to those thoughts.

Your Life Lessons

What life lessons have you learned from your diet, exercise or weight-loss journey?

Please share!

*This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared in the Get Organized Wizard newsletter.
So this actually happened a while ago. But the lessons are timeless, don’t you think?