I have a different perspective about weight loss than the media, the weight loss stores and all the hype in our culture. There's got to be a paradigm shift in one's mind to think this way. What if we started thinking in terms of decades, in years, not in days, weeks or months? I know that my body will transform in the next year and in the next decade one way or another. It will either slowly get stronger or slowly get weaker. All the little things are what make up how we look and feel each passing year and decade. Think about it and it really does make sense. The reason a person looks and feels the way they do today is a result of their habits over the past year.
Researchers have found that visualization is key. If we can envision and believe that we will be a healthier person we will start making changes. So believing in the change is key. We have to first realize that the change is worth the end result. If we don't completely buy into the end result we won't make the change. Visualizing yourself being the healthiest, fittest and physically strong in the next year and decade is the root concept.
What I'm not a fan of at all is extreme dieting that looks like starvation, extreme diets or lots of regimen that we can't follow long term. Sure it might get us from point A to point B quickly. But then point C is ugly. And what is point C? Answer: worse than we were at in point A because all the extreme dieting only gave us a short term answer. We didn't transform, we didn't truly change. The snail route completely revolves around transformation. And isn't transformation what will get us long term success?
So we have this knowledge that every year we get older, every decade that passes us by, our metabolism slows and our body ages. It can become weak, decondition and aged. If we took that information and embraced it with open arms and an open mind we'd get somewhere as a society. Instead we play the insanity game. We keep going around the crazy circle of losing weight quickly only to put it back on quicker. We skip the TRANSFORMATION process because we don't want to face it. We don't want to face that we have issues that have to be addressed. The key here is continuing to refine. It's not big flashy changes but small polishing to slowly create a big change.