Want More Will Power to Lose Weight?

Here's an awesome tip from the book 'Personality Isn't Permanent' by Benjamin P. Hardy, which I might have misremembered. Here's my version:

1. Choose one unhealthy habit you REALLY wish you could stop doing. It could be not getting enough sleep or eating too much sugar - you know, the usual suspects, the ‘shoulds’.
2. Now, imagine yourself looking 10-20 years into the future. Visualize two versions of yourself: one where you successfully stopped doing the habit, and another where you didn't. How did your decision impact your life? Are there any regrets? What are you able or not able to do? What would each version say to you now? Hopefully one will say something like, 'Thank you, I have more energy than my younger friends, I can move well, and I look great!'

The example given in the book is of a very overweight man who identifies eating refined sugar as the habit he wants to give up.
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He sees two distinct directions his life could go in: one where his life resembles that of his overweight parents, who suffer from numerous health problems and live a very limited life physically, and the other is a life of being able to hike and travel freely and live life to the full.

He fully commits and decides that from now on, he is a person who never eats refined sugar. An all-or-nothing approach evidently eliminates the decision fatigue that can sabotage our efforts to change. He takes it a step further and integrates this decision into his identity, delving into the side effects of sugar and exploring other ways to become a healthy person.

You don’t have to take it to that extreme but it's food for thought. Which future self do you want? The one you will have if you keep doing x or the one you will have if you stop?

Before you go, I just wanted to let you know I'm opening up some spaces for one-on-one weight loss coaching. You can try it out with 7 days of coaching and accountability dedicated to helping you START taking concrete steps towards losing 10-15 pounds. Let me know if you’re interested or have any questions.

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Clara x ​