Secret Weight Loss Tool

Would you like to know one of the most powerful tools you have available to you to lose weight?

The answer is your imagination!  As human beings we have the ability to imagine things in the future, to visualize how this will be in our lives and it’s not limited to images or visualizations, we have the ability to use our imagination for all our senses, the things we see, hear, feel, smell and taste!   You can imagine going to a Tropical Destination, you can imagine achieving a goal and unfortunately you can also imagine how chips, cakes, ice cream and other foods will taste before you ever eat them.

We usually don’t sit down and say to ourselves, “I think i’ll imagine what a piece of Chocolate Cake will taste like”, no it’s a bit more subtle than that, you see our imagination is also running on autopilot all the time too.  It’s one of the tools we use to make decisions, for example if you are trying to decide if you need to go to the bank, you will rapidly and mostly unconsciously run through a variety of scenarios that helps you decide if you need to go to the bank now… you might make pictures of getting a late notice for a bill, or hearing what your spouse will say that evening if you didn’t go to the bank etc…. when it comes to food and deciding whether or not to eat something, you go through a similar process but it’s usually more unconscious and very fast… it may go something like this….

You see a piece of Chocolate Cake, you immediately imagine what the cake will taste like, how it will feel in your mouth and the pleasure it will give you.  This process then comes to your conscious awareness as a CRAVING.  Then you may go through a second process of justifying why you should eat it… you imagine that you’ll go for walk later, you say to yourself you’ve been eating really well lately or just one piece won’t hurt…etc… then you probably eat the cake.

Here’s the good news. Once you become aware of the process, you have the ability to change or interrupt it!  The next time you see something and start imagining how it will taste and feel in your mouth, change the taste to something you don’t like or imagine the texture in your mouth is like grains of sand instead of smooth and silk, imagine the piece of cake is green instead of brown or imagine that when you cut into the cake with your fork a dead fly is in the cake… hmmm how appetizing is that?  Would that put you off eating the cake…. good, then you have used your imagination more effectively to interrupt the craving pattern and take more control!

Play with using you imagination to eliminate food cravings and you’ll be surprised at just how much power you have to direct your imagination in a more positive way.

Alan