How Poochies Can Lose Weight—No Need to Get Up—I'll Show You How...

Summary: How to switch out food cravings for exercise appetites using emotional re-programming, a sort of natural self-hypnosis. Walks readers through the process of creating new habits and breaking old ones so they can lose weight easily and keep it off for good.


Topics covered include: hypnosis, self-hypnosis, weight reduction, food, exercise, and general health.


Subject Matter: *** You're well aware of your weight! Something you don't know already is about to be revealed to you.

You fool yourself into thinking you understand the root cause of your obesity. You blame a lack of time and desire to exercise for your current state of affairs. You blame your lack of self-control and the fact that you have a soft spot for food. You are completely ignorant!

The truth about your weight gain will surprise you: you possess the mental acuity of a highly-trained athlete. Hold on for a second. Do you know how quickly athletes put on weight once they stop competing? That's crazy. Athletes have particularly "trainable" subconscious minds, which is also the reason why they bloat after being adept at sports. Learn to control your weight without dieting, misery, or an inhuman workout regimen if you grasp the technique.

Your Athletic Mind in Relation to Weight Loss

What you eat and how you live are the direct causes of weight growth, so let me mention that first. Here, I am not advocating any pseudo-science. But I'll show you why it's so illusive to control your diet and lifestyle. There hasn't been any actual effort on your part if you believe you can alter your behavior pattern by sheer force of will.

Certainly, you and I take great satisfaction in being mature, self-reliant individuals who can direct our own destinies. However, that is completely false. Actually, we hardly never do things that make us uncomfortable in the near term. I take it you disagree. Just to show who's boss, go ahead and take a cold shower. Fast for two days straight. Although it won't do any physical harm, it will irritate your body. And the truth is that our bodies typically have established response patterns in which we are enslaved. Apologies, but that's the unfortunate truth.

*** Mastering Your Thoughts Is the First Step to Mastering Your Body

Conditioning your mind is the same as conditioning your body. This has nothing to do with calculus and everything to do with your subconscious mind, the realm of long-forgotten memories, habits, and emotional responses. You are a trinity consisting of three parts: 1) a sluggish physical body, 2) a perceptive but unstable conscious mind, and 3) a slow but reliable subconscious that is responsible for the majority of your actions here.

As you may be aware, the subconscious is in charge of all athletic ability in addition to providing emotional responses that reinforce "good" behavior (like eating pizza). Every activity, from walking to typing, involves a continuous back-and-forth between deliberate brain signals and automatic body reactions. If you want to know how to shoot a basketball, for instance, you have to use your conscious mind to burn in a pattern, and then your subconscious will pick it up. One "no longer has to think about it" after they have fully perfected a move. You haven't "learned it" while you're still considering the details of a dance step. In other words, your unconscious mind is not fully developed yet. Your conscious mind just needs to shout out the command for your subconscious to carry it out once you have "learned" the skill.

To have a better grasp of your mental makeup, it might help to picture your thoughts as a chimpanzee perched atop an elephant. In contrast to your intelligent, quick-witted conscious mind, your subconscious is more akin to a clumsy, powerful elephant.

Chimpanzee (mind)
Please provide the following information: ----------------------
Quick, Brilliant, and Original
Forgetful
Imagines himself as the master

Elephant (inner self)
There is a missing comma in the compound.
Slow
Missing imagination
Amphibian learner with an extensive memory
Incredible reflexes (I know, the analogy isn't really accurate)
Typically at the helm


The Myth of Willpower

One benefit of this metaphor is that it enables me to highlight how ridiculous the idea of "willpower"—the conscious mind's attempt to push its way into the subconscious—really is. Think about it for a second: the chimpanzee wrestles the elephant. Where is the chimpanzee's "brute force"? Once the elephant sits on him, the game will end. By the way, that is the exact point at which any diet that relies solely on self-control fails. A potent aspect of your mind is the subconscious. Persuasion works better than force when trying to manage it.


Equipped with a Stick and a String, the Elephant

Because of their immense strength and submissive nature, Indonesians often employ elephants in construction jobs. After a long day of hauling hundreds of tons of wood and stone, the elephant retires to his straw bed for the night. Can you tell me the diameter of the rope needed to lasso an elephant? No more than a short length of string attached to a stake hammered into the earth.

The elephant was shackled with the same rod and string when he was a baby, too weak to free himself. He will never forget this and will always believe that the little stick and string were stronger. Consider it.

How good are you at what you do? Really, you don't know what you're doing. What limits you as an adult have nothing to do with your childhood experiences. Feelings from your youth bind you emotionally, just like an elephant. The majority of your adult personality is actually a defense mechanism that you developed as a fearful child. How much would you be willing to give if you could change who you are?

The good news is that you're a hybrid of elephant and chimpanzee! Ignore the fact that it might have sounded better. You have the power to retrain your entire mind through a tiny, intelligent, conscious part of your mind. You read that correctly; your conscious mind (the chimp) can rewrite and manage your whole mental experience.

Because of this talent, we humans are able to do incredible things and are the most adaptable species on the planet. Extreme sports and playing the concert piano are two examples of how this extraordinary human talent harnesses the power of the mind.

*** Alright, how is this relevant to my weight loss journey?

The true question, then, is "how to teach the subconscious" since, as you may recall, elephants learn and mimic patterns of behavior that are taught to them. Everyone needs to comprehend this one little trick. Gain control of your own thoughts by mastering this one essential technique. You will also comprehend the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of our educational system (although it is a topic for a separate essay).

Because we employ the improper vocabulary when we bark at our subconscious, it mostly disregards what we say. Emotions are the subliminal language of the mind. The significance of any action can be assessed by the subconscious mind by means of the emotional barometer. Take learning a new skill as an example. Your emotions are telling you things like "this sucks, I wish I were elsewhere, how much longer is this going to take?" and you're working hard to learn, but you're not loving the process. What this means is that it will take much longer as you are telling your subconscious to "ignore this activity, just move along, there's nothing to see here." In high school, how did you feel emotionally and how well did you learn?

You have complete command over your conscious emotions, even though it doesn't feel that way. Additionally, this is the most basic approach to teaching one's subconscious a new skill. Undoubtedly, it resembles a natural hypnosis technique. Emotional programming is similar to classical hypnosis, except that it uses the conscious mind to achieve the same results.

Here we go into the shadow side: recall that I said that have three sides? The physical, mental, and mystical realms? Your subconscious mind is always being programmed by your bodily processes, it turns out. When you bite into that thick, cheesy pizza slice because you're hungry, your body is basically saying, "this is good activity, very very good activity" on an emotional level. Years of such programming form subconscious patterns, and one of those patterns is a desire for food.

The mind may be completely reprogrammed, which is a relief.

You may immediately put what you've learned about the fundamentals of mind programming into practice. Your plan is to swap out appetites for food with cravings for physical activity. Instead of fighting years of food programming, you'll do some mental jujitsu and turn a want for food into a desire to exercise; it's a strong and entertaining strategy. Magic? I prefer it now.

Here's a simple plan: cut off sugary drinks and eat nothing for a while. We are not currently attempting to reduce weight, and this strategy is not a diet. Our goal is to elicit a response indicative of hunger. Do this now when you feel the first pangs of hunger:

Take a few deep breaths, relax, and let yourself feel the hunger; then, avoid thinking about eating. Visualize yourself performing sit-ups with joy instead. It's true; just picture yourself doing sit-ups when starving, and let a wave of happiness and contentment wash over you. After that, go back to your previous task.

Do this mental exercise again when you feel the next wave of hunger in a few minutes. For the next hour or so, maintain this and then grab a little food. Envision yourself lovingly performing sit-ups while you eat (particularly when you eat). Create mental associations between the following: joy, hunger, food, and sit-ups.

Thirst, Nourishment, Exercise, and Happiness? "He's completely insane."

Maybe, but all you're doing is associating a positive action with a tried-and-true pattern of reaction. You won't believe how this method can bring on an overwhelming desire to perform sit-ups. I am astounded by the mind.

Side note: when a few days have passed, give in to the temptation to do sit-ups. Make sure the emotional feedback loop continues as you work out by "letting" yourself enjoy it. Get a handle on your feelings or quit exercising immediately if you see that you aren't enjoying it. Subverting your efforts in pursuit of a few additional calories is not worth it.

Challenge yourself mentally rather than physically! The only gym that matters is the one in your head. Your mind will eventually override your body's resistance, and you'll find that you're actually enjoying it.

I tried this method for the first time a number of years ago. When I felt the need to do situps, I remembered that they would physically satisfy my appetite for about an hour. The "silly, happy, situp diet" seemed like the most bizarre eating regimen I had ever heard of. However, in reality, I had learned how to deliberately channel intense desires in order to achieve my goals. I highly recommend the self-hypnosis MP3 audio called "Appetite Zapper" if you are interested in delving more into this approach. Following its instructions will help you conquer your food cravings once and for all:

Download the Appetite Zapper MP3 from http://weight-loss.wendi.com.

The intellect is incredible, yet there is no instruction manual. We rarely learn to open the hood and discover its full potential because it usually runs effectively on autopilot. The majority of our desires, including prosperity, contentment, health, meaningful connections, and the sense of accomplishment, are within our grasp; the only thing preventing us from achieving them is, you guessed it, a stick and a thread.

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