"The Top 20 Barriers To
Weight Loss Success"

Here are 20 potential barriers that may right now be standing between you and weight loss success. There are others that aren't on this list. :-[

 

Any one of these barriers could be enough to keep you from winning at weight loss. Therefore you MUST be aware that they exist, and know how to spot them and how to deal with them.

Each of the barriers is followed by (in italics) a brief description of the best way to approach or deal with this barrier so that you can ultimately remove it from your path.

1. Limiting / self-defeating beliefs. (Success Factor #1) Identify your problem belief(s) and replace them.

2. A corrupted self-image. (Success Factor #2) Identify your problem beliefs. Then identify, accept, embrace all the things about you that are wonderful excellent, and admirable.

3. An impaired "DQ" [deservability quotient]. (Success Factor #3) Identify your problem beliefs, replace them with ones that recognize, affirm, and support your innate worthiness.

4. Looking for external solutions (Success Factor #4) Rid yourself forever of the notion that any force or factor outside yourself determines what you can be, do, or have.

5. Habitual inactivity, absence of movement or exercise. (Success Factor #5) Get moving!

6. Feeling depressed (Success Factor #6) Get a less narrow view of your circumstances, and focus on the "big picture." Watch your thoughts! Get professional help if depression persists.

7. Coming out / staying out of denial. Be willing to explore yourself fearlessly and then to embrace what you discover. All negativity is learned and can be unlearned.

8. Learned bad habits related to eating, thinking, etc. Ex: Programmed to clean your plate. Stop rewarding self-destructive behavior, reward ONLY supportive thoughts, words, actions. [Why are children's undesirable behaviors so persistent? Because we rewarded them with attention.]

9. A lifetime of exposure to misinformation and backward priorities. Be willing to seriously consider alternative solutions. Know what "trumps" what in life's creative order.

10. Your own inner resistance to change. (ego's attachment to the status quo) - Reward all victories and progress, no matter how trivial they may seem to your conscious mind. Again, NEVER reward what you don't want, especially with your emotional attention.

11. Fear (of being physically smaller, of being more attractive, of what other people think, have thought, or will think). Get beyond "The Tyranny Of OPO" (other people's opinions.).

12. Boredom - leading to eating just to be doing something. Do something else--anything else!

13. Compensatory eating. (Your life doesn't seem very sweet, so you eat something that is.- Your life feels empty so you eat to fill the void.- Your want more love and food is as close as you think you can get. What are you trying to compensate for? Very important to know. Then see how you can get that need met in a non-food-oriented way.

14. Your own impatience based on your unrealistic conscious expectations, which then creates stress which you respond to by eating. Patience! Let go the need for instant success or results.

15. Years of momentum in the wrong direction. Again, be patient! Real changes take a bit of time.

16. Self-defeating self-talk. Monitor it constantly, correct it instantly. Extremely important!

17. Control / authority issues - knee-jerk opposition to new / better information. Get over it...or stay stuck forever.

18. Integrity issues - failure to keep promises to self / others. Understand the true cost to yourself. Your own word must become as good as gold, or you can never trust yourself.

19. Honesty issues - fear of telling the truth to self / others. Get in touch w your courage. Do what needs to be done and say what needs to be said. You will definitely survive the truth.

20. Habitual negativity - being on "auto-pilot" to be negative. Recognize it as a personal pattern, spot it when it happens, replace it with something positive fast!
 

Any of the above sound familiar? If so, that's good news. You have to know what's broke before you can fix it!

 

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Yours in total health,

Dr. Frank