Claiming Responsibility for Your Successes

When you realize that your weight loss successes are dependent upon your thinking and ultimately your thoughts pushing you toward positive action, you’ll then realize that your failures are also dependent upon your thinking and negative thoughts regarding your weight loss efforts and goals. The first step to weight loss success is realizing that being overweight is a result of your eating habits and/or lack of consistent exercise. Secondly, you must embrace the understanding that while genetics play a small role in weight control, your family background is not the reason you remain over weight. Thirdly, while there are organizations and programs that are helpful in assisting individuals with the weight loss process, you must understand no one outside yourself, nor any special diet or program is responsible for your weight loss/health and fitness success or failure. Lastly, you must realize your success is not based upon some stroke of luck, nor is being overweight “just your fate in life” and that you have no control over it. If you continue to blame your weight on someone or something other than yourself you will always have difficulty in achieving permanent weight loss success. Plan to take responsibility for both your successes and failures related to achieving permanent weight loss and an improved level of health and fitness.

Remember: Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best of you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.
~ Win Borden