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14. Achieve your desired weight

Using a life coach to lose weight has been very successful, many times as a last resort method. If you have physical or psychological issues that require medical attention, we strongly recommend that you consult your physician, before you engage a coach to lose weight. However, if you feel that you have tried every diet and other weight loss program without success, you might want to consider using a life coach who specializes in weight loss.

How can talking to a life coach over the phone assist you to lose weight and keep it off, if the other more hands on methods were not successful? Your life coach will focus completely on you, and what motivates you. You will first discover your passions, priorities, and desires, spirituality, talents and self-imposed obstacles. Then you will discover IF losing weight is really what YOU want to do. And you will discover WHY (for what purpose) YOU want to lose weight. These will be YOUR own reasons, as opposed to losing weight to satisfy the “should’s” of others. Knowing WHY you want to lose weight for your own purposes, and how you prioritize your weight loss reasons in your overall life scheme of things will create a great relief.

You will put your weight loss into your own peace of mind perspective. This alone will improve your internal will and strength to take the weight loss actions you want and need on your own terms when no one else is around. This will also allow you to consider the possibility that losing weight does not rate as high on your own priority scale as you had previously thought. So you will be able to organize your weight loss goals and actions within your own personal internal priorities, to free you up with the guilt and self defeating false disappointment, because you did not meet the weight loss goals imposed on you by others. You will be comfortable in your own skin and devise the plan to reduce your weight because it suits you.

You and your coach will design a new lifestyle and program of living that will allow you to operate without guilt and the negative pull from the should’s of others. If you still place weight loss at a very high priority, your program will involve the reduction of the amount of calories you consume on a regular basis and will involve the increase of your physical exercise to burn off more calories. Your life coach will be your equal partner teammate who will keep you focused on the purpose you chose to lose weight, so that the weight loss becomes a part of you achieving your purpose.

The physical components of reducing weight by a human being are not complicated. In essence, people have to expend more energy (calories) through exercise than the quantity of calories they convert by processing the food they consume. Continuing this formula on a steady basis will cause the body to tap into the calorie reserves (fat) to provide the additional energy (calories) needed to provide fuel to the body during the exercise. The reduction of the calorie reserves will reduce the fat content and weight of the body. The basic prescription for weight loss is to exercise more and eat less.

For example you may decide that you really want to improve your tennis game, and that losing 50 pounds will boost your tennis prowess considerably. The real goal is to improve at tennis. With your coach, you will probably want to focus on playing more tennis (increasing exercise), and use the internal motivation to reduce your food intake, because you know it will fulfill your own personal priority to play better tennis.

Many people feel a need (normally imposed on them by others) to get into better shape. Getting into shape is not an easy thing to do. There are many different types of physical shape, based upon the various reasons for being in shape. For example, getting in shape to run a marathon is much different than getting in shape to play football. One requires reducing the body of unwanted fat and even muscle, to increase long-term cardiovascular endurance, without the need for short burst of speed. The other requires gaining high levels of muscular strength, muscular mass, and explosive power for very short busts of speed. What a difference! The person getting into shape has to know what he or she intends to do with their newfound physical shape to be sure it fits the end goal. This is the same process that people will want to use to lose weight. Losing weight for no other purpose than to lose weight has not proven to be a very effective process.

When you engage a life coach to achieve your desired weight you will:

Discover what your true passions, desires, and priorities are with respect to your weight situation.
Discover where weight loss fits into YOUR priorities of life.
Focus on accomplishing other more important goals (to you only) in life that have been impeding your ability to lose weight.
Discover why you really want to lose weight and what you will accomplish by losing the weight.
Determine how much weight you will want lose to fulfill your purposes, and if needed the time table to accomplish it.
Discover what other self imposed obstacles you have that have hindered your weight loss activities.
Organize a weight loss program that will fit your chosen lifestyle and purposes.
Follow your weight loss program step by step until you have achieved your desired weight loss.