Self-discipline And Successful Weight Loss
If you want to achieve lasting success in anything, but particularly something like permanent weight loss, your efforts will be greatly helped if you have self-discipline.
The best definition of self-discipline is ‘positive action’ – something to feel good about”. You’ve demonstrated self-discipline if you have decided to join a weight loss program, and you should be feeling good about that. Self-discipline is a form of self-control which we exercise consciously. Self-discipline is very important in our spiritual, emotional and spiritual life because it gives us the power, and the focus, to achieve what we want to achieve.
Some of the self-discipline you’ve imposed on yourself in the past few weeks has been quite difficult. Saying ‘no’ to yourself is not easy. Denying yourself the gratification of eating something which is utterly delicious (but swarming in fats and sugars) is not easy, but the pay-off is huge. You feel really good when you’re able to resist temptation.
The temptation to find an excuse for not taking exercise, and not keeping to your personal exercise programme, has probably crossed your mind. When you have the self-discipline to cast out the demons that are trying to persuade you to be weak, the feeling is twice as good.
Napoleon Hill, author of several personal success books, put self-discipline this way: “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you can’t control what you think, you cannot control what you do. Simply, self-discipline ensures you think first and act afterwards”.
The importance of mastering your thinking process cannot be over stated. . When you’ve achieved the mastery of your thinking process – and you will – you’ll certainly have something to feel good about.
Maintaining permanent weight loss takes self-discipline too. It is all too easy to slip back into your old ways. You have to retain your focus. The personal profit from doing so can be enormous, so keep at it!
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