Break the Weight Loss Barrier

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Break the Weight Loss Barrier

• Adopting A Winning Attitude
• Barry Simon MD
• Psychiatrist,
• Leadership Centre for Diabetes, Mount Sinai
• Program Director of Mindful Living

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Mindful Living Group Program

• 1989 eat this, do this
• 1991 - The Winning Weigh its all about a
  success formula
• 1995 - Its your triggers
• 1997 Break the Weight Loss Barrier
• 1995-2004- The Power of the Group
• 2003- When the student is ready

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My purpose

• If you give a man a fish,
• you feed him for a day,
• If you teach him how to fish,
• You feed him for a lifetime

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What evidence supports the journey I have
witnessed?
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Supportive Research

• National Weight Control Registry 1994 lost 30
  pounds for at least a year.
• Multiple studies on successful weight management
  interviews and assessment tools
• Perri (1993)
• Thin For Life by Anne Fletcher MS RD

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Successful Weight Management (Perri)

• Professional Support
• Peer Support
• Program for eating
• Program for movement
• Post program follow up
• Results At 2 years, most people had kept off,
  more than half the weight they lost

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Impact of Weight Loss ( National Weight Registry)

• Improved quality of life
• Improved mood
• Improved confidence
• Improved energy and physical mobility
• Improved physical health
• fewer than 2 reported a worsening in any of
  those areas

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You dont pay the price of losing weight !

• You enjoy the rewards and benefits in your life !
  

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It takes Great Coaching to adopt A Winning
Attitude !

• Learn to Coach Yourself Effectively, first !
• Find coaches who want you to become the expert !

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Coaching is.

• Awakening Possibility
• Becoming Aware of REAL Barriers
• Awakening Your Resources
• Creating Options
• Decisively Taking Action
• Learning, Learning, Learning

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Coaching Works if.

• .It recognizes many selves in each of us
  because.

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Healthy Eating effects your self soothing strategy

• Dieting is taking away my only real friend
• my refuge
• my break from the world
• how to ease my anger and resentment
• my only solace from never getting the prize in
  life

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Coaching Works if.

• . It empowers your desire to be healthy and it
  shifts your limiting beliefs about succeeding !

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How are human beings designed?

• If you think you can, you can
• If you think you cant, you cant.
• Henry Ford

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Your View of Your Food Diary on a hard day

• Identity - I am a failure .
• Belief or values- Nothing can help me
• Theyll see me for who I really am
• Capabilities I cant fill this out or Ill fill
  out a little of it
• Behaviors no options

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Your View of Your Food Diary on a good day

• Identity - I am getting somewhere Belief or
  values- Writing stuff down really helps
• Capabilities Filling this out takes no time at
  all
• Behaviors It really is not that tough to do
• Environment- effects what I do in situations

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Coaching Works if.

• . It teaches you how to coach yourself

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The Art of Positive Self Coaching

• As a man thinketh in his heart,
• So is he.
• Proverbs 237

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How not to coach yourself

• Why am I like this? Why can everybody else do
  it?
• What is wrong with me?
• How can I lose weight really easily, without any
  discomfort or effort?
• How can I be this fat?
• When did she get so thin?
• Why did I get diabetes ?

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Coaching is about Asking the Right Questions

• . At the Right Time !

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Positive Self Coaching- 10 Empowering Questions
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Positive Self Coaching- 10 Questions

• Can I modify this diet plan so it works for me by
  making one change?
• What has worked in the past, for me, that may
  really helped me out today?

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Positive Self Coaching- 10 Questions..continued

• How did I think during a successful weight
  management period?
• What was going on in my life? Who were my best
  supports?
• What is the exercise program that I committed to
  the longest? When was I most active?

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Positive Self Coaching- 10 Questions..continued

• When dont I struggle with food?
• What am I really feeding ?
• What foods fill me up but dont leave me craving
  more and more?
• What are the other ways to distract me, soothe me
  or give me pleasure?

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When You Slip Up

• Coaching statements
• I made a mistake,
• I was wrong,
• I accept myself and next time I will
• Take an action step in that moment towards
  health

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
  measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that
  most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to
  be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
  Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child
  of God.

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• Your playing small does not serve the world.
  There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so
  that other people won't feel unsure around you.
  We were born to make manifest the glory of God
  that is within us. It is not just in some of us
  it is in everyone.

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• As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously
  give other people permission to do the same. As
  we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
  automatically liberates others.
• Marianne Williamson

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Positive Self Coaching- 10 Questions..continued

• If I am powerful and strong how would I coach
  myself and how would I behave in this moment ?

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The Winning Attitude

• I can do it !
• Create your own, personalized success formula !
• Set a definite plan and make a thousand
  mid-course corrections
• Life is filled with feedback not failures
• Emotional eating is a solution to a deeper
  problem

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The Winning Attitude

• Coach Yourself in a Loving Way
• Solve your deeper aches and pains (or at least be
  nice to yourself )
• Everyone has the resources for success
• Respect the Grays- The Case for the Middle Road
• Seek out Support