LightenUp: Every mind, every body.

Assess yourself

Almost all of us have been on a diet at least once in our lives, yet a whopping 98% of diets fail!* The strange thing is we all know what we need to do to lose weight, and keep it off.

Quite simply we must:

• Eat less calories, or
• Burn more calories through our fitness activities, or
• Combine both of the above.

If we all know what we need to do, why do the vast majority of us fail? 

Because it is not about the diet! Effective sustainable results will only happen when we address our mind. Ultimately, our body will do whatever our mind tells it to do, whether we are conscious of our mental instructions to our body - or not.  The majority of diets do not address the psychology of weight loss which is fundamental to weight loss success and sustainability.  LightenUp is an intelligent approach to weight loss.

Self-assessment Questions

Which of the following scenarios apply to you?

• I have tried countless diets and most of them/all of them failed.
• I have been on a diet, lost the weight I wanted and then down the track gained it all back.
• I keep feeling like I should go on a diet and lose a few kilos but I don’t really want to.
• I have a habit of craving fatty/sugary/junk food when I am feeling down or bored.
• I have a habit of eating much larger portions of food than I think I need and then feeling so full and regretting it afterwards.
• If a favourite food of mine (chocolate, chips etc) is the in the house or in front of me I can’t help but eat it even if I am not hungry.
• When I look in the mirror I don’t like what I see.
• I don’t feel good about myself and secretly feel that if I was thinner/more muscly/more toned then life would be better.
• I don’t pay any attention to what I’m eating and often don’t remember what I’ve had.

If you answered Yes to 3 or more of these statements then LightenUp may be the answer for you. Read more about the program

Reference

1. Hulse, Dean (Ed.) "Fad Diets Popular but Have Major-League Failure Rate" NEWS for North Dakotans 8 July 1999 http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsrelease/1999/070899/04faddie.htm