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Committment In Weight Loss – Just The Next Small Step Past Where You Are Now

Why can’t I just do this?  Why does something always have to happen to make it so hard, just when I’m doing great?  Nobody has tried harder than I have!  Everything else in my life is perfect!  I’m successful at work.  I’m a great wife and mother. I have wonderful friends. I’m good at everything I do. I don’t deserve to look like this! I have worked so hard, and I deserve to be thin.  When is this weight going to finally be lifted? I mean, really, when is it going to be my turn?

I’m sorry to keep asking you this, but do you hear yourself?

I will tell you one thing: if you are waiting for someone to give you a turn, you will be waiting forever.  You get a turn when you take one! Period. And don’t be misguided Taking your turn has nothing to do with anyone else not getting his or hers; it’s not selfish. It has to do with you and how much you are willing to put yourself first and really work at everything you need to do to begin approaching life differently.  Yes, life, not food! Food is not the problem! We blame the food because that’s easier than looking within and finding the real causes of the problem. The causes that make us quit when the going gets a little tough.

So, what are the real causes? Well, one of the big ones is Commitment. Or, more to the point, the lack of Commitment! I have written about some of my favorite words previously: words like Longevity, Slippage, and Consistency, and today I would like to talk to you about Commitment. Now you might think, at first, that Commitment is very similar to Consistency, but it isn’t, actually.  Let me explain what I am speaking of when I speak of the all-important virtue of Commitment.

Years ago, growing up, I had no clue as to what Commitment meant, and how possessing it or lacking it could impact my life.  I think I put on a good show. In fact, I doubt anyone would have said that I had a hard time with Commitment, but I did. I never seemed to finish anything.  I wasn’t consciously aware of it at the time, but the symptoms were there. I had a lot of really good ideas, and I would venture into one, make progress, become a bit distracted, and then abandon it. I rationalized this by saying the new idea was better and more deserving of my time, but that was not really true.  One day, depressed about the weight loss plan I had recently abandoned, I began to connect the dots. I realized that in a very short period of time, I had been working on at least a half dozen amazing ideas, but none had come to fruition. I could suddenly see that there was a definite pattern, and it had nothing to do with one idea being more worthwhile than another.  It had to do with obstacles.  While I always thought of myself as a resourceful problem solver, I could look at every half-finished project and see that when a certain level of challenge arose, I happily moved on to another “amazing” project.  This pattern had become something of a driving force in my life.  This was a real problem.

The immediate problem that day was that like most of you, I had started dozens of different diets only to quit when it became hard to overcome some obstacle on the path. I would rationalize quitting by telling myself, “There has to be a better way. It shouldn’t have to be this hard!” And then, I would find another plan that, it goes without saying, never proved to be better or easier.  I simply didn’t know how to commit to something and work through the obstacles that inevitably arose.  When I realized this about myself, it really bothered me. I felt like I was a lie.  All the things I said to myself were just words and empty promises that I was only too happy to believe. I did a lot of talking and not much doing. I always looked busy, but I was only spinning my wheels.  I didn’t realize that without Commitment I had no chance of success. Ultimately, I developed a capacity for Commitment and met with much success over the years, success with my weight and success in many other ventures, including this, my newest one!

One day, I remembered a story my father had told me.  Actually, I told it to one of my favorite clients this week, and he suggested I write about it; so here I am, doing just that! My father, Carlos, grew up in Barcelona, Spain and spent a lot of time outside with his friends.  At one point, there was a competition among the teens to see which of them could accomplish the feat of lifting a manhole cover out of the street with only one finger.  One boy succeeded and the rest were “determined” to follow suit. Please, take a second and think about the weight and thickness of a manhole cover!

So, every day my father would go outside and try to lift the enormous disk, but he couldn’t even budge it.  The Titan who had already done it was much bigger than my father, but he did not let that dampen his spirit, and he persevered, day after day.  Please note that the other boys talked about how they were going to show everyone up and do the deed, but there was no queue on the street waiting for a chance to practice! One day, after yet another failed attempt, my father had a moment of clarity.  He thought, “Well, Carlos, every day you come back here and stick your finger into the hole in that cast iron cover and pull; and every day you fail. But you fail at the same time each day, you quit when you feel as if your finger will be ripped from your hand. You stop just when it gets really hard. Why don’t you commit to going just a bit beyond that place, just the tiniest bit beyond? Why not today?”

He assumed he would have the same result, but he could see no harm in testing his theory.   So he did. Again there was the familiar pulling, the familiar pain, the urge to stop. However, this time he had committed to himself to reach a little bit further inside, and guess what? He found something he didn’t know was there, the tiniest bit more “oomph.”  So, he oomph-ed and….did it move? It almost didn’t seem real, but he didn’t stop. He just kind of held on… and then something else happened!  He felt physically stronger! Odd, you would have thought the pain would be unbearable, but it wasn’t because the thing moved! It did! It wasn’t his imagination! And it moved with only the tiniest amount of extra effort.  Strengthened by success, he had the courage to pull more and the slab of iron kept coming! Now pride entered the equation, and he pulled some more.  And then…he did it! He pulled it off!

The moral of the story says “It” is in there for you and me, as well. And “It” is only a little deeper than the place where we have been quitting.  If we always stop at the same level of challenge, or pain, we never get to the finish. Commitment is about “hitting the wall” as runners say, and moving through it with courage and Commitment!  In essence, that’s what I finally did.  And that’s what my clients learn to do. So the next time it becomes too hard to follow my plan, and you feel too hungry, tired, or overwhelmed, just try a bit more.  Not a lot; just a little.  And your weight will be lifted as surely as my father’s was! He did it. I did it. My clients did it. And, yes, you can do it.

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