Do You Use Your Mental Mirror For Maximum Success?
Does goal setting help in losing weight? It definitely does.
Some people say goal setting is a science in itself. It is. And even more following through on goals, and being motivated to do so.
One of the keys to successful behavior change is seeing (visualizing) yourself in your changed behavior. You’ve probably heard that before, and you might have tried it. There are two keys to it though:
First, it’s a matter of frequency. Do it once or twice will likely not work. If you really want to be successful in losing weight permanently, practice the same visualization for at least a month. From my experience working with clients, it helps if you set aside a specific time of the day for that. This could be before lunch to curb the appetite for big portions. Or in the morning, after getting up (highly effective, because you are still in a sort-of dreamy state).
Postponing it into the evening is often not working. People are stressed out, have other things to do, and when it is time to go to bed, they are too tired.
Second, it works best if you see yourself as an independent observer. This means, you are looking at you when you are achieving your goals to lose weight permanently just as another person would look at you. Basically, you see yourself as if you would look into a mirror – a mental mirror. The technique has been found superior in a psychological study (*).
You might play around a little bit with the two perspectives: seeing yourself as an independent observer, and seeing yourself from your own perspective… Probably, the first one will give you better results.
Related article:
The 3 Steps To Finish Perfect Visualisation Of Permanent Weight Loss
(*)Thomas Gilovich, Lisa K. Libby, Richard Eibach in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 88, No. 1, 2005).
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