Having worked with hundreds, probably thousands of people looking forward to lose weight over the years, I’ve began to notice one thought process that’s often present in people struggling to lose weight.
That when we address this, success becomes much easier.
It’s a thought process that actually causes people in all walks of life, with lots of different goals, and happiness.
It’s what’s generally known as a ‘sense of entitlement’.
When people think they’re entitled to certain things, whether it be a certain standard of life, a certain job, or other things in their life, it also makes it harder for them to do the things they need to do to get there.
With a sense of entitlement people think it should just be happening, and that it is unfair when it doesn’t.
I have found many times with clients and members of our Group Personal Training clubs, that people feel that they should be able to eat what they want and still lose weight.
People think they should be able to eat everything in moderation, or that, if they do enough exercise, they’ll achieve the body that they desire.
This is a form of a sense of entitlement.
People think they’re entitled for something to happen because it happens to somebody else that way.
When I raise this with a member or a one-to-one client, and explain whilst that may work for someone else they’re not entitled for it to work for them, and the fact that it hasn’t worked as an approach for weeks, months, years, sometimes even decades, suggests it won’t work for them.
So if you feel sometimes that you’re entitled or you should be able to eat everything you want in moderation, if you do a enough exercise you’ll lose weight – if that worked for you, then brilliant carry on.
If it hasn’t, accept that it’s not an entitlement.
I’m sure it’s not necessarily fair, life isn’t.
But, when you accept that you’re not entitled to certain things it becomes much easier to do what you need to do to get those things.
