One of the big areas that can help people with their goal of losing weight is learning how to make personal changes. People might read that and think they have to join a monastery or take a vow of abstinence from french fries or something, but the heart of the matter is nothing like that at all.

Real personal choice comes from a place inside of you where you take care of yourself. Now before you think that sounded all new-agey and stuff, just think about it for a minute. Many of the habits you have now, especially in regards to eating, are simply choices you learned to make. And now you make the same ones over and over again.

You learned how to do this from the people you grew up around. Your parents, your siblings, your friends. When you held them in high regard, they influenced your choices. If you grew up believing that every meal had to end with bread and gravy until all the gravy was gone, that might be contributing to the way you are eating now.

And if your goal is to lose weight, it might be that you will need to learn to make some different choices. These don’t have to be radical changes, as a matter of fact, small ones are best to start with. It is easy to make a small change and see success with it, then to make a huge change and fail almost immediately.

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