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The Ultimate Guide to Determining Your Weight Loss Why

A why is an integral part of your journey. If your why is defined, specific, written and part of who you are it can have a profound effect on your journey. It gives you control, hope and power. This post is all about helping you define your why and give you control. I want you to have the power! (I almost feel like He-Man when I say that!)

I have the power!-Now you get your power!

Having a strong why can keep you on track and make the journey a little easier to stick with. I really want you to FEEL your why, and submerge yourself in the feeling of it. As you go through this and start to define your why, it may bring you to tears. This means you are on the right track. :)

We all have a surface why. It usually sounds something like this: “I wish I looked better in my clothes.” This translates to I want to lose weight to look better in my clothes. I don’t see a lick of emotion in that “Why”, and that is where it fails.

This is a surface why. Although you may feel a little sad that you don’t look good in your clothes, it’s really not enough to make that cheese burger taste like cardboard if you take a bite of it.

Nope, that cheese burger still tastes AWESOME, it calls to you beyond all reason and your clothes just got a little tighter. ( I know mine did…LOL) So what will help make that cheeseburger taste nasty…?

Getting to the deeper purpose requires asking yourself “Why?” at least 5 times to get to the “final answer”. Keep this surface why in mind as you read through the article. We will take it all the way to a final destination at the end of this article.

If your “Why” is 4 levels or deeper, it can change your response to what you want. This can include food. There is a caveat here… you will still occasionally crave it, but as you grow, you can act on that craving based on your other goals rather than being controlled by the craving.

By the way… being controlled by food sucks! Things taste much better when you control what you are eating rather than the other way around.

Discipline. “

Ok so how does this work? Back on topic… ADD moment there. Sorry stay with me!

By digging into to your “WHY” until it aligns with your core values it becomes a part of you. It’s no longer something you are “trying to do”, it is now part of who you are.

For years I said “I am not a runner”, this really translated in my brain to I have no desire to be healthy. I made jokes about it, being unhealthy was tightly aligned with my core values. I saw it as taking time away from my family. My job as mom was to “be there” and take care of them.

Being unhealthy aligned with my core value of my responsibility to my family. I wasn’t seeing the big picture!

It took me seeing my mom so incredibly unhealthy and my dad passing away from cancer to see if I truly wanted to be responsible for my family I needed to BE healthy and teach my children what healthy was!

This core value was a big part of my why and it kept my motivation strong. Nobody messes with MOMMA BEAR! Just ask the principal at my kids school. :)

How do you define you?

To understand what you truly value and how you define yourself will help you determine your WHY. What boundary do you not cross. What is essential for your happiness?

-OR-

By digging deep into your original WHY you find deeper reasons that really make you want to change. This change may have something to do with your definition of you as a parent, or as a professional, or even as a human being.

Maybe you feel that being overweight takes away from your professional persona, and it prevents you from being taken seriously. I know 100 pounds ago, I often tried to hide in the background of the endless software development and design meetings we had.

I didn’t want to draw attention to myself, I was not a confident professional. Losing weight changed this, even though it was not a primary part of my why.

Your core reasons, are yours alone! I have shared mine, and how I determined what was truly essential to my happiness. My core reason was being here for my family the right way, using my definition of “right”.

My WHY aligned with my core value of being responsible for my family. It had the added effect of giving me the confidence to stand up and share my professional opinions in work meetings and not fear the spot light.

I no longer feel the terrified to make my opinion known. I can stand up and speak, without fear of judgement. I never wanted people to look at me and see the fat. I felt like I was being judged by my appearance, not by the knowledge I was trying to share.

Your core reasons can fall into many categories. I am listing a few ideas to investigate below:

Your core reasons, defined by your core values for your journey, are your motivators and your WHY for your Journey. If the core reasons you choose don’t resonate deeply with you it’s easy to go off the rails, and feel overwhelmed, anxious and out of control.

There are several non-core reasons, that I often see as a WHY. I am going to give you a list. But before I do, let me point out, these may work for you! They may get you to the finish line.

The question I want you to ask yourself, is this reason going to help me not only reach the finish line, but is it going to help me maintain my results for the long haul?

Here are some non-core reasons I see:

This may be a good core reason, any of these “may” keep you going. But in reality only you know your core values, and if these are “deep” enough to keep you going and if you will be able to maintain it based on the WHY you choose.

Okay, let’s wrap up this really long post. :) Remember in the beginning I said I would revisit our opening WHY statement… Here it is in case you’ve forgotten it, in this novel of a post….

“I wish I looked better in my clothes.” This translates to I want to lose weight to look better in my clothes.

This is our level One Why… Here I am going to show you how I would break this down with 5 levels of why and how I would look at my core values and reasons to get to a big WHY.

One last really key point before I sign off.

Don’t let your WHY rush your need for results! This is a marathon, not a sprint!

To make this journey permanent, it requires building on mindset and habits. Look at the long term, realize each moment is a learning moment and get the most out of each moment.

Keep it realistic, and know the journey takes time.

In this post we covered A LOT of information. Your why is an integral part of your journey, and is key to adjusting your mindset.

Have an amazing day! Sending love & hugs!

Michelle Thomas is an ACE Certified Health Coach, a certified Precision Nutrition Level 1 Coach and she is a Certified Wellness, Nutrition and Fitness Coach for people who have 100 pounds or more to lose, she coaches them and gives them the tools to change their habits and change their lives forever.

Through her passionate and open hearted Online Wellness classes, Nutrition Challenges and Coaching, she’s here to inspire you to change your approach to weight loss and wellness — while making it all feel like a natural part of who you are.

And when she’s not coaching you can find her lifting heaving things(often her teens), creating new healthy recipes or researching new techniques.

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