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Use Your Mindset to Lose Weight, Get Fit and Be Healthy

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Why do some people seem to lose weight easily while others fail year after year? Is it genetics? Money? Willpower? While it’s true these may play a small part, there’s something else that has a much larger role. It’s  mindset . And yours may be holding you back. In this article, we’ll explore the science behind your mindset and underlying philosophy, and show you some proven ways to take action to improve it–so you can finally use your mindset to lose weight , get fit and be healthy. What Is “Mindset”? Mindsets are beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities. Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, who wrote a book called  Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,  says there are two different types of mindsets: fixed and growth-oriented. People with a  fixed mindset  think talent alone creates success. When faced with a challenge, they tend to take the easy way out to avoid failure and embarrassment. This is a psychological principle known as...

Weight Loss Mindset: 10 tips for change

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Every day individuals resign themselves to make the adjustments to their life to deliver real body change. It sometimes helps to know some of the most important elements of the fat loss lifestyle. Here is some insight that may help you make the switch into your new fat loss lifestyle, my 10 tips for real body change. 1) Stop playing the weight loss game and get into fat loss. If you are still using a scale to measure your progress in body change, it will be virtually impossible to know what kind of weight you are losing. Just because you are losing weight does not mean you are losing fat. Too often it is not fat people are losing but rather water or even worse, muscle. This leads to yo-yo dieting and  weight rebound. A loss of muscle will make the metabolism less efficient in the long run. This is a key reason why chronic dieters have a more difficult time getting any sort of result as they age. To avoid this issue get something to monitor fat loss. 2) Stop counting calories and...