If you have tried every so-called healthy diet plan on the planet and every exercise program from the latest fitness guru and repeatedly failed to achieve your weight loss goals, you probably need a %u201Chealthy diet check up…from the neck up.%u201D

There’s no such thing as a healthy, fast, weight loss diet plan. Successful weight loss doesn%u2019t just happen. It took more than a few days to reach the point where you are at right now. Give yourself a break and expect it to take awhile before you see measurable results. Take a leap of faith and follow some basic principles in your diet plan.

Begin with your %u201Cself talk.%u201D This is the conversation that runs through your brain continuously. What kind of conversation do you have with your self talk? What type of negative self talk has kept you from reaching your weight loss goals in the past?

If you had a chance to do it over again, would you change the dialogue? That%u2019s a no-brainer isn%u2019t it? Well, the good news is that you can turn the tide of negative self talk beginning right now. It%u2019s never too late to begin and you start by reprogramming your self talk and beginning a whole new weight loss diet plan.

A good starting point is to begin with positive affirmations. Positive affirmations, spoken aloud with authority and belief, positively affect your attitude, focuses your thinking and lead to a course of action that will help you become the person you want to be and have the things that you want to have.

Begin by writing your weight loss affirmations on paper. You can begin with something like, %u201CI want to lose 25 pounds before Christmas.%u201D That%u2019s a worthy goal and attainable, but we need to put some work into structuring the affirmation.

First of all, %u201CI want%u201D gives the impression that what you desire is always in the future. In order to re-program your self talk, you need to trick your mind into believing that you have already achieved weight loss success. This is how your subconscious mind functions.

Your subconscious mind has no capacity for understanding the concept of time. Everything is in the moment. . .here and now. When you tell your subconscious mind that you %u201Cwant%u201D, that is exactly what you will get. . .want. . .without ever achieving fulfillment. Unless you change your mental tape recorder, you will achieve exactly what you are telling your subconscious, that you %u201Cwant to lose 25 pounds.%u201D You will %u201Cwant to lose 25 pounds%u201D for the rest of your days unless you change your self talk.

If your weight is 150 pounds and you desire is to weight 125 pounds, then you need to %u201Cbe%u201D 125 pounds from the moment you make the decision to change your self talk. What if you write your affirmation to read something like this: %u201CI am healthy and fit, weighing 125 pounds.%u201D

It is extremely important that your affirmation is crystal clear because what you affirm is exactly what your subconscious mind will bring you.

You needn%u2019t limit yourself to one affirmation either. Write another one that reflects your new exercise program. %u201CI enjoy my healthy new diet plan,%u201D or, %u201CI love the healthy foods I eat.%u201D

Write and rewrite until you are absolutely certain that you have written your weight loss goals %u201Cin the here and now%u201D AND represent precisely what you desire. Only then do you begin to speak it aloud and do so several times a day.

Remember to use the present tense. %u201CI acknowledge achievement in all my weight loss goals.%u201D %u201CI have the skill and talent to exercise every day.%u201D %u201CI am a winner.%u201D %u201CI am grateful for all of my accomplishments no matter how small.%u201D

At first you will feel awkward and uncomfortable and you may not feel or believe what you are saying. It doesn%u2019t matter, continue to speak them aloud with as much conviction as you can muster. It%u2019s taken a long time to train your subconscious to use negative self talk. If you will persevere with speaking your affirmations aloud, firmly and confidently, you will be amazed at how quickly you can turn your thoughts around.

You didn%u2019t hop on a bicycle the first time and just take off down the street. It took practice to train your body to balance on those two wheels. This will take some practice as well. Continue to repeat your affirmations aloud, several times a day for the next 30 days and you will be amazed at how much you change your thinking and attitude.

Above all, take action. Do nothing and nothing gets done. Do something and many things are placed in motion.

Regardless of what you are doing in life, you need to take action. Do something every day to put your plan into motion.