I have been reading up on the good benefits there is to do visualization techniques seeing yourself at your goal weight etc and that it help with motivation and reaching your goals. I’ve read the best way to do this is to use all your senses.
Now, it took a while for me to be able to see myself at my goal weight, what I am wearing how I look, what am I doing, what does it feel like, using my senses, what do I smell feel touch etc. Now I’m reading the best technique is not to see yourself like your looking at yourself but from your own view point as in you look through your own eyes.
It so weird I just can’t do it right now, I just see myself as fat, I try to see it differently what I look like, how I dress all the above but it’s just to weird, I just see myself more overweight than I actually am.
Any one else having this problem or how did you manage to change it and does visualization help you with your weight loss.
I think every now and then I imagine being with my friends, and I'm wearing the shorts and shirt that I want to wear together, and my legs and arms are thin. I imagine getting in races with them, and winning because I've been running.
But indeed, is weird for me to look at my legs, now, and force myself into seeing them at the weight I want to be at. Often times though, I feel at the bones and tendons in my body and tell myself that that's where my skin is supposed to be, not out here.
I try to everytime I see a clothing item online that I wouldn't wear as I am now, sometimes I can almost see it, but most of the time there's not a chance...
I think maybe has something to do with how I'm feeling that day. I don't know if that makes any sense, but in my case it could be an explanation.
One of the many times that I've lost weight, I had a picture of a one-piece swimsuit that I just LOVED. I taped it up where I could see it everyday and I eventually was able to buy it and wear it.
I haven't done anything like that in a long time. Thanks for bringing up the idea. It just may be something I do in the very near future.
Spiritix: I haven't considered doing it for races, great idea, I started running and will now think of it while I'm running.
Em Coconut: Yes, I do that to when I see clothing, recently for the first time in my life I started doing that with short dresses, haven't had one since I was a kid. I just avoid showing my legs
Ms Shapen: You just reminded me of an exercise I did the last time I lost a lot of weight...I've done this so many times. I would visualize myself in the sky as energy like a animation in a form that can be easily changed, then I would see myself take of the overweight like a suit and disperse into the sky while my goal body is standing there very happy. I'm sure that it helped.
Visualization helped me big time. I used to have pictures of outfits in my exercise room in front of the elliptical and I would look at them and imagine how I would look at goal in those outfits. I lost about 60 pounds like that.
Visualization plays a huge role in weight loss for me too. I'm always online shopping and I know certain things that I would LOVE to wear will NOT look good on me like those models that wear them. I sometimes visualize that I'll be as skinny as them one day and feel confident in anything I wear!
You see, I have big arms so sometimes to help the visualization, I do this stupid thing where I would look in the mirror, pull the fat back, and think to myself "If I lose the weight, my arms can be that thin" LOL! Or I suck in my stomach and think of how wonderful it would be to have a flat stomach. My stomach is not my problem area though, my arms are!
That is something I do consistently ever since I was at my heaviest weight. It helps to see how I would look, feel, touch, move through my own eyes and POV because then it feels more real and attainable to me. If I didn't use visualization then my goals would feel a lot more like a burden than something I can definitely reach. I don't know if that makes sense, but I had a harder time visualizing when I first started that technique than I do now. It's almost second nature when I need that extra kick of motivation or visualizing how I will look and feel during those workouts at my goal.
I also like to see my before pictures with a current photo to see how far I've come.
this thread popped into my head the other nite while i was walking my dog... i could see myself in a brand new bikini next summer n i got all excited n walked longer n faster than usual trying to reach that goal even faster!
Practice makes perfect... keep working on this! I def believe in this method for all things in life you want.
I agree, KELLEYB ~ I visualize myself smaller like I was in my mid-20's, and even in a specific outfit. I plan ahead, and makes lists for all my dreams too; and the one on top is getting to a comfortable, healthy weight again. I also noticed that I even dream of myself as a smaller person now, so it seems to be seeping into my sub-conscious mind too.
For those who were never really slim, find a picture of what you would like to look like or in a specific outfit, like others have mentioned here. I think that might work well too. They say you are what you think you are; and you can achieve anything that you believe ...
Visualization techniques and weight loss
I just see myself more overweight than I actually am.
