Source: Dumb Little Man
Have you ever asked yourself how people lose weight and manage to keep it off?
You are thinking losing weight and staying fit is a matter of genetics, metabolism, and the willpower to change one’s habits. Although those things play a part in losing weight, building muscle, and improving one’s general health, the most important component to change happens in your brain.
The two stimuli that cause a person to take action
According to Tony Robbins’ book, Awaken The Giant Within, human beings are motivated to take action by two things: pain and pleasure.
We do the things we do to move from pain to pleasure.
That can be eating, sleeping, finding a partner in life, quitting a job you hate, drinking, smoking or gambling.
We associate eating with pleasure because it removes the pain of hunger.
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We sleep to give our exhausted bodies and minds some rest.
We spend a good portion of our lives looking for a partner so we can share our joys and sorrows.
Even people who drink associate alcohol with pleasure. Maybe it’s to help them forget about their problems or to help them de-stress after a hectic work week. Perhaps, they enjoy socializing and alcohol just happened to be a part of most gatherings.
What causes a person to change his or her habits?
How do people suddenly find the motivation they need to lose weight?
I used to wonder if there was a switch you can turn on in a person’s head to make him decide to change for the better.
It turns out there is a name for that switch. It’s called the pain threshold.
Tony Robbins described crossing the pain threshold as the ultimate motivator to create change. Once you associate so much pain to something, you would do everything in your power to change it and move yourself to pleasure.
Most people who decided to lose weight crossed the pain threshold, which can be in the form of health issues.
Arthur Boorman was in so much pain from walking. So, he decided he had to lose weight or he would never walk unassisted for life.
Jared Mollenkopf was so out of shape that he got tired just sitting in front of a computer. Since he has an office job, imagine how much pain he’s in, having to sit for 8 hours a day.
Stacey Morris got embarrassed each time she had to put on extension seat belts whenever she flies. Since her job requires her to travel a lot, she had to endure that situation often.
It’s also pretty common to see people choosing to lose weight because of their family. Not living long enough to see young kids grow up or not having the energy to be there…
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