Why Your Happiness Is Crucial To Losing Weight

Having a happy heart is a crucial key to long term weight loss without dieting. 

If you’re overweight, it’s most likely because you’ve been coping with life using food and beverages to soothe and manage your emotions and alleviate stress and tension. 

Which means you have more stress and tension in your life than you do relaxation and joy. 

If you have more stress and tension in your life than you do relaxation and joy and you’re overweight, then you’re already feeling very restricted, aren’t you? 

So it’s easy to see that going on a rigid, restricting diet and/or exercise program is really just compounding the issue. 

Great change doesn’t happen when you tighten down and restrict yourself more. 

Great and lasting change happens when you loosen up and release your grip and allow yourself to have fun. 

UNDERESTIMATING THE VALUE OF HAPPINESS 

We underestimate the value of happiness and the role it plays in our life. 

Having a happy heart is the doorway to;

• Sparkling health
• Joyful relationships
• Creativity
• Blissful sleep
• And generally feeling relaxed and able to handle whatever comes your way. 

Having a happy heart is the key to developing the emotional stability you need to overcome; 

• Emotional eating
• Surmount cravings
• Ignore temptations
• And curtail overeating and binge eating. 

Finding ways to make your happy heart sing is all about;

• What you do with your spare time

• The hobbies you have

• The choices you make throughout your day

• How you are in your relationships with the people in your life

• How you treat others

• How you allow others to treat you

• How you treat yourself and your body

• How you treat your environment

• What music you listen to

• What TV and movies you watch

• What you read

• Your outlook on life
• Your attitude and belief about your capabilities, what you are worthy of having and achieving 

In short, absolutely everything about how you live your life contributes to your ability to achieve emotional stability and ultimately feel happy within yourself about yourself and your life. 

When you feel happy about yourself and your life;

• You naturally start to treat yourself better
• Make better food choices
• Want to get out and move your body 

BENEFITS OF BEING HAPPY 

• Boosts emotional intelligence
• Boosts self-esteem
• Increases confidence
• Improves problem solving
• Increases flexibility in all areas
• Improves relationships
• Increases serotonin
• Increases happiness and well-being
• Increases natural sensory stimulation
• Decreases cortisol
• Off-sets depression
• Reduces stress and builds resilience 

Emotional stability and resilience is a cornerstone of changing your eating habits, patterns and behaviours and being able to break-free from repeating cycles of weight loss and weight gain. 

START CREATING HAPPINESS TODAY 

Start with easy things, look for something simple that you can do each day to bring a smile to your face;

• Dance for 1 song
• Watch something funny on YouTube/TV
• Ring a friend who makes you laugh
• Go for a walk and look at everything around you
• Do something that is easy and joyful
• Find people who have the success strategies that teach you the secrets to getting your happy heart singing 

Finding ways to be happy is easier than you think….once you decide that’s how you want to feel, you know it’s time to take action.