Skyler Meine

Weight loss is not a solo journey. Being part of a community and interacting with like-minded people is important in all things, but especially to a successful body shaping program.

Why?

Two reasons. One, a support network is a reinforcer—adding social pressure to make you accountable for your goals. And two, it’s an uplifter—making you feel happy, confident and educated about what you’re working toward.

The Online Community

Blogs, forums and other online communities are a great place to discuss your experience and ask questions without fear of judgment. You can feel good commenting on others’ stories and showing them support. In fact, you’ve already joined an online community by coming here.

Two more incredible communities are NoMoreBacon and AskFitnessCoach. Both invite you to share in the authors’ successes and mishaps on the road to their IdealShapes. They share research and pose thoughtful questions, and hope that you will add yours. Here, community members like Mizfit show support, add info, and are inspired. Remember, the people who create online communities aren’t doing it for themselves; they are passionate about fitness, and want to educate, entertain, show positive support and hear from you!

It only takes a minute to acknowledge others on their weight loss journey, or leave a tip about something that works for you. You’ll be doing your friends in the community a bigger service than you know. Please leave a comment on any post here that inspires you.

The Live Community

Because it’s not good to spend all your networking time at the computer, get out of the house to meet people, too! A successful body shaping mission should be active and fully engaged. Socialize with others who are working toward their IdealShape: join a class, arrange a club, or attend a fitness boot camp.

Honestly, being alone in a weight loss journey isn’t much fun. It’s not effective or sustainable, either. We need social support and reinforcement to create a change this big in our lives.

Communities provide great information and free support. You could pay a therapist to psychoanalyze why you have trouble managing your weight. Or, you can empower yourself by discussing your experiences right here with a weight loss expert and others like you. Which seems like a better way to understand where you’re coming from and what you need to work on? Which sounds more fun?

Your goal for today is… To connect with others who are on a weight loss journey. Maybe it will be the social media community online, or maybe you’ll reach out to your network of friends and family and beyond. Hopefully, it will be both!

So get out and join the community today. Learn from others’ experiences, share yours, and talk to the experts. Make your IdealShape a reality!

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If you are like many of my weight loss clients, you have started more programs than you would like to count. You had high hopes and those hopes quickly faded, either because you didn’t follow through or you weren’t seeing the results you wanted to see. Was it your fault? Consciously maybe it wasn’t. But maybe something was going on in your head, unconsciously, that sabotaged your weight loss goals.

If you struggled to stay on track with your goals, you were probably frustrated because you didn’t understand why. As a weight loss expert I sometimes have to be a psychologist, too. I have to determine what is going on in my clients’ minds that is keeping them from being successful with program I have given them. I know it isn’t the program, per se, because everyone else following it is losing weight. So I realized early on that I had to find other solutions in addition to motivation, good nutrition and exercise to help them accomplish their goals. And, by the way, I am not a big fan of trying to be psychologist or counselor to my clients. So instead I found a resource that is much, much more effective: hypnosis for weight loss.

Weight loss hypnotherapy can help you overcome the roadblocks that have kept you from losing weight. It also helps you develop the habits that will let you lose weight successfully and keep it off. This isn’t like the hypnosis you see in the movies. Instead, you put in a Weight Loss Hypnotherapy CD right before you go to bed at night. Through guided meditation, it imprints on your subconscious the determination to accomplish your goals. It also relaxes and grounds you, so you’ll sleep better and wake up to continue your program with a clear mind.

Many of my clients who once looked at their weight loss journey negatively are now finding it enjoyable and worthwhile. This is due to the impact that hypnosis for weight loss has had on their subconscious. To learn more about hypnosis for weight loss, click here. If it sounds like I am giving you a sales pitch, that’s because I am. Hypnotherapy has proven to be incredibly successful for weight loss, and it’s something people need to look into if they are encountering roadblocks in their weight loss journey.

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