Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Introduction

Once you remove the reasons why your body wants to be fat, your relationship to exercise will also change. Right now you may think you hate to exercise; I don’t blame you. There is a very real reason why you hate exercise: your body doesn’t want you to exercise since exercising will make you lose weight. As long as your body wants to be fat, it won’t want you to be active and burning calories, because that will only make keeping the weight harder for it. Your body makes you tired and lethargic so that even the thought of exercise causes you pain. This is not a coincidence; this is something your body is doing intentionally so that you will remain sedentary. However, once you remove the reasons why your body thinks it needs to be fat, it will want to be active again. Exercise will no longer be a chore, and being active may even become one of your greatest joys. I repeat, although it may not show right away, it is only a matter of time before you’ll lose all the weight. You’ll know that the change will have already happened on the inside, and it’s only a matter of time before everyone else is going see it on the outside. I knew over two years before anyone else did what was going on inside my body. I didn’t talk about it much, but I knew what was going on. I might have been walking around in a 400- pound body, but in my mind’s eye, I held the image of a teenager who weighed 180 pounds. From that moment on, it was a certainty. The most amazing thing that happened to me was that the more I lost weight, the faster I lost it. I discovered there was a reason for this. Your body has complete control over how fast you burn fat. If it wants to be thinner, it will burn fat very quickly and easily. That’s the biggest difference between my method and a diet: the thinner my body wanted to be, the faster I lost weight. Diets all start out the same way. You lose weight very quickly at first, but then your weight loss slows down. Finally, you stop losing weight altogether only to gain it back a short time later.

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