Weight Loss Naturally - Lose Weight with the MC2 Method

Are you ready for a weight loss method that really works?

The MC2 Method empowers you with the ability to transform uncomfortable body sensations rather than letting them control your decisions and actions... AND WHAT IS HUNGER? It's a body sensation!

If you take a look at just about any popular weight loss product or program on the market, what's the sales pitch? Most likely there's a promise of easy weight loss, without the mention of hunger. If you've tried one or more of these before, was it effective? Did it last? Was it healthy and sustainable?

There's a simple equation that the number of food calories you take in, minus the number of food calories you burn, equals your calories of weight gain or loss. But while regular exercise is a good idea and an effective way to burn calories, the weak link in weight management usually comes on the other side of the equation - in the form of overeating. Although most of us are well aware of which foods are high in calories and which are not, it is rarely lack of such knowledge that stymies our weight loss efforts. Rather, it is lack of willpower to refrain from excessive eating -- to resist those urges to snack, sip, and indulge -- that prevent us from maintaining our ideal weight. In most cases, many of us simply don't need the amount of food we're eating. We're in the habit of eating to maximum capacity, even though a sensation of fullness occurs well before that. And it's often this simple fact that's causing us to gain weight.

Regardless of whether this tendency is driven by survival instinct or emotional comforting, overeating almost always originates with the desire to alleviate some sort of internal urge. And until we learn how to deal with that mental aspect, the quest to find a diet that works is rendered hopeless in the absense of willpower to follow it.

The objective of the MC2 Method is to show you how to dissolve those inner urges directly. This will be your key to weight management. With this key, you'll eliminate the tendency to overeat, reverse the calorie equation, and begin to lose weight naturally.
 

DISCLAIMER & WARNING

What I'm going to share with you on this page is a method to mentally overcome the urges and cravings that often interfere with weight loss. I have used this psychological technique in multiple areas of my life, and can say that it really works -- and I sincerely hope that you find the same benefit. However, please keep in mind that what is right for some people is not necessarily right for everyone. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD NOT BE RELIED ON AS MEDICAL ADVICE. Always consult with a physician before starting on any weight loss program, respect your nutritional requirements, and reduce food intake gradually for safe weight reduction.

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First, ask yourself: "WHY do I want to lose weight?"

If you're going to be successful in your weight loss efforts, you have to WANT to lose weight. The fact that you're on this website is already some indication that slimming down is what you desire. But intuition is easily overpowered by gastronomical urges, so it's important that you really take some time to become familiar with your true motivations -- so that you never forget what you're working towards and why. Find reasons that YOU personally want to lose weight -- the ways in which it will make your life better. Those reasons will provide motivation for you to make the long-term effort when you're facing the yummy stuff.

Here are a few of the reasons that motivated me:

• I wanted to look good... Yes, be honest with yourself -- this is a big motivator for many people. I don't want to be embarrassed to take my shirt off at the beach, or to go swimming when I'm on vacation. There are a lot of things we cannot control about our appearance because of genetics, but our weight is one that most of us can control. It's a simple fact that one is more attractive (in the eyes of most other people, given current cultural values) when they're at their healthy weight. And like it or not, "true love" seems to come a lot easier when you're looking good - and feeling good about yourself.
   
• I didn't want to die before living fully... There's no shortage of information about the health consequences of obesity and overeating, so I won't repeat it here. That stuff never really bothered me too much until I started to see more and more people my age suffering from heart-attacks and diet related diseases all the time. I never know when my time will come -- but I do know that it's never too late to improve my odds. Even if an early death didn't worry me, I've found that much of the wonderful experiences life has to offer are much more enjoyable when I'm not carrying around excess weight. Every day that I'm at a healthy weight is a day of life that I can live more fully than I would be able to otherwise.
   
• I didn't want to be a fool... If there's one thing that I've come to find extremely annoying, it's the manipulative marketing of fast food chains -- and that includes the big cafe chains that have made junk food (high fat or SUGAR) trendy. In my opinion, for the fast food industry to use advertising that links images of thin, attractive people having fun and making friends while eating garbage is pure deception. Sure, if we think about what we're watching we know the reality, but the fact is that most advertising is absorbed passively, and the marketers know it. In truth, we're little more than mental slaves to the profit seeking junk food peddlers. I simply didn't want to be their fat fool anymore -- I've wasted enough money enriching people who are trying to sell me something that they know is unhealthy. Overcoming bad eating habits is something that can bring self-respect.

Your reasons for wanting to lose weight might be similar to mine, or they might be completely different. Whatever they are, be sure to get clear on the reasons that are really motivating you. WRITE THEM DOWN. They will be integral components of your weight loss willpower going forward.
 

Next, correct your thoughts about weight loss

When considering what you're going to eat for a meal, do you find your decision making process to be a bit "weak"? If the conscious and logical part of your mind lacks the facts, it's going to get overpowered by simple urges quite easily and often. By taking some time to examine the ways in which you "think about eating", and correcting any false positive thoughts that you have passively accepted, you'll give your weight-rejecting willpower another boost . Please take a few minutes write down the correct any fictitious facts that your eating-urges are using against you:

Here are some examples:

Old false thought or perception -> New true thought or perception

• OLD BELIEF: Eating helps me to be social
   
  • CORRECTION: I can share meals with other people while controlling my food intake. Stuffing my face during a shared meal is quite unattractive.
     
• OLD BELIEF: I'm eating a normal amount of food to be healthy
   
  • CORRECTION: Regardless of how much I see other people eating, if I'm overweight them I'm taking in too many calories. I can get all my nutrients in less food.
     
• OLD BELIEF: I enjoy eating and I consider good food a sign of sophistication
   
  • CORRECTION: Having a focus on food is a sign of self-delusion, given that I'm obsessed with something that is killing me and ruining my appearance. There are many other things to enjoy in life that don't lead to becoming a glutton.
     

These are just a few thought adjustments examples. They may or may not be true for you -- and you'll probably have your own. Whatever the excuses are that you find yourself using in times of dietary decision making (should I have "this" or should I have "that"), take some time to become fully conscious of their reality so that your decisions take you where you want to go (away from that fat stomach, butt, etc).
 

Weight Loss (Mental) Exercises

Once you've clarified your personal reasons to lose weight and corrected any self-deceptive thoughts you hold about eating in general, you've laid the groundwork for reaching your goals. Now for the workout. The technique that follows consists of 4 mental exercises (again, this approach focuses on the mental aspect of weight management) that will guide you to your objective. Each one takes about 5 minutes, more or less. Please do not just read this information - you must practice the exercises in order to experience their effectiveness. I would suggest printing this page so that you can practice at least once or twice a day.

For all of the exercises, you should be in a seated position, in an area free from distractions. You should not practice these exercises while driving or operating machinery of any kind.
 

Mental Exercise #1:

Does some part of you want to eat something right now? Do you feel any craving or urges at all? If so, before you indulge, close your eyes and feel that sensation of "wanting" as clearly as possible. Find the actual physical sensation within you. Don't try to alter the feeling - just concentrate your awareness on it fully for a minute and let it be there. Let it be as it is and just observe it as it is. Then, using words, try to describe the physical characteristics of that energy. For example, you might say "craving you are a solid, heavy sensation in my chest area" - and so on. Use general words to describe the physical qualities of the feeling. Do this for a few minutes. Really try to get to know that sensation of your hunger as clearly as possible and accept it the way it is.

In performing this exercise, you are training yourself to be comfortable with the sensation, rather than rushing to "suppress" it with food. So many weight loss programs and pills put an emphasis on reduced cravings. But where have they gotten you? I have discovered that learning to be comfortable with and accept hunger sensations in this way is my most powerful tool for weight management. Ultimately, after practicing this technique for a week or so, try generating a feeling of appreciating and enjoying those hunger feelings -- learn to enjoy them while you appreciate the fact that those feelings mean you are burning more calories than you're taking in. Yes, those feelings are a good indication that you're starting to lose weight and look better -- so learn to love it! Whenever you find yourself about to make a "bigger butt/stomach" food decision, take a few minutes to engage this exercise. Turn inward, describe the sensation's characteristics, and become comfortable with it. Then make your eating decision -- either way you will have used the opportunity to increase your urge resistance and hunger tolerance. Practice this exercise regularly and you'll soon find that you're not so dependent on food to suppress minor hunger pangs.

This first exercise is, by far, the most important of the four. If you're only going to continue using one technique from the article, this should be it. If you'd like to take it further, check out MC2 Method audio program to learn more about the system that this is based on.
 

Mental Exercise #2:

For this exercise, grab your favorite unhealthy, fatty, or sugary food - yes, you are going to eat! But please read this whole paragraph before proceeding (I hope it's not too late :). First, take a small bite, and as you begin chewing, try to create a feeling of nausea within yourself. Really try to give yourself the sensation of sickness while associating the taste of the food with something that is harming your health like poison, and stealing your dreams. Now try to produce the gag reflex in the back of your throat as if you're going to throw up. Next, while the food is sliding down your throat, expand that sense of nausea within yourself. Come as close as you can to actually vomiting. Beyond the surface taste of the food, imagine what it's made of -- the butter that was squeezed out of a caged cow, all the fat that will stick to your arteries, the sugar that will be stored as fat under your skin, and so on. This process may seem a bit extreme, but the feeling that you're producing is probably more appropriate given the nature of the food than whatever feelings you currently have. Start to think of unhealthy foods like a waste product that lines your arteries with slime, layers your body with fat deposits, or does whatever you find revolting. Work on your ability to self-generate these more appropriate feelings whenever you're indulging in junk food, and soon your urges won't be what they once were. Since it's only an internal feeling that you're creating (you don't need to actually make yourself vomit), it's quite easy to practice this technique even while eating with other people. It won't be long before your body and mind start to re-associate low quality foods with a sense of illness rather than comfort, and your cravings for those foods will dissolve.
 

Mental Exercise #3:

This is another exercise in generating more appropriate emotional energies. For this one, take 30 seconds or so to self-generate each of the following emotional energies within yourself. Keep in mind that it is only the emotional sensations that matters -- so try to think too much (keep thought out of the process as much as possible):

1. Imagine that you are looking at an obese person or someone who is eating uncontrollably. Create within yourself a sense of sorrow for that person. Sorrow that they are destroying their body's ability to be fully active in life, sorrow that they have not found a way to be the attractive person that they would be happy with. Then create a sense of gratitude that you have. Then create a sensation of self-respect for your self.
    
2. Now, imagine that you're having lunch with an overweight friend or date, and they are having a much larger meal than they should. For purposes of no longer falling into the fat trap yourself, imagine yourself looking upon that person with the perspective that you're watching someone do something really foolish and tragic. Generate inner sensations of disgust while you watch them eat away at their chances of finding happiness, love, joy, good health, etc. Practice this exercise whenever you see an overweight person eating, and it will help you overcome the trap of "food jealousy". In your new mindset, being a light eater is the road to contentment, attractiveness, sexiness, self-respect, and all the things you REALLY want in life.
    
3. Imagine your fat friend telling you that you need to eat more, or that you're not eating enough, or that you're "too thin". Generate an internal emotion of annoyance with this person for trying to deceive you, and for anyone who encourages you to eat more than your intuition and best judgment knows you should. Then generate a sense of pride in your new ability to manage your hunger pangs and urges, while visualizing yourself practicing the hunger-tolerance and junk-food-disgust exercises whenever you're offered unwanted food.
    
4. For this last energy-generating exercise, create a list of all the positive attributes you desire for yourself and your life -- both physical and emotional. For example: "attractive", "strong willed", "masculine or feminine", "living fully", "enjoying life", "loved", "happy", and so. This list will vary for each person, so try to pick the qualities and conditions that really motivate you. Now, turn your awareness inwardly and congratulate yourself for becoming all of those things in part because of your successful weight loss efforts. Generate a real sense of self-respect and pride within yourself for becoming the person you desire as a result of your new eating habits. Then, generate a feeling of joy that you are becoming all of those things you desire because you have the mental skills and willpower to be a conscious and healthy eater. Then produce a feeling of high energy excitement about the new, strong, self-directed, food-rejecting, fully-living and life-loving person that you now are as a result of you lighter eating efforts. You're becoming a stronger person through this process, and you now see that the direct route to the life you desire is through lower-quantity, and better-quality, eating.
    

The point of all these exercise, even if they are a bit exaggerated, is to get your mind to re-associate excess-eating with something very negative, and better-eating with something very positive. If given the choice between finding true-love or eating a chocolate bar, which would you choose? There's actually a good chance that your odds of finding happiness will increase by making good eating decisions, so conditioning your mind this way provides quite a lot of value. Practice these exercises often, perhaps once before you go to sleep and again when you wake up. Also, when you find yourself with people who are overeating, or who are offering you food that you don't need, experiment with generating such internal feelings to see which ones help you to make the right decisions.

Conclusion

You are now equipped with some powerful weapons to protect yourself against the urges and cravings that having been undermining your weight loss efforts. Regardless of what goals you have for yourself, make better eating a real priority, and know that it's one of the most positive thing you can do to improve the quality of your life. Practice these exercises so that your skills will be well-honed when you need them -- and trust that your efforts will eventually prove to be well worth it.

I sincerely hope that you've find this information beneficial, and that some part of it helps you to find the body and life you desire. If you get a chance, I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions that you may have.

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Finally, this article is based on principles taught in the MC2 Method. If you've found any success in the approach, listen to the MC2 Method for more information that can really boost your efforts.

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