A Guide to Good Health: Using the Secret for Weight Loss

Have you ever lost weight only to regain it months later? Does good health seem elusive because you can't stick to a healthy eating plan? The Secret, a movie and book by Rhonda Byrne, claims that this is because a focus on weight loss actually attracts weight to your body. With extra weight comes health problems and an increased focus and awareness of these problems. This increased focus does nothing more than push that elusive good health even further away.

The basic premise of The Secret is that we live in a universe that operates within the laws of attraction. What that means is that everything we have in our life, we have attracted. This includes our extra weight and our health problems. From this, it becomes evident that if we want to lose weight and maintain good health, we should change our thinking.

There are many things we say to ourselves every day that attract more weight and poor health to our bodies. In order to overcome our issues, we need to rewrite our internal dialogues. Here are some common sayings and alternatives that you can use to change your dialogue.

I am on a low carbohydrate diet.

Many people follow specific diet plans, such as the low carbohydrate Atkins diet or South Beach diet, low sugar diets or low fat diets. If you find a diet or healthy eating plan that works for you, then stick with it. But, often the dialogue that goes hand in hand with these diets is self-defeating. Some people announce to the world that they are avoiding carbs, sugar or fat. They tell themselves that they are addicted to these things and have trouble resisting them. These are their problem foods.

What they actually are doing is focusing on these foods and attracting more of these types of foods to their body. They may use will power for a few weeks and successfully follow the eating plan, but sooner or later, the cravings for these irresistible foods will take over. How many times have you dieted in this manner, only to go off the diet and end up overdoing it on the forbidden food?