Weight Loss from the InsideOut

By Kim Olver

You will learn Choice Theory, the new psychology of personal freedom, as an explanation for why you do what you do---no matter what is behind your weight issue, this theory can provide a framework for understanding. How many times have you attempted to lose weight only to gain it and more back again? Are you tired of being on a diet? Wonder what makes this program different? Well, in the first place, it is done in the privacy of your own home at your own pace. You decide when to complete the next lesson. This program does not focus on the number on the scale. It is about what you tell yourself and the habits in which you engage. Most weight loss programs fail because you are still having thoughts and behavior that support your bad habits. This program will help you change that. You will learn the psychology and physiology about weight loss. Along with this knowledge comes a decision for you to make---what are you going to do with this new knowledge? You will explore your past successes, your food triggers and the thoughts you tell yourself. You will learn ways to reprogram your mind for long lasting change. This program can help you become more satisfied when you look in the mirror. You will be able to visualize the end result from the beginning. You will find the right and healthy weight for yourself and be happy when you accomplish it. You will have more energy and a more positive outlook on life. Give it a try. How can you lose?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kim Olver
• Release date: Sep 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9780982754948

Kim Olver

Kim Olver, M.S., LCPC, NCC, BCC, sums up the goal of her work as helping people get along better with the important people in their lives, including themselves, at home and at work. She is a licensed clinical professional counselor, certified in Choice Theory and Reality Therapy and the author of Secrets of Happy Couples. Kim is the creator of the Choice Coaching program, and the founder and president of Coaching for Excellence, LLC. She also serves as the Executive Director of William Glasser Institute-US and William Glasser International.

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Weight Loss from the InsideOut

Copyright 2011 by Kim Olver

Smashwords Edition

InsideOut Press

Chicago, Illinois

Copyright © Coaching for Excellence, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

This eBook includes our Weight Loss from the InsideOut Action Book at the end of the ebook. The Action Book contains all the worksheets necessary to complete each chapter and can be purchased separately. If you wish to have a printable workbook, a downloadable PDF of the Weight Loss from the InsideOut Action Book, it is available for purchase at http://www.kimolver.com/actionbooks.php for only $1.99.

Please note that this ebook was originally written as an ecourse providing one lesson per week for twelve weeks.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Basic Needs

Chapter Two: Quality World Pictures

Chapter Three: What do You Want?

Chapter Four: What Are You Currently Doing to Get It?

Chapter Five: How’s It Working?

Chapter Six: When Have You Been Successful in the Past?

Chapter Seven: What Things Do You Tell Yourself?

Chapter Eight: Affirmations/Reprogram

Chapter Nine: What Are Your Food Triggers?

Chapter Ten: What Would You Have to Give Up?

Chapter Eleven: What’s the MOST Important?

Chapter Twelve: Plan

Chapter One: Basic Human Needs

Hi, welcome to your first lesson in the 12-week home study course on losing weight. You may be wondering what my background is in the field. I have a Master’s degree in Counseling and am certified in the process of Reality Therapy (RT) and Choice Theory (CT). During the next 12-weeks, I plan to teach you about RT and CT so that you can first gain some insight into all human behavior, your weight loss issues specifically, and then make some decisions about your plan of action. I know if you finish this course to the end, you will be able to look at weight loss from a different angle that will make a difference in your life.

The main thing you need to know is that I completely respect your right to make your own decisions and to do things your own way. I will make suggestions along the way but the final decision is yours. You are the one who must live with the choices you make, not me. My main goal is to simply provide you with information you may not otherwise have, support you in your decisions and hold you accountable for the things you say you want.

You may want to get a notebook or a folder for the lessons and worksheets you will be receiving with this home study course. It will help you to stay organized and to keep everything associated with these lessons in one place.

I want to start by talking about the five basic human needs that Dr. Glasser talks about in RT and CT. Your comprehension of the basic needs is crucial to your understanding of why you do the things you do. Dr. Glasser says we are born with these needs. We all have them---they are genetically programmed at birth. However, each of us experiences these needs to varying degrees. First, let me tell you what they are.

The first need is mostly physiological and it is called the need to survive, or the survival need. Of course survival involves such things as food, air, shelter, health and reproductive sex (for survival of the species) but it also encompasses such things as feeling safe and secure, which is more psychological than physiological.

A person who has a high need for survival is quite uncomfortable with change, likes to be prepared for any eventuality, doesn’t typically buy on credit but pays cash for purchases, is mainly one who likes to save and is a person who doesn’t take many risks.

On the other hand, a person with a low need for survival generally lives in the moment, can accommodate change quite well, is not concerned with debt, is more of a spender than a saver and likes to take risks.

Think of where you are on a scale of 1-5, with one being low survival and five being high survival. Record your number on the Needs Strength Profile provided in your Weight Loss from the Inside Out Action Book.

The second need is called love & belonging. I think of it as our need to be connected to other people. This would encompass our need for intimacy, time with friends, our connection to family, the drive we have to belong to different groups and how much we want to be liked and to minimize conflict.

People with a high need for love & belonging tend to crave intimacy with a life partner. They generally like to be physically close and enjoy a high degree of intimacy. Those high in love & belonging may have a lot of friends or a few very close friends but they enjoy their relationships with others. They are comfortable with people they know best and uncomfortable with conflict of any kind.

People with a low need for love & belonging do not require this type of closeness or time with others. They generally like to spend more time alone and have difficulty understanding the point of increased intimacy.

Think of where you are on a scale of 1-5, with one being low love & belonging and five being high love & belonging and record this number on the Needs Strength Profile provided.

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The third need is called power but I like to think of it