Self-Discipline to Diet

By Steven Hopkins

Do you want to be the best version of yourself? 
Do you want to have more self-discipline to stick to your diet? 
Do you want to prove to everyone who ever doubted you that you can have an amazing body?

Where other dieting books fail, this one will not only give you the confidence to begin your dieting journey, but also teach you tips and tricks to develop the self-disciplined mindset necessary for successful weight loss. 
Use my unique experience, simple tips and easy to understand advice, and you'll conquer your goals together with me as your diet coach.


This book will teach you:
- The importance of losing weight for the important reasons.
- How you can avoid temptations and remove them from your life, permanently.
- What and how to eat in order meet your weight loss goals.
- How to maintain your motivation when you want to give up.
- Tips and tricks for strengthening your willpower, and overcome the things that usually end your diet.
- How to end your cravings with clever suggestions and tricks.
- How to keep going when you hit the weight loss plateau.
- How to develop the mindset to stick to your diet.
 

You don't have to just dream. Get the book and make your dreams your reality!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven Hopkins
• Release date: May 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393970941

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Introduction

First of all, let me point out that this is not just another book telling you that you’re a hopeless mess and that your only salvation will be from trimming down and looking the way everybody wants you to. Instead, this is a book that is dedicated to the most important things in your life: your health and well-being. I’m not going to go over the latest diets fads and talk them up, or discourage you. What I am going to do is give you the necessary tools and mindset so you can achieve the discipline necessary to stick to a diet and see it through.

You know that dieting, exercise and losing weight are important, and it sounds so trite, but they’re important not only for your physical well-being, but also so you can have a sound state of mind. Always remember that people who have the right amount of weight for their frame are generally happier than people who are overweight. Yes, the information in this book will help you to lose weight and become a healthier person, and that is important, but it is also important to ensure that you are happy. And I mean genuinely happy as a person, and happy with your life. Not just happy because food is making you happy. It’s easy to become trapped in a cycle of becoming depressed about your weight, and then comfort eating to feel good. Comfort eating is a very short-term solution to what could be a terminal problem.

Depression is something that more and more people are suffering from within our society, but it is the overweight in our society who particularly suffer from it. Happiness isn’t a switch that we can flick from 0 to 1. It is something that needs to be developed and nurtured, and a fundamental part of this is your good health. I’m not saying that being in rude health will automatically make you happy. Skinny people aren’t always brimming with the joys of life either, but feeling healthy and free of greasy food and toxins will make you happier. I want you to be happy, I want you to look amazing and that’s why I have written this book.

We’ve all been in the same boat before where we want to do something with all our heart. Maybe it is something that will better our lives, maybe it is something that we know will be difficult and arduous to achieve. There has been something that has held us all back from doing something that we know would make us feel so good and positive about ourselves. Yes, we’ve all been there and I know what it is like to be in a situation where you are doubting yourself, doubting your abilities and telling yourself that you should just stick to what you know. It’s always tempting to play it safe, but nothing ever gets done when we don’t take risks and push ourselves beyond our comfort zones.

But why should you listen to me? After all, who am I to be lecturing others on how they can achieve this or that, and what the importance of it is? Well, let me tell you my story. I’m a normal person like you, I didn’t have any special insight into the human mind, or why we do the things that we do. I just worked my dull office job and went home every night to an empty apartment where I’d sit around and play video games with my buddies, drinking beer and eating food that was frankly terrible for me.

I had no one to share my life with and that meant that I had no one to look good for. I simply didn’t have to make an effort, and so, like a lot of guys, I didn’t. I just did the basics required for work. I’m not ashamed to admit that I was a slob, because I got past that phase of my life.

I had lost weight before, and to reward myself I had given myself a break from my diet, but it usually wasn’t long before I found myself piling on the weight again. So the fact that I was keeping the weight off was unheard of for me, but I didn’t just wake up one day with a whole new attitude, it was something that I had to develop and for that, I have to thank my self-discipline mentor. It will sound unlikely, but I really did meet her on a train. It was the same train that she and I took home every day after work, but one day we happened to sit next to each other and we got to talking. It was a chance encounter that would change my life and set me on the course to a healthier and