Losing Weight: A Hero's Journey

You want to lose weight... yet again. You look in the mirror and you know full well that the reflection back to you does not represent who you really are in any way whatsoever. Deep inside, you're a completely different person. "How did I manage to get like this? This isn't me!"

The most dramatic thing is that you've tried to lose weight. For perhaps the last 5, 10 or even 20 years. And who knows, have you been on a diet since you were a child? And yet, still today, after all that effort, you are still living with this extra weight.

Yes, in the past you may have managed to lose weight, but after every attempt, you've gained back every pound you'd lost, and maybe even a few more. Why?

You've tried everything, but you haven't succeeded in "really" losing weight

You've tried everything-diets, high-intensity training programs-to lose weight fast in order to "run away" as quickly as possible from this image of yourself your mirror is reflecting back to you.

So, why is any of this still not working? You go from diet to diet and one disappointment to another. "Tell me why this isn't working for me. Help!!"

Perhaps you've reached the point where you can no longer bear starvation and training to exhaustion. You're at wits' end. But, you want to lose weight and every single message you hear can be summed up as "eat the lowest number of calories and push the training machine to the max." So, you listen. After a little break, you get a second wind of motivation and slide back down the road to hell. You starve yourself and train to exhaustion.

And, once again, nothing works. Why not?

Because no one has yet told you the truth. Deprivation and high-intensity exercise actually make your body resistant to weight loss. The only strategy that works is to find the life balance that will transform your metabolism.

However, this life balance is nothing spectacular. It is basically 2 things: you have to eat to lose weight and train at low intensity. I can hear you now. You're thinking: "That's just too easy, that can't possibly work." Well, you're wrong. It works, but it certainly isn't easy.

The real goal of losing weight!

Why isn't it easy? Because the real goal of losing weight is to reach a healthy weight and to maintain it for the rest of your life. This is the one and only true definition of the expression "losing weight."

To reach a healthy weight and maintain it for the rest of your life, you will have to acquire new knowledge, let go of your old beliefs, adopt new behaviours and repeat them day after day for the rest of your life. Therefore, to succeed, you will have to change your lifestyle.

The transformation of your body

Losing weight isn't a simple question of achieving lower readings on your bathroom scale. Losing weight is a long journey that involves inner transformation, learning and self-mastery that ultimately leads to transformation of your body.

Losing weight is a task that reveals who you are and who you can become. Losing weight is the reflection of a deep human dimension, namely your ability to change, your capacity for the kind of inner transformation that will inevitably lead to outer transformation.

This book will take you on an unprecedented journey. A journey in which you will analyze yourself, confront your thoughts and behaviours, acquire knowledge about how your metabolism works, apply new weight-loss strategies, adopt new behaviours, plan for long-term success, develop self-mastery, accept to lose weight intelligently and, lastly, change your lifestyle.

Yes, losing weight is a colossal undertaking. You may not want to hear this, but it's the truth, and it's brutal. On the positive side, armed with the required knowledge and tools, everything becomes possible.

Now, it's up to you to decide whether you want to become the hero in your own life.