What you believe about yourself, is what you become. The thoughts you believe in your mind and the feelings you carry in your heart have a great impact on your ability to lose weight and become fit. The words you say to yourself will shape the way you believe. Your word has the power to change your life.

Taking control over your life can begin with daily affirmations. Affirmations super charge the brain and make the connection between body, mind and soul. When you focus on positive thoughts and actions, your brain picks up on these thoughts and sets about a path to make them happen. That’s why it is important to focus on positive thoughts and shut out the negative ones.

Affirmations allow you to take control over your eating habits and keep you motivated to not only stick to an exercise program, but to excel in your fitness goals. Your mind will actually listen to and feed off these daily commands and you will soon see the results of your efforts.

If you believe it, you can achieve it. And that’s the hardest part of the challenge. Affirmations aren’t just empty words that you say in front of a mirror. You must believe in the affirmations that you are repeating in order for them to work. Your mind must be able to make a connection with what you are saying and what it encounters daily. If it is filled with self-doubt, you must quiet these doubts and convince your brain that what you are telling it— is happening.

It’s happening in the here and now, not far off in the future. Keep control over your thoughts by not letting your mind stray into planning for a future event. Stay focused on what is happening right now and the changes taking place every day. Your body is stronger than it was yesterday. You are more confident than you were last week. You are living with less stress than you were a month ago. You are living a healthy lifestyle and loving every minute.

Daily affirmations are one of the easiest and most economical ways to lose weight and keep that weight off. Keeping a firm focus on your goals and making those goals a reality are the foundation of a healthy lifestyle.

Living a life of gratitude and focusing on the positive will bring about monumental changes in your own life. Allow this way of living to transcend from the spiritual to the physical. Love, honor and respect your body. If you truly love your body then you can expect it to love you back.