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1. Thinking - If you are overweight, the fat is in your head. (meaning - develop a different mindset)
2. Desperation - Capacity to change is in direct proportion to the amount of felt desperation
3. Passion - Passion is what coal is to a locomotive: it empowers to action.
4. Strategy - Having a strategy is what tracks are to a locomotive: it gives the capacity to reach the destination.
5. Acknowledge - Three words will change your life: "I need help."
6. Humility - It's not about you.
7. Vision - I am able to see what I can become.
8. Ownership - I didn't create my body, and it doesn't belong to me. I am a steward of it. Therefore I will treat it accordingly.
9. Excuses - I can have excuses or I can have results, but I cannot have both.
10. Results - I chose to make decisions that yield results.
11. Decisions - I will pay attention to even the small, seemingly inconsequential decisions due to the fact that I am simply the cumulative impact of many "small decisions."
12. Change - I can change; I do not have to stay the same.
13. Skill - Due to my lack of will power, I will need to develop "skill power."
14. Records - Keeping accurate daily records is a way of saying I value life.
15. Parameters - Since I did not build adequate fences around my eating habits, well established parameters are my friend.
16. Exercise - I do not like exercise. But I love having exercised. I refuse to let the word "exercise" intimidate me any longer. I am an active person.
17. Pleasure - I can either have "pleasure now, and pain later," or I can have "discipline now, and pleasure later." But I can not have pleasure both now and then.
18. Discipline - Discipline gives me the dreams of my heart. Lack of discipline is a "dream-destroyer."
19. Consequences - Bad actions have bad consequences. Good actions have good consequences. I chose good consequences. Thus I chose good actions.
20. Momentum - Momentum is a friend that should be cherished and protected.
21. Leaning - I chose to learn - daily
22. Silence - In weight loss, I am not the teacher. I am the student. I will remain silent.
23. Opinion - This year, my goal is to have 20% fewer opinions.
24. Favorites - I will limit myself to those favorites that are not harmful to my goals.
25. Routine - In order to break from a destructive "rut," I am willing to accept the routine needed to establish new and healthy habits.
26. Variety - I will be sufficiently creative to discover variety within the parameters set around me.
27. Success - I will not allow my successes to set me up to fail.
28. Failure - I will not allow my failures to cause me to think I cannot succeed.
29. Affirmation - I accept the affirmations of others to encourage healthy habits.
30. Compliments - While I appreciate compliment from others, I chose to live my life by principles rather than by what others think of me.
31. Fear - Although I chose to avoid unhealthy fears, I embrace healthy fears that restrain me from doing those things that will ultimately harm me.
32. Criticism - When I am doing what is truly right and assuredly healthy for me, I will not react to, or be deterred by the criticism of others.
33. Endurance - I can outlast the problem I am overcoming.
34. Preferences - Preferences can be my friend, but I will not allow it to be my master.
35. Convictions - Preferences are something I live by; convictions are what I will die for.
36. Principles - Principles are to me what tracks are to a train.
37. Hope - Hope does for me what the flange on the train wheel does when the tracks curve: it holds me steady.
38. Hunger - I refuse to allow bodily hunger to rule my life.
39. Mind - My mind rules over my body.
40. Spirit - My spirit rules over my mind, which rules over my body.
41. Focus - I chose to fill my mind with wholesome thoughts that take me to healthy results.
42. Meditation - My spirit was created for thinking higher thoughts.
43. Ongoing - I accept the fact that I must always keep on "keeping on."
2. Desperation - Capacity to change is in direct proportion to the amount of felt desperation
3. Passion - Passion is what coal is to a locomotive: it empowers to action.
4. Strategy - Having a strategy is what tracks are to a locomotive: it gives the capacity to reach the destination.
5. Acknowledge - Three words will change your life: "I need help."
6. Humility - It's not about you.
7. Vision - I am able to see what I can become.
8. Ownership - I didn't create my body, and it doesn't belong to me. I am a steward of it. Therefore I will treat it accordingly.
9. Excuses - I can have excuses or I can have results, but I cannot have both.
10. Results - I chose to make decisions that yield results.
11. Decisions - I will pay attention to even the small, seemingly inconsequential decisions due to the fact that I am simply the cumulative impact of many "small decisions."
12. Change - I can change; I do not have to stay the same.
13. Skill - Due to my lack of will power, I will need to develop "skill power."
14. Records - Keeping accurate daily records is a way of saying I value life.
15. Parameters - Since I did not build adequate fences around my eating habits, well established parameters are my friend.
16. Exercise - I do not like exercise. But I love having exercised. I refuse to let the word "exercise" intimidate me any longer. I am an active person.
17. Pleasure - I can either have "pleasure now, and pain later," or I can have "discipline now, and pleasure later." But I can not have pleasure both now and then.
18. Discipline - Discipline gives me the dreams of my heart. Lack of discipline is a "dream-destroyer."
19. Consequences - Bad actions have bad consequences. Good actions have good consequences. I chose good consequences. Thus I chose good actions.
20. Momentum - Momentum is a friend that should be cherished and protected.
21. Leaning - I chose to learn - daily
22. Silence - In weight loss, I am not the teacher. I am the student. I will remain silent.
23. Opinion - This year, my goal is to have 20% fewer opinions.
24. Favorites - I will limit myself to those favorites that are not harmful to my goals.
25. Routine - In order to break from a destructive "rut," I am willing to accept the routine needed to establish new and healthy habits.
26. Variety - I will be sufficiently creative to discover variety within the parameters set around me.
27. Success - I will not allow my successes to set me up to fail.
28. Failure - I will not allow my failures to cause me to think I cannot succeed.
29. Affirmation - I accept the affirmations of others to encourage healthy habits.
30. Compliments - While I appreciate compliment from others, I chose to live my life by principles rather than by what others think of me.
31. Fear - Although I chose to avoid unhealthy fears, I embrace healthy fears that restrain me from doing those things that will ultimately harm me.
32. Criticism - When I am doing what is truly right and assuredly healthy for me, I will not react to, or be deterred by the criticism of others.
33. Endurance - I can outlast the problem I am overcoming.
34. Preferences - Preferences can be my friend, but I will not allow it to be my master.
35. Convictions - Preferences are something I live by; convictions are what I will die for.
36. Principles - Principles are to me what tracks are to a train.
37. Hope - Hope does for me what the flange on the train wheel does when the tracks curve: it holds me steady.
38. Hunger - I refuse to allow bodily hunger to rule my life.
39. Mind - My mind rules over my body.
40. Spirit - My spirit rules over my mind, which rules over my body.
41. Focus - I chose to fill my mind with wholesome thoughts that take me to healthy results.
42. Meditation - My spirit was created for thinking higher thoughts.
43. Ongoing - I accept the fact that I must always keep on "keeping on."
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