[dalante]

2 days ago and yesterday, I posted on this forum about weight loss. I was following up on steve's podcast "faster goal achievement," in which he said that in order to achieve your goals faster, you can help yourself by already implementing a side effect of your goal in your life. For example, since he's set a goal to be a millionaire, he started to carry a bigger amount of cash (like millionaires would probably do) and that helped him get into the millionaire mentality.

I started thinking about how the life of a thin person is and I had an idea, which I posted on this forum, expecting to trigger hundreds of replies of thank yous and bravos. The reality didn't meet 1% of this expectation; I realized I wasn't convincing enough.

My idea is that thin people wear clothes that fit thin people.

For my height and body composure, if I was at my ideal weight, I would be a medium. I've lost some weight in the past few years, so I can comfortably wear Large clothes. But in my wardrobe, there are still some XL shirts, from my fatter days, and this is what I find incongruent with weight loss. And if I loose more weight, the L shirts will be incongruent as well. Moreover, if I loose more weight, I won't be able to dress myself, since I only have a couple of medium shirts. Therefore, I need to adjust my wardrobe.

My first objective is to donate to charity all my XL clothes, to take them out of my wardrobe.

My second idea is to fill my wardrobe with shirts and trousers of my ideal size (but also keep the ones that fit me right now).

The reason why I am so convinced about my idea, is that it triggered a "vision" in me, i.e. a short flash in my mind of what I would look like when I'm thin. This has never happened to me before.

Over the past couple days, I have been wearing my two medium shirts and since they are just a little too tight, that got me thinking: wow, I still have some way to go to look good in this shirt. I have also tried to put on smaller trousers and I couldn 't get into them.

Wearing those medium shirts made me realize that thin people don't settle with being overweight. If a thin person put on 2 kilos, he immediately thinks: wow, I gotta do something about it... that is probably because they can fel it when the belt or the shirt is too tight. Years ago, I was 40 kilos overweight... Now, I am "only" 15 kilos overweight... so I settled with that, since I already lost 25. Wearing a medium shirt made me realize: you can't stop there, you are still overweight.

Whereas, when I wear my L shirts, my body feels pretty satisfied and, if intellectually I know I should loose more weight, I don't feel like it.

Much like Steve's experiment made him think: 17,000$ is actually not that big, my two day trial made me think: 15 kilos is still a lot!!

This week end, when I have some time, I will implement my changes and follow up with this experiment here. Note that this experiment still requires dieting and exercizing... but I claim that the wardrobe experiment will give the motivation to do those two things.

So I will keep you posted, and I hope some people will join, whatever your current size and your dream size are.