When mood leads the way, all your goals and strategies fall into perfect alignment, and they just follow from the mood. In this way, your mood (read: emotional state) organizes your thinking and determines the actions you will take. It’s the old idea that mood determines your mindset.
So what’s this mean for a woman who wants to lose some weight? Does she have to be in the right mood? You bet she does. And what is the right mood? Well, let’s see how you would answer this.
What’s the right mood for you?
Is it a state of blissful ignorance? Probably not.
Is it wide-eyed wishfulness? Probably not.
Is it being unrealistically optimistic? Probably not.
What about going to the opposite end of the spectrum to deadly serious? Probably not.
So what’s the right mood for you to be in to align your weight-loss stars?
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