The 7 Powerful Whys to Losing Your Weight Without Dieting

ABC News recently interviewed a woman who lost 530 pounds without dieting, in exactly the fashion that Thin&Healthy’s Total Solution teaches. Before losing the weight, she didn’t leave her apartment for 12 years because it was hard for her to move around, and when she did go out, people stared and made fun of her. She felt depressed so she ate more and got heavier; her weight made her feel more depressed, so she ate more and got heavier, and the cycle just perpetuated.Even though she never left the house, she always had political interest. So she found some political chat rooms on the Internet and got involved in them. When she woke up in the mornings there would be messages for her, asking what she thought about different political subjects. And she realized the people in the chat rooms valued her opinion. They saw her worth because they could sense her intelligence and they wanted to know what she thought about things. She was very well respected by those people.

Now here is the key. She found herself looking forward to getting up in the morning. She found her self worth. In the process of doing the thing that gave her worth, she lost 530 pounds. She did not go, “Hey, I need to lose some weight. I’ve got to go on a diet.” It never happened.

This is exactly what we’ve been sharing with you for a while. Now we’re in the middle of a big mind shift because we are going to the next level. You’ve heard about the Victory Principle, you’ve certainly heard about Life Success, and I know you’ve heard about Never Ending Motivation. What we’ve talked about before and we’re going to talk about more today is the powerful why.

The woman on ABC had a powerful why. Note–it wasn’t to wear size 12. That’s not a powerful why. A certain size or a number on the scale is a temporary measuring device but it’s not a powerful why.

When it comes to weight loss, the food part is the least important part. When people grab me and ask what I mean by that, I say, “I couldn’t care less what you eat.” I care that you know why you want to lose because then you’ll lose. As a matter of fact, if you know why you want to accomplish the things you want to accomplish in life, you’ll do it without even having a plan.

When the why is powerful enough, the how is easy. We all get caught up in the how. What have we done in the weight loss industry for 30 years? Teach people how. Everybody found out it was a billion dollar business, so they got in the diet business supplying pills and shots and little cans and boxes of food.

It’s crazy! People eat it and they gain their weight back. But when the why is powerful enough they don’t gain their weight back. When the why is powerful enough, the how is easy.

Powerful Whys are what we call burning babies. Do you remember the story about the 2×6 board suspended across the gap between two 30-story buildings? What’s going to make you go across that 2×6? It’s going to be something that you love, something that matters to you.

All of a sudden, you find out the thing you thought really mattered, isn’t important enough to make you cross that gap. The thing that really matters is the thing that’ll take you to the other building. If the building on the other side of that 2×6 is on fire and your baby is over there, you WILL get across that board. That’s your powerful why.

There are only seven powerful whys, ever, only seven. They don’t go in any particular order, but I will share them with you now. The first one is family. That doesn’t mean family is the first one, just that one of them is family. Your powerful why is family if every single decision you make, doing the difficult things that you don’t want to do, you do anyway, to benefit your family.

Yours may not be family. I adore my children. I am head over heels in love with the man I have been married to for over 17 years. I am crazy about my family and my family is not my burning baby. When I present this to people, they’ll go, “Well it should be my family,” and they feel guilty if it’s not. When Marcia and I talked about it for the first time, she thought it needed to be family or she was a bad person. If yours isn’t family that doesn’t mean you don’t adore your family. Try not to say these in a certain order of importance.

My sister-in-law’s powerful why is family. Everything she does, every decision she makes, every thought that goes through her mind, every e-mail she sends, every hour she works (because she works a job she hates) she does it for her family, for the future of her family, and to keep her family together. I do all those things too but it’s not my powerful why.

The second powerful why is health, meaning all of the decisions you make are to have better health. Everything you do, everything you find yourself interested in, is about getting better medical reports, taking fewer prescriptions, wanting to have longevity, extend the length of your life, disease prevention, getting rid of pain. If that’s what you find yourself really focused on and really being involved in then your powerful why, your burning baby, is health.

Your may want to get off all the meds, or you may have been told by your doctor that you better lose weight or you’re going to die. Your powerful why might be health but it also might not be. Your burning baby is not what the doctor told you it should be. Your burning baby is your burning baby.

My husband’s powerful why is health. John has had cancer four times. Two of them, he was told he was going to die. Every decision he makes, everything he eats, everything he thinks about, all the stuff he reads and teaches is about health. He loves me but family is not his number one powerful why. Health is the reason he does everything he does, and because he’s healthy, he’s here for me and he can love me. You get it? They work together.

The third one is experiences. If you know you want to climb mountains, swim in oceans, go visit the Sphinx in Egypt or whatever the case might be, and you want to have that experience and journal and write down what you saw, and the smells you smelled, and things that took place, and you want to share your experience with other people, you’re all about experiences. That’s definitely John Goddard and it’s also Jim Rohn’s. He’ll tell you to eat a Maui onion in Maui. Have a Manhattan in Manhattan. Jim Rohn’s powerful why is all about having experiences.

The fourth one is your calling or your destiny. If that’s everything you think about, if that is every decision you make, your powerful why is based upon your calling or your anointing. If it’s in your thought all the time and it determines every action you take, yours is calling or anointing.

My powerful why is my calling. Everything I do and every move I make is about that. It’s not even conscious. Sometimes it is, but it’s always in my subconscious, directing my actions. I’m not here by accident and I know it. I know every situation that occurs is not by accident; there’s a reason. That gives me some trust, gives me some peace, and moves me forward.

The fifth one is God. Now, if your powerful why is God, everything you think about, and everything that’s on your heart is to honor Him. You may be thinking, “What does that have to do with weight loss?” A person whose powerful why is God knows that their body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and they want to take care of it.

Let me be very blunt and transparent right now. Do you know any poor Christians? Yep. Do you know overweight Christians? Uh huh. Do you know any unhappy, or even downright miserable Christians? So what do we have? Poor, fat and miserable. Now there’s a magnet everybody wants to be around.

When someone has honoring God as their powerful why, they know that being poor, overweight and unhappy is not what being around God is all about. They know that health, abundance, energy, fun, hope and prosperity are what happen when God is truly the focus of your life. It’s an amazing world we live in and guess what that attitude is? That’s a magnet to draw people into hope. If that’s what drives you, drawing people into that hope, God is your powerful why.

The sixth one is self worth. It holds more power than anything else if you’re going to achieve what you were born for. Self worth is confidence and I can tell you right now that most people’s powerful why is worth. It’s confidence building. Most people really need to build their confidence or their self worth in order to accomplish what they were created to accomplish.

Number seven is making a positive difference in the world or promoting social reform. This powerful why is huge. It’s not, “Oh gee I’ve had this little thought of making a positive impact.” Everything starts with one step at a time, sure, but your vision is huge.

Your powerful why may change, but they don’t change very often. You have big, huge spans of time in your life but you’ve usually got one powerful why going on. Back many years ago, I’m certain my powerful why was family because I didn’t know how I was going to feed my kids. Then my powerful why became worth. I spent years and years needing to build my confidence. To a certain degree, mine is still worth.

It’s all about character, who you are. You have to be before you can do and you have to do before you can have. Our company goal is now to help members BE. You see, if they become who they were intended to become, they’ll do what they need to do and they’ll have what they need to have. In our case, that goal is a healthy body, but we’re going to help them be.

That’s what worth is about, your being, thinking the way you need to think in order to achieve what you need to achieve. That’s an indication if yours is worth or not. Do you have a total grip on thinking the way you need to think in order to achieve what you need to achieve? No negative stuff allowed–no lies going on in there. If there are lies and some negative stuff, yours is being–yours is worth.

Those are the seven. You have one. You just have to sit yourself down and decide which it is. That doesn’t mean you’re a bad person or the other powerful whys don’t matter.

After mine was worth for years and years, it very much became to honor God. I wanted to honor God with my words, my company, my family, my money, my body, everything I did, and that determined every decision I made.

Depending on your faith system, you might think, “If I find another powerful why, ‘m not honoring God anymore?” Let me tell you what I figured out. My powerful why became moving in my anointing. If I am not moving in my anointing, I’m not honoring God. That doesn’t mean what I just said is the rule for you. You need to figure out which powerful why is really your motivator.

When you figure it out, it’ll push you. It gets behind and it pushes you toward everything you need to do. Your powerful why is about being, it is about how you think. It’s about your behavior. It’s about what goes on inside of you. It will push you to do the things you need to do.

What’s your powerful why?

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