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Class OverviewThe PreDiet—Brain science researchers from Stanford University have proven a new key to losing weight and keeping it off that really works. Dr. Sean Sullivan calls the process “PreDieting.” In 10 step (Check out the Top 10 Big Ideas from the class below!) Your ProfessorDr. Sean Sullivan is a Harvard educated author, practicing clinical psychologist and Director at TheMindMaster.com. Dr. Sean teaches how to use the latest psychology and brain science to achieve your personal goals.How to Lose Over 30% More Weight by PreDietingYour brain ultimately controls what you want and what you do. So, the way to successfully lose weight and keep it off is to make intentional and sustained changes inside your brain. It takes 21 days to rewire your brain with basic new habits. So, Dr. Sean built a step-by-step process to walk with you for 21 days of applying the latest brain science to train you to master your weight loss strengths and obliterate your weaknesses—The PreDiet. When you train your brain correctly you actually want to eat and live differently. Your brain becomes extremely clear about how much you hate unhealthy food running your life. You come to see overeating, and foods that are bad for you, for what they really are—your enemies preventing you from feeling and looking good. You can create completely new brain patterns that enable you to healthily and sustainably lose the weight you choose to lose. “Dr. Sullivan is a game-changing new voice in the psychology of peak performance.”  – Mark Sanchez, NFL Quarterback The Top 10 Big Ideas1Admit it! Dieting on it’s own almost never works for long Did you know that 108 million Americans will diet this year? And on average, each dieter will try more than 4 diets during the year. That’s right, over 4 diets every year per dieter. Why? Because dieting alone almost never works. So you end up having to do it over and over. In fact, according to Dr. Leibel more than 90% of people who lose a lot of weight gain it back within 12 months. And, 95-98% gain it back, and often more, within 5 years. The good news is that we now know of something that works a whole lot better than dieting alone. PreDieting is preparing yourself before you begin any diet. And the first step of PreDieting is acknowledging to yourself that dieting alone is not going to work for very long.2Know exactly what you want Your will power may get you there. But if it’s only a number on a scale that you are after you are unlikely to maintain your goal weight for long. In fact, will power alone often does get people to their goal weight. But the weight of the world wears will power thin over time. If you know exactly what you want though—meaning, not just knowing your goal weight, but also knowing exactly how you want to be living your one precious life, you can work toward accessing a particular version of yourself rather than relying on will power forever. Strategically cultivating your BEST SELF, as defined by you, is what PreDieting is all about. Accessing your BEST SELF on demand makes you into a weight loss master.3Sustainable Life Change PreDieting is not so much about losing the weight as it is about really, really wanting to make a few real changes in your life so you end up living how you want to be living. Not everyone should be on a diet. If you are a healthy weight and you feel good about your body then you are just fine as you are. If you are heavier than you want to be and you feel like it might be related to not caring for yourself really well, then it’s worthwhile to address that issue. It’s worthwhile to begin taking good care of yourself. PreDieting is more about deciding how you will be taking great care of yourself for the rest of your life than it is about losing weight. It turns out that losing weight is just one outcome most people who decide to make a change to becoming more healthy experience when they go about it in the right way.4Notice and Forgive Yourself It’s much harder than most of us think it is to recognize whatever old story we may still harbor that left us wounded and that gets triggered at times. That’s because it is often hard to acknowledge that sometimes you feel that you don’t deserve to live as your BEST SELF— because of some limiting story that developed. Now it’s time to acknowledge and forgive. What I’ve learned from being a therapist is that when someone treats you as though you are worthy and deserving of love, you generally end up treating yourself much better. We tend to behave as we are treated. And that statement applies doubly for how we end up treating ourselves through INNER DIALOGUE. What you say to yourself inside your head is a main driver of whether you are able to consistently achieve your goal—whether that goal is losing weight or anything else. Learning to do that is not overly complicated, but it is just hard to remember to do consistently. That’s where PreDieting comes in—you practice before the pressures of dieting.5The “How”, Not The “What” Rather than telling you only “what” to do, PreDieting focuses you on noticing “how” you are being. That’s because seemingly small choices can create ongoing unintended consequence. For example, when you don’t get enough sleep because you make the decision to have an extra glass of wine, you end up staying up too late and then consuming more calories to keep you feeling awake the next day. In turn, you are less likely to feel like working out. You’ll also judge yourself at least a little.  Since small events in our lives set into motion chain of reactions that directs our weight gain and weight loss cycles, the core of PreDieting is establishing a habit of paying attention to how your INNER WORLD feels. When you notice how you are feeling internally as you make decisions you make a more conscious choices about what you want to do in each moment. But until you create the consistent habit of noticing how you feel throughout the day, it is almost impossible to make consistent real-time choices that are aligned with your weight loss goal. Noticing how you are feeling leads to making sustaining lifestyle changes.  6Embrace Your Busy Mind Meditation practitioners love to talk about silencing the mind by silencing thinking. I love to talk about the flood of energy and the rush of intentional life change that flows into you when you align yourself with your goal. Whenever your thoughts are strategically and intentionally aligned with your goal—meaning you know and have immediate access to why your weight loss goal is important to you—your brain structure is literally changing toward supporting your weight loss goal. When you PreDiet correctly, your naturally busy mind naturally cultivates a healthy life.7Prioritize A Well-Nourished Brain You need to have a well-nourished brain to PreDiet correctly. And your brain consumes 20% of your energy. That makes it very hard for a brain that is low in vitamin B12 or D or Omega 3 fats to generate feelings of satisfaction and happiness that help you maintain healthy habits. It’s also very hard to treat yourself kindly when you are not happy. When you struggle through losing weight by denying nutrients to your brain you end up feeling miserable the whole time. That’s a surefire formula for gaining the weight back after you hit your target. When you eat nutritiously though, your brain cells actually change in ways that support producing better moods which facilitate natural weight loss.  8Make Peace With The Scale When you PreDiet before you diet you train yourself not to feel guilty or alarmed when you go up or down a couple pounds. You do that by checking in with yourself using a skill called “paying relaxed attention” before you weight yourself. Then, you remind yourself that so long as you weigh within plus or minus three pounds of you initial PreDieting weight you should be feeling good about where you are. This process helps you realize that your body naturally ebbs and flows throughout the month. You know that one pound is not an issue. But when you go outside your three pound band you are training to use that moment as an opportunity to evaluate the sequence of events that led you to a larger than expected weight change. That’s how you train your brain for long-term change.9Tell Your Loved Ones There are always moments when you feel like not doing what you’d planned to do—even if you know that not following through will move you away from the life you want to live. So when you are truly ready to change, make your intention public to people who care about you! Telling the people you respect what you plan to do will automatically make you feel more accountable to following through with your expectation of yourself. You can even ask for support and encouragement from your “team” of loved ones. Doing so helps you structure your life strategically and so increases your likelihood of success.10Imagine exactly how you want your life to look next year every day PreDieting recognizes that your body is infinitely intelligent and resourceful. Take advantage of that gift by reminding your body how you want to live by providing your body with precise reminders about how you expect to live and feel. For example, take 10 minutes to imagine your family, your work, your spirituality and your health at the peak you can imagine each. By taking time each day to imagine yourself at your best in the key categories of your life you are providing your body an emotional roadmap to follow. When you provide your body with the right emotional cues, your body in turn strengthens the roadmap that keeps you oriented to your goal. Give your body clear instructions by speaking to it in its own language. Feed your body the emotional structure you want to be naturally reproducing each day. That’s how you PreDiet!