The secret to taking it off and keeping it off forever
(that even weight loss professionals don’t know)

From the Creator of Ontological Weight Loss (O.W.L.): Your Once-in-a-Lifetime Solution

The Problem:
Statistics show that people who lose weight will gain some or all of it back; usually they regain even more! This is true even for people who have had weight loss surgery. It’s frustrating, demoralizing, and disheartening for the weight loss clients as well as for health professionals and coaches. Statistics also show that the majority of people in the United States are now either overweight or obese, attributing to a rise in related health issues.

We usually address nutrition and exercise. We are experts in the “how to” do it, with action steps, food programs, exercise plans, and accountability structures. We may stick to our program for a while until something happens and we’re off program and back to our old sabotaging habits. Inevitably results include guilt, shame, or resignation. Maybe we summon willpower and start over…or we give up. Regardless, the pattern repeats itself.

And since obesity is a progressive pattern, it gets worse. The problem is that nutrition and exercise are only two of the three legs of the weight loss tripod, and it falls over without the third leg: ontological sabotage patterns.

The Secret – Ontological Sabotage Patterns:
Since I train weight loss coaches to build 6-figure businesses, this information comes from our 9-Week Training Intensive, “Become the Ultimate Weight Loss Coach: Unconscious sabotages every coach needs to know so clients can drop the weight forever” and from our “Ontological Weight Loss (O.W.L.) Coach Certification & Training Program.” www.JanisPullen.com

Ontology is the study of the whole human being, including beliefs, perspectives, judgments, both unconscious and conscious mindsets, thought processes, and emotional triggers. O.W.L. Weight Loss Signature System identifies nine sabotage patterns in overweight people. Since how we do one thing is how we do everything, these sabotages also emerge in areas of money, relationships, and career. My weight loss clients improve their relationships and their financial/career simultaneously while losing weight because they apply the sabotage shifts to other areas of their lives.

Sabotage patterns usually emerge in multiples of two or three at a time. They may be conscious or subconscious. The nine sabotage patterns can be related to food or movement, or they can be unrelated.

Sabotage Pattern #2: A relatable sabotage pattern is a mindset called Sacrifice/Entitlement, also known as Deprivation/Indulgence.

• Example 1 – Holidays: We feel entitled and indulge ourselves with food and inactivity, followed by sacrifice/deprivation in January with a rigid diet and exercise program.
• Example 2 – Diet mentality: We stick to our diet for two weeks with the mindset of sacrifice/deprivation. Then we binge or falls off the program altogether with the mindset of entitlement/indulgence.
• Example 3 – Skipping meals: We skip breakfast or lunch (sacrifice/deprivation), then eat throughout the evening (entitlement/indulgence).
• Example 4 – Exercise: We over-exert ourselves one day (sacrifice) and use it as an excuse to skip the next day (entitlement).
• Example 5 – Hard work day: We have worked hard and been stressed during the day (sacrifice), so we “deserve” to have a few glasses of wine or dessert to compensate (entitlement).

The context for the sacrifice/entitlement sabotage pattern is “all or nothing, either/or.” The mindset is “I deserve this because I did that.” Or the reverse – “Because I did that, I now can’t have that.” All sabotage patterns, whether conscious or subconscious, destroy any chance of long-term, sustained weight loss and maintenance.

The Transformational Shift:
In our 9-Week Training Intensive, “Become the Ultimate Weight Loss Coach” and our “O.W.L. Coach Certification & Training Program,” coaches learn all nine sabotage patterns and their corresponding shifts. Here are tips to shifting Sabotage #2:

1. Presence and Awareness Notice what is happening, and distinguish it as a pattern, not just a random set of behaviors. Simply recognizing the pattern begins our journey to balance and health. Presence and awareness practiced daily helps my clients drop weight without changing anything else.
2. How you do one thing is how you do everything. When someone starves/binge with food, they usually starve/binge with spending, finances, relationships, and other areas. Distinguishing our sabotage patterns in one area and learning how to transform them benefits other areas simultaneously.

Summary:
In achieving and maintaining optimum weight, we must consider this vital area – Ontological Weight Loss. In distinguishing the Nine Sabotage Patterns and transforming them, not only will our weight drop, but we enjoy benefits in all other areas.