You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 12.

In the Weight Loss Arena, what are you doing doing right because where you put your focus

determines how well you'll do on any eating program. I'm your host

master weight loss coach and Author Cookie Rosenblum. Today we're going to talk all about focus, what it is, why it's important, where most of us put our focus and how to change.

Before I begin, I want to take just a moment to say thank you again to all of my

listeners. Thanks so much for subscribing and coming back each week. It is my intention to continue to give you all the same

concepts on this podcast that help my one-on-one clients so much. So keep coming back. And I'd be really grateful if you took a few

moments to leave a review or a rating on iTunes. So let's get started. What is

focus and why is it so important? Well focus is the

intentional placement of your energy on something, your mental energy. actually we have a lot of say in how we do it.

We think it's just something that happens automatically, but actually we have a lot of say

in how we do it. We're just not aware of it. So when you're learning something new,

you use a lot of focus, you use a lot of intentional thoughts.

When you're trying to lose weight or change the way you're eating, you focus more

clearly on what you're doing. But often what I see is that you focus on what's going wrong. You focus on what you don't want.

So you set goals, you try to do something, you may do it partially right,

and then you fail. but of course you fail because failing is

part of learning right there's nothing going wrong here but then you focus on the

failure and that's the big mistake But then you focus on the failure.

And that's the big mistake.

Remember how our thinking works.

Something happens.

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