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nonsuccess. When you don’t lose weight, you are forced to reassess your commitment and behavior. Without the scale, you can live in denial, which you may have done in the past. That’s why it’s your second BFF. (I have a secret strategy to hold you accountable to your daily weigh-ins that I will share with you in chapter 9–an easy technique that can have an enormous impact on your results.)
    Let me give you another example. I am a resource speaker for Vistage International, the largest CEO think tank in the world. I travel all over the world presenting to these CEOs, many of whom are entrepreneurs and highly educated, successful people. When I ask the members to describe their goals for health, weight, and energy levels, with virtually 95 percent consistency the breakfast-skippers struggle with weight. The reason I bring up this point is that, even with the research that I will share with you in chapter 2, which finds that breakfast is essential for weight loss, their belief systems remain intact with excuses like “I’m too busy,” or “I’m not hungry.” They aren’t willing to change, even when presented with overwhelming proof that breakfast and weight loss go hand in hand. It’s baffling how these highly educated people, who rely upon research, facts, and numbers, refuse to change.
     
    Hunger only for breakfast . The only time you should feel hunger is first thing in the morning, after you have fasted for eight or more hours, depending on how long you slept and if you ate something close to bedtime. If you continually skip breakfast, your body just stops asking for it and you don’t feel hungry. Once you start eating breakfast every single day (I don’t want you to skip even one), you will feel hungry each morning but far less hungry later in the day. It’s simply another example of how your belief that you don’t need to eat breakfast translates into your behavior. You decide that you are not going to eat breakfast, and your body follows the wrong message. Eat breakfast–please !
    If there is one of the seven behaviors listed above that you have already identified as problematic, then I urge you to start working on adjusting your belief system in that area now. Don’t wait. If you can identify your biggest stumbling block first, you will then have more time to devote to the necessary changes.
    This is imperative for you as a Petite, because you do not possess the same margin for error that taller women do. Your body requires fewer calories each day and must possess a productive, high-powered metabolism. Each of these factors is proven to result in weight loss and must be honored. I can’t make you change the behavior required if I can’t change that stubborn belief system that disagrees with and ultimately sabotages your chance of success.
Taking Control
     
    From this page forward, I want this to be your mantra:
     
• My belief system has been flawed. I now believe that selfish is good!
     
• My new belief system will lead to new behaviors that reinforce placing myself first.
     
• My new beliefs and behaviors will make me much more energetic, productive, and calm. My stress levels will diminish and that will benefit everyone around me, because I made the decision to place myself first.
     
• My new beliefs will enable me to lose weight and keep it off!
     
    Just saying these things will make you feel better and, with repetition, you will really start to believe them and live them.
    It’s a bit like believing you can “live your best life,” which has been Oprah’s message for years. Only with that belief intact can you actually start to “live your best life.”
    Your homework, starting today, is to plan just five minutes to focus on yourself. In those five, pre-determined minutes–yes, plan them–I want you to:
     
1 . Think about what you are going to eat for the rest of the day and tomorrow.
     
2 . Plan when you are going to exercise in the coming week. You just need three