I started having the most success with Ideal Weight once I started seeing body image as fluid and the tape as a way of moving that fluidity
up or down.
That is to say, I ran the scenario of me being at an ideal weight, and wanting to add more muscle, and realizing that I could increase my weight by 1% per week as a goal. When I did that, the idea of "Weight Loss" and "Ideal Weight" became seperate in my mind, and I was no longer trying to loose weight the same way one might loose one's car-keys, one's parents, one's girlfriend or one's mind. I'm no longer loosing anything (except hair). I'm adjusting weight. And, in doing that, I am not loosing, but rather surrendering without defeat, surrendering and winning at the same time.
Changing the focus from "loosing weight" to "gaining back my body" has made a tremendous amount of difference. It took multiple listenings, and many false-starts, to break through my paradigmatic blocks, but eventually the "ah-HA" experience came, and now I'm at the point where I'm doing to the weight I was when I first acquired the tape. I should be to an ideal weight by February, if my trend stays the same.