Hello Friends Today I wanted to share six weight loss tips that helped me
lose weight in a healthy sustainable way now these are more natural holistic
tips these are not your everyday dietary weight loss tips because I think we
hear so many of those already and I wanted to dig a little deeper to some of
the practices that I feel like really made a huge difference for me when I
finally lost weight because remember for many years I was a yo-yo dieter and
I did all the things but I still couldn't quite figure out what was blocked
me from making that change and so here are some of the tips that I feel like
made a huge difference for me and so many of them were mental
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so the first tip is to recognize that weight loss can only do one thing and that is to
have you lose weight right weight loss has one job that is to make you way
less weight loss cannot make you happier more hole more valuable more worthy
and I think a lot of times especially because of the society we live in and
all of the pressure that is put on us around our bodies we think that we
cannot be happy whole valuable and worthy in a body that we don't prefer or
in a body that we feel is overweight right but when you're coming from a
place of I am broken and I need to fix this you are constantly working
against yourself and even if you do lose the weight from that premise you will
never feel successful because losing weight cannot in and of itself make you
any happier or more fulfilled as a person right that is emotional work that
needs to be done outside of weight loss and often times weight loss can be a
byproduct of doing that emotional work first we have to remember that the
journey informs the destination so we need to come from a place of love
unconditional love and showing up for ourselves in a really kind loving way
exactly where we are even when we're not where we want to be
tip number two is to remember that there is no wagon anybody who is a dieter or has tried
many diets past we know that mentality where we're on the wagon we're off the
wagon we're on the wagon we're off the wagon right where we try to make the
changes and in the minute we go off the plan or off what we had intended for
ourselves then we tell ourselves were off the wagon but the problem with this
thought process as one it's rooted in perfection and it's very unrealistic
because no matter what if you are going to lose weight over a period of time
it is not a perfect linear path and what happens is when you tell yourself
that the minute you eat the ice cream or the doughnut or the thing that was
not on the plan that you now off the wagon it then encourages more bad
behavior and I lose I use that term loosely but it's this idea that I've
ruined it it's off the wagon and so what's the point and that can send us
into a day two days a week a month right of spiraling in a direction of
continuing to eat poorly and not focusing on the goals that we've set for
ourselves because we feel like it's not working anyway right so instead of
thinking of a wagon you just want to think this is a continuum and if I slip
up or when I make a decision that's not aligned with my plan I'm gonna look at
it and I'm gonna learn from it and I'm gonna use this as a part of my journey
forward I'm not gonna use it as a reason to stop and I'm not gonna use it as a
reason to quit this is a part of the journey nothing has gone wrong.
Tip number three and I will say this was one of the biggest mental shifts for me I
know I've shared it before but what I started to do was instead of focusing on
all of the foods that I believed I needed to restrict and deprive myself of
all the things I needed to take away from my diet which feels like a constant
state of like scarcity I began to focus on all of the foods I got to include
right and that made it fun it made it more like a game I started thinking what
can I try what's in season what did I see in that magazine or on that healthy
blog right and then it became like this playful experiment and it didn't feel
like a like punishment it actually was enjoyable and something that I looked
forward to so focusing on all of the foods that you get to include in maybe
experimenting with a couple new things every making that commitment to
yourself can really create a mental shift around weight loss and make it a
lot more enjoyable and a lot more sustainable
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Tip number four which piggy
backs off of tip number three is the crowd out technique again when we are
making changes a lot of times we are thinking that we have to do this huge
overhaul and we want to change everything overnight but the truth is creating
new habits takes time and it takes practice so a really great way to do that
is to use the crowd up technique again instead of saying I'm not gonna eat
this or I'm not gonna eat that make a small commitment like I am going to
include two vegetables on my lunch plate every single day and you practice
that for one week two weeks three weeks until it becomes so natural and so
habitual to you that it doesn't feel like trying anymore it's just something
that you do and then once that happens you pick something else to invite onto
your plate or into your kitchen or into your day-to-day habits right so maybe
it's drinking more water or working in a certain amount of movement every day
and you just focus on that one thing and as you focus on that one thing other
things start to fall away so again it's a mental shift because instead of
focusing on things that we think we can't do or we shouldn't do we're
bringing in habits that we want to do and then just letting the other ones be
slightly crowded out a bit it's a much more gentle approach and again it is a
much more enjoyable approach.
number five focus on your commitments instead of your results right so many people when it comes to weight loss we think that
the number on the scale dictates whether or not we have had any success or if
we're moving in the right direction but as we know bodies are fluid and ever
moving and scales are you know not linear they move up and down on a weight-
loss journey and so it can become very discouraging when you're using only
the scale to decide whether or not you have moved towards your goal when you
make the shift to focusing on your commitments to yourself that gives you a
lot more control over the day-to-day right so if your commitment is hey I'm
gonna drink four glasses of water today or hey I'm gonna move my body for 30
minutes today or I'm gonna put two servings of vegetables on my lunch plate
every day right you have something very clear very specific to focus on and
then you know whether or not you have been successful that day by your
ability to honor the commitment that you made to yourself so it becomes a
much more tangible way to see if you're making success because at the end of
the day weight loss over the long haul comes down to those day-to-day
practices those day-to-day habits and so when you are making a habit for that
day and paying attention to that day those are the small wins that add up
over time and might I also add that is how motivation is fed right often
people say well how can I get more motivated how do you motivate yourself and
I personally have found that motivation is often a byproduct of results we
don't usually start out motivated or maybe we do for the first few days but
what tends to get us motivated is when we are having results so if you have
the results of honoring your commitment 710 days how good that starts to feel
you start to feel motivated you start to build momentum and that again makes
everything more enjoyable more pleasurable and therefore more sustainable and
the final tip I want to share with you today the sixth tip is to be
reflective and not rejected right so when you are not able to stick to your
intentions when you you find that you were not able to commit to the things
you set out for yourself instead of using that as a reason to reject yourself
and turn your back on yourself and tell yourself you're not capable or that
you're a failure or this is just something your honor able to do use it as an
invitation to stay soft and compassionate and curious imagine every single
time you made a turn that was off the path you wanted to learn from it right
that you wanted to understand it more instead of just labeling it as a
problem and rejecting the whole thing you would in the long run make so much
more further forward progress right weight loss is not only about the the
weight falling off your body or the number of the scale going down it's about
the relationship that we get to foster with ourselves and when you bring that
to the forefront and you remember that again it's a huge shift in the weight
loss journey so much of what I wanted to share here today as you can see it's
really reflective of the mental aspects of weight loss yes there are
definitely action steps we can take on our plates and with our food and it
that's different for everybody but if you can't get the mental game straight
right if you can't be on your own side and be in this for the long run I don't
care what you put on your plate you're always gonna have to come back to the
drawing board to deal with you I would actually go so far to say that I think
for many people the weight loss journey is only about learning how to foster a
kinder more loving relationship with themselves in their bodies.
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