Hello my friends,
Today I wanted to
share six weight loss suggestions that helped me lose weight in a healthy sustainable way now these are more
natural holistic suggestions these
are not your everyday dietary weight loss suggestions
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 has blocked me from making that
change and so here are some of the suggestions
that I feel like made a huge
difference for me and so many of them were mental
so the …
1.
First
suggestion 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
2.
Suggestion
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 going to look at
it and I'm going to learn from it
and I'm going to use this as a part of my journey
forward I'm not going to use it as a
reason to stop and I'm not going to use it as a
reason to quit this is a part of the
journey nothing has gone wrong
3.
Suggestion
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
4.
Suggestion
number four which piggy backs off of
suggestion 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
5.
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 going to drink four glasses of
water today or hey I'm going to move
my body for 30 minutes today or I'm going to
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 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 suggestion
6.
I
want to share with you today the sixth suggestion is to be reflective and not rejected right
so when you are not able to stick to your intentions when 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 going to have to come back to the
drawing board to deal with you
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