Welcome Video
Welcome, friends! In this video, I give a bit of my background, my WHY for wanting to lose weight, and share what I’m currently doing to lose 100 lbs.
Recap of Week 1
Releasing the powerful grip the scale has on my emotions
How I’m overcoming my fear about sharing my current weight
How to let go of the negative thoughts you have about yourself
My bad day, and what insight it gave me
Our circumstances do not cause our emotions…our thoughts do
Recap of Week 2
Reasons why we overeat
Overhunger, Overdesire
Dopamine…temporary pleasure
Stop using food to escape your feelings
Be patient in the length of your journey
Learn to manage your mind for permanent change
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Why Diet Mentality doesn’t work long-term
Why taking personal responsibility is so important
Food is not a moral issue, stop making it one
How to still enjoy food AND lose weight
Loving yourself NOW is key to reaching your goal weight
Stop scale drama
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Life is 50% positive, 50% negative
Why it’s important for us to experience both
Stop using food to escape negative emotions
You are strong enough to feel any emotion
Embrace your humanness
Embrace all parts of you- strengths and weaknesses
Work on living a more intentional life
Recognize how much power you truly have over your life
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Why change is so hard
Don’t expect immediate results….change takes time
Embracing discomfort is the key to success
Learn to enjoy the journey
Our beliefs we have about ourselves are not truth…they are opinions
You are 100% worthy and acceptable right now
Growth is more fun than stagnation
Push yourself out of your comfort zone
Look to your future, not your past
Create a new identity
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How society tends to view overweight people
Shame around our bodies is not helpful or useful
Beliefs are not truth….they are just thoughts
We should strive for greater kindness and acceptance
There is so much more to you than your weight
We cannot control other people’s opinions of us
Self-confidence is something to strive for NOW, not just when you lose weight
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The importance of self-love
True desire vs. False desire
Get clear on what you DON’T want
Then, get clear on what you DO want
Ask yourself WHY those things are important
True desires do not come from a place of “not enough”
Make time every day to refill your cup
Begin taking baby steps towards your desires and dreams
Over time, baby steps add up to phenomenal results
This helps you build faith and trust in yourself again
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Honoring your true desires
Defining what success means to you
Learning to embrace ALL parts of you, good and not so good
Self-love happens one thought at a time
The importance of building faith and trust in yourself
Learning to challenge our thoughts, rather than accept them as truth
Drop the façade of perfection
Growth is not comfortable, but it adds so much richness and meaning to our lives
You are worth the effort
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Our life experiences are filled with both positive and negative emotions
Pay attention to what emotion feels like in your body
Everything we do is to achieve a certain feeling
How we handle our emotions: React, Resist, Avoid, Allow
Allowing yourself to feel all emotions is the key to staying committed to your goals
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Being future focused vs. past focused
Our beliefs are just thoughts, and can be changed if they’re not serving us
Our past is just a story we are telling ourself. Our stories are optional.
Question how you define yourself- is it truth? (Hint: it’s not. You can change your identity!)
Self-confidence is based on the thoughts you are thinking about yourself
You can choose to feel self-confident NOW….not just when you lose weight
New thoughts bring new results
Ask yourself: What do I want to believe about myself? Anything is available to you.
In this video, I discuss:
My new video format
Why I hate New Year’s Resolutions, but love setting goals
Why I’ve decided to do less, not more
How adjusting my goal has made all the difference for me
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There are 3 levels of change….outcomes, habits/processes, and identity
Identity change is the key to becoming who you want to be
Our identity is built on the beliefs we have about ourselves
Identify NOW as the person you want to become
The process of identity change isn’t easy or fast, but it’s everything
We have to continuously edit our beliefs to expand our identity
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Being okay with my humanness….the good and the bad
It’s okay for the process to look messy
Viewing “failures” as an opportunity to grow
COVID sucks! My experience with parosmia
The importance of taking back your power in your own life
Make yourself the hero, not the villain, in your story