Because I have been there too....
I can't tell you how many times I had
CONVINCED myself that I was on the right "tracK"
and that I was going to get thin FOR REAL this
time...
I was eating healthy and being really careful
and "conscious" about everything I put into my
mouth.
And then something would happen, and I would
give into temptation and I would pig out.
Then instead of forgiving myself and jumping
right back on the horse (so to speak), I would
just give up and tell myself how hard it was to
eat healthy and lose weight.
What I didn't understand at the time, was that
it wasn't my willpower that needed to get stronger,
or my motivation that needed to be built up...
It was my attitude about how I treated these
"cheats" that needed to change.
And once I got an attitude adjustment, it
was like someone turned the lights on... and my
entire beliefs about getting healthy and losing
weight transformed.
See, now I do sometimes still cheat and have a
day where I go "hog wild" and eat like crap...
But I forgive myself quickly because I now
know that cheating is a part of the process to
getting healthy for a lifetime.
And you can even learn an important lesson
every time you cheat - forgiveness.
To better explain this, here's a story taken
directly from my eBook "How To Lose Weight By
Feeding And Nourishing Your Spirit".
I have gotten a lot of great feedback on this
story, and I think you might find some things in
it that can help you learn how to forgive yourself
quickly and move on when you have a cheat day (or
two, or three).
Friday, April 30, 2010
Will You Try This?
Will you try this experiment?
I think it's going to change how you feel
about yourself after you have a really big
pig out session, and it will help you to forgive
yourself quickly so you can regain your focus
of getting healthy and losing weight.
Let me ask you...
Have you ever been doing really well, eating
healthy and staying committed to a healthy diet
but then one day you indulge and pig out?
Maybe it was a holiday.
Or a special occasion like a birthday party.
Or maybe it was just a tough day and you felt
weak and defeated so you "gave in".
Whatever the excuse for doing it was, did you
feel guilty afterwards?
And was the guilt enough for you to convince
yourself that maybe you should just give up on
the hope of ever getting thin?
Did you tell yourself, "I knew I could never
do this. I just don't have enough willpower."
So you just give up on even TRYING to eat healthy
and you went back to just eating "whatever" you feel
like eating in the moment.
Does this sound familiar?
How could I possibly know that you've been
through this maybe once, maybe twice, maybe more
times than you can even count ?...
I think it's going to change how you feel
about yourself after you have a really big
pig out session, and it will help you to forgive
yourself quickly so you can regain your focus
of getting healthy and losing weight.
Let me ask you...
Have you ever been doing really well, eating
healthy and staying committed to a healthy diet
but then one day you indulge and pig out?
Maybe it was a holiday.
Or a special occasion like a birthday party.
Or maybe it was just a tough day and you felt
weak and defeated so you "gave in".
Whatever the excuse for doing it was, did you
feel guilty afterwards?
And was the guilt enough for you to convince
yourself that maybe you should just give up on
the hope of ever getting thin?
Did you tell yourself, "I knew I could never
do this. I just don't have enough willpower."
So you just give up on even TRYING to eat healthy
and you went back to just eating "whatever" you feel
like eating in the moment.
Does this sound familiar?
How could I possibly know that you've been
through this maybe once, maybe twice, maybe more
times than you can even count ?...
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