Mark Your Calendar!!! The Shift Holiday Show and Happy Hour will be at Club 705 in Hermosa Beach on Sunday December 4th from 5-7--come play Holiday Calorie Bingo, get strategies and hypnosis to keep "Shifting" through the holidays, hear funny holiday eating stories and more! All proceeds will benefit SHIFT KIDS.
Dear Shifters,
When we struggle with weight most of our energy is usually focused on weight release—winning the epic battle with those extra pounds that come and go and come and go. The idea of maintenance as a new skill set to be learned and mastered once one has reached their ideal weight is rarely considered. Yet, it is our inability to sustain maintenance that really keeps us gaining back the weight and staying in the perpetual struggle. Therefore, even before we get to our ideal weight it is a good idea to glean some ideas about what maintenance is all about.
When I struggled with my weight maintenance seemed like something other shiny, lucky people achieved. I never believed that I could wake up day after day, year after year at my ideal weight and go to my closet and pull out the same size clothes and wear them. I never believed that getting on the scale could not be some drama of high and low emotions and that someday getting on the scale every morning could be as predictable and dull but as necessary as brushing my teeth. Once I made the Shift and took back my power from the old Fat thinking mindset I was able to envision maintaining before I even got there—because I finally understood—maintenance was not some lucky thing bestowed upon the privileged few, but a skill set that could be learned and repeated over and over again.
Reaching your ideal weight, deciding to maintain, and then maintaining over time is the focus of the wonderful Shift Radio interview with Shannon Marraffino who released 25 lbs with a Shift-in-a-Box Process that she received at a Shift Party in Vermont last year. She has been maintaining her ideal weight since June and has a lot of great insight into what it takes to:
-decide you are at your ideal weight
-transition into maintenance
-keep yourself motivated to stay in maintenance mode.
Here are a few things to practice so maintenance will come easily for you:
-envision getting to your ideal weight and accepting that weight rather than trying to go lower (a common mistake)
-practice holding the same weight for a few weeks by adjusting your food and exercise to stabilize rather than release—try to stay within a 3 lb range on either side of the scale
-practice enjoying getting on the scale and being happy that it is the same weight as the day before, the week before, the month before, the year before!
-create a powerful vision on you at your ideal weight one year, the following year, 5 years from now, 20 years from now.
Send this to a friend and share the radio show—it’s a wonderful way to share the Shift!
Get ready because the Shift-in-a-Box Weight Mastery Process 2.0 that empowered Shannon to release 25lbs is coming soon!
Have a great week and let your friends and family know that if they sign up for the Shift Weight Mastery Seminar for January 21st 2012 they will receive early bird discounts and a “Get Shifting Early” CD kit worth $75.
oxoxRita
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