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The Story of the 9,658 Calorie Tic
Tac
Dear Shifters,You may think of Tic Tacs like just ordinary innocent little 1.5 calorie breath mint—so did I—until the day I met up with the 9,658 calorie Tic Tac!
I remember this Tic Tac like it was yesterday though it was almost 20 years ago. The story of the 9,658 Tic Tac begins when I was on a diet trying to lose the same frustrating 40 pounds I had gained and lost over the previous fifteen years. You see, the summer was coming and I was up near my highest weight and I didn’t want to spend another summer trying to come up with clever ways to hide my flabby bits but at the same time look like I was not trying to hide my flabby bits because it was summer and bits should be exposed and not hidden. Can you relate?
So here I
was desperate again, willing to do anything again, in the name of getting the
weight off. This time I was on some sort
of juice fast which restricted any food other than fruit and vegetable juices. I had been “juicing” for about a week and had
lost 6 pounds in 3 days and I was excited—only 30 pounds to go! The French bikini over my firmly toned abs
was just around the corner!!!
While I was
doing this juice fast and everything seemed fine and dandy. In a weird way fasting was easy because it
meant not dealing with food. Food--which
was both my best friend and my most bitter enemy at the same time. I couldn’t trust myself with food so this
fasting thing worked for me because it removed food as an option. It was very black and white. Juice or water and that is that—eat any food
and “you blew it” so just don’t eat food and you will be perfect—a winner—one
of the lucky slim ones.
I nervously knew in the back of my mind that
food would have to come back but I assured myself that I could figure out how
to deal with food at some other point when the summer is over and the French
Bikini has been put away until next year. I pushed those thoughts as and felt
really good about myself as the veritable Queen of the juice fasts. Until that Tic Tac crossed my path.
Do you remember the Tic Tac lady? Do you remember those commercials where this blonde, super skinny lady dressed in white comes on and seductively says, “Tic Tacs are only 11/2 calories each” and then pops one in her mouth? She made them seem so easy, so light, and so fun!!
Okay so I am on day seven of the juice fast and I drink my morning juice of cucumber and apple and pack my next lunch time juice of spinach and apple and I head out the door, get in the car, and head out for a long day of running errands all around town.
About two hours into the day I get back in my car and head out on the freeway to my next appointment. When I get on the freeway I get into some very slow going traffic. I sit there and start getting stressed, this is bad—I may miss my appointment. Now I also notice I am hungry so I reach down for my juice container and that’s when tragedy occurs—the juice container falls over and juice pours out all over the floor of my car. Shoot. Now I am stuck in traffic and I am really hungry and my precious juice is gone.
The traffic continues and I did indeed miss my appointment, now I am frustrated and starving—my stomach is growling. Then out of the corner of my eye I see a canister of Tic Tacs on the passenger seat. I grab them. At first I hesitate—a part of me says—“no! a Tic Tac is food—juice or water and nothing else remember?" The other part of me says, “Eat the damn Tic Tac. It’s a mint. Mints aren’t food. Just eat one—it will calm you down and remember like the lady says, only 1.5 calories.”
Guess which voice won? I ate the Tic Tac! For a second I felt wonderful as the little white sugary bliss entered my blood stream. But then the Tic Tac was over and so was the little relief from the traffic and my stress. So, without thinking I ate another—bliss-- and another—bliss-- and within a minute I was ripping off the little white plastic dispenser and DUMPING ALL OF THE TIC TACS FROM THE CONTAINER INTO MY MOUTH AT ONE TIME! But did that make things okay? No! Now the fire was fueled and I wanted more.
At this time
there was enough of a break in the traffic that I got off the freeway and
headed to the nearest 7-11. I went in
and got some juice. After all I hadn’t
really cheated had I? Tic Tacs are just
mints not food. As I approached the
counter there was a line and as I was waiting to buy my juice I stare at the
pastry display and saw a shiny, tantalizing chocolate muffin. My stomach growled some more. A part of me said “no—just the juice—juice
and water—juice and water!” But the
juice and water didn’t seem so good anymore and the other voice welled up from
within, “You know you blew it with the Tic Tacs today so you might as well just
eat the muffin and start again juicing tomorrow.” Guess which voice won?
I grabbed
the muffin…and then a bagel with cream cheese.
And oh, heck why not—a bag of Cheetos and let’s rinse it all down with
the juice! Oh wait, yes, a few
chocolate bars too.I head out to the car and just sit in my car and eat…it all. After I am done I feel a few seconds of remorse but those feeling are quickly pushed down by the voice telling me, “C’mon you will be good tomorrow—live it up. Let’s hit the drive-thrus and then let’s go get some ice cream. Let’s really party. Tomorrow it’s back to boring juiceville.”
So 9,568 calories later I ended my day and that was then end of the juice fast too. I did not wake up and go back to juicing, I said, “It’s the weekend. Start again on Monday”. That Monday came and went and so did all the other Mondays of the summer. And you guessed it--that was another summer that I had to spend cleverly figuring out ways to cover my flabby bits YET AGAIN. But worse than hiding flabby bits behind a towel was the fact that I was still struggling and beginning to think that it was always going to be like this. That this was my lot in life. That I was always going to have to struggle with not just my weight but MYSELF in this area of my life—FOREVER.
And that is the story of the 9,658 calorie Tic Tac.
I look back on that story now—having now maintained my Shifted weight release for nearly two decades—and I see it wasn't the Tic Tacs fault but rather all the little places where I let myself down with FAT THINKING. Fat thinking is the all or nothing, good or bad, on or off way of thinking that we get into when we struggle with our weight.
When I made the Shift I realized that I didn’t need to overcome food as much as I had to overcome my minds powerful urge to do repeat the same habits again and again. One of the biggest habits would be to go on a diet and then break the diet. That was the most fattening habit for me and most people that I work with. Hypnosis can help the mind out of the habits that are keeping you in the struggle with your weight. Once I began using my mind more effectively when I Shifted I began to be able to create new and powerful inner conversations or “frame works” of thinking that supported me in being consistent with new habits that lead to my extraordinary weight loss and long term maintenance.
The best
part, aside from not fretting about bathing suit season is that I have created
a powerful relationship with myself that allows me the confidence to not only
maintain my weight but to pursue the life of my dreams—something I would never
have done when I was stuck in the weight and food struggle.
Now I offer the same to you—the Summer Shift—30 Day Shift-in-a-Box Process is designed to create an internal SHIFT out of Fat Thinking and into Thin Thinking. The great thing about this Shift is that it is a home study course—so you can do it anytime, anywhere—even while on vacation. It’s do-able, it’s inexpensive and it’s the beginning of the summer. Check out the link below and give yourself the gift of becoming your own powerful weight release coach—once you get started you will be unstoppable!
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OXORita
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