Reminder:
This coming Saturday, September 22nd from 9-5 is the Shift All-Day Intensive.
I am very excited to beginanother 30-Day weight mastery process with
those of you who have signed up and those of you who are kindly assisting. We
are going to have a great time—but more importantly we are going to SHIFT!
There
are only a few places left—tell your friends and family if they want to join
this one to act fast because I am talking just 2-3 seats left.
http://www.shiftweightmastery.com/reshift.html
Dear Shifters,
During this tough time I
felt very alone. Nobody was helping me. The initial excitement and
encouragement from my friends and family about my weight loss had faded. It
seemed to me that no one really cared about my weight release journey or my
getting healthy or ending my struggle with weight any more. I felt very
unsupported by everyone in my life, including myself because, as you can see,
myself talk was a wee bit on the negative side.
Then I remembered
something that I had heard years before in a motivation class where the
instructor said, “ if you want something for yourself, like support, or love or
compliments you had to start by filling your life with it yourself and give it
both to yourself and the people around you.”
The light went off!! What if instead of needing the encouragement from others I was the one to give it to them instead? What if I encouraged them to walk with me, not for me, but for them? What if I asked my husband, who also struggled with his weight, if I could coach him to make healthier choices and that we could get healthy as a couple? What if I became the support for myself by turning the Inner Debbie Downer I had become into the inspiring Inner Coach that I knew I had inside but had let out of the car a few miles back on my weight release journey? Within a few days I was engaging everyone with a new attitude—come on let’s get healthy together! The boredom was replaced by motivation and my friends and family were inspired too.
The light went off!! What if instead of needing the encouragement from others I was the one to give it to them instead? What if I encouraged them to walk with me, not for me, but for them? What if I asked my husband, who also struggled with his weight, if I could coach him to make healthier choices and that we could get healthy as a couple? What if I became the support for myself by turning the Inner Debbie Downer I had become into the inspiring Inner Coach that I knew I had inside but had let out of the car a few miles back on my weight release journey? Within a few days I was engaging everyone with a new attitude—come on let’s get healthy together! The boredom was replaced by motivation and my friends and family were inspired too.
Just like when you
read a weight loss success story you never hear the person saying “I did it
alone—no one helped me!” Often masters of weight release will say there was a
coach, a mentor, a friend or family member who walked with them, or helped them
to eat more healthfully or encouraged them along the way. That is why building
a powerful support team around you is considered one the 9 skills of weight
mastery. Many of us feel like people can’t, won’t or don’t support us or we are
afraid to ask because of past failures. Once people see you are serious about
really making a SHIFT, they tend to want to support you.
Many people who
have achieved long –term weight release made themselves a priority and then set
out to build their mastery team around them and kept them inspired to keep
supporting them. How are your building a team around you that is going to allow
you to live your life at your ideal weight??? If you have one, how can you keep
them inspired?
Let’s start with
the most important person on your team—you! How are you going to get on and
stay on your support team? Now this may seem like a silly question but really
when I see people succeed they have made their self and health a priority—when
they begin to falter 9 times out of 10 they tell me their self and health have
fallen to the bottom of the priority list.
Why? Because we are
not in the habit of making ourselves a priority. When we get stressed or
overwhelmed our new healthy resolve diminishes—“my boss needed me”—“I felt
guilty about exercising when I should be with my kids”—“there just isn’t time
for me”. Well I would like to correct and take you out of that cognitive error
right now. There is always time for you—if you aren’t healthy or feeling good
about yourself what good are you to your kids, your friends, or your job?
I was raised by a
mother who never put her health or her needs first—as a kid this was unnerving
to see someone you care about become more stressed and unhealthy day by day. My
mom couldn’t learn the habit of self care and so she never passed this
important skill on to her kids. I had to work very hard on my own journey to
weight release to create the habit of making my health a priority because I did
not learn that one growing up.
People are watching
you—whether you like it or not---and your behavior gets noticed. When you start
treating yourself better and making yourself a priority, it isn’t selfish its
powerful! You are making a positive difference in the world.
Imagine what this
world would be like if everyone showed up for themselves and coached themselves
effectively—took the time to exercise and eat right—showed up to their life
feeling positive and powerful—healthy and strong—I would want to live in that
world—I want my kids to live in that world and it all starts with me. That is
why making the habit of making yourself a priority—holding the vision of what
your weight mastery could mean to you, your friends, your family and community
could be—is a heroic endeavor—far from selfish—when you shift—you shift the
world—so let’s put you on the top of your support team list.
What are three
things that take you away from making yourself and your health a priority? How
can you move them lower on your list of priorities this week? What are three
things you could make a priority this week that would support you in your
journey towards long term permanent weight release this week and how could you
get support in that area?
Is it Exercise—do
you need someone to hold you accountable—or do you need al walking buddy for
lunchtime at work or someone to introduce you to a gym—is there someone who
needs your support? How about
grocery shopping? If you work long hours is there a family member or roommate
that could keep the house stocked with healthy food? Who can help you keep gak
out of sight? Do you need help with this in your home, in your car in your
office or friend’s homes? Can you offer your help for others as well? To teach
is to learn—coach others to keep their environments set up success and you will
feel more motivated to do the same for you.
My client Janice
slowly got her whole office enrolled in her weight release. First just by
having them keep candies and cookies out of her sight, then by making healthier
choices when they ordered out for lunch and then finally she got 4 other people
to walk with her at lunch. Now the whole office has been transformed. Janice
has released over 80 pounds and some of her co workers have lost significant
amounts of weight as well. It all starts with your commitment to make a change
for yourself and then asking others to join in. Janice now can see that all it
took was a Shift and to keep Shifting both herself and the world around her by
offering support to them.
And keep asking for
encouragement. I have been maintaining my weight for years but still ask my
husband and kids to keep foods out of sight or ask for support in getting me
time to exercise. They are happy to support me because they see it makes such a
difference to me and I in turn encourage them to stay healthy and to think of
our family as a healthy family. And when mama's happy—everybody is happy. Who
would be happy because you were healthy? Get them to be on your team! Who would
be better off with a little encouragement from you in the health area? Get them
on your team! Healthy support stays strong when there is a two way street.
Have a great week
and keep on shifting…together!
Alone we diet.
Together we Shift.
Ox Rita
Reminder: This coming Saturday, September 22nd from 9-5 is the Shift All-Day Intensive. I am very excited to beginanother 30-Day weight mastery process with those of you who have signed up and those of you who are kindly assisting. We are going to have a great time—but more importantly we are going to SHIFT!
There are only a few places left—tell your friends and family if they want to join this one to act fast because I am talking just 2-3 seats left.
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