MICHELLE
HAS RELEASED 55lbs. SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER’S SHIFT WEIGHT MASTERY PROCESS
Click the link to hear Michelle’s
inspiring story and insights www.shiftweightmastery.com/MichelleN.mp3The next Shift Weight Mastery Process begins September 21st—click link below to find out more and sign up for a free phone consultation. http://www.shiftweightmastery.com/ShiftSeminar.html
SHIFT MONTHLY: STUCK? GET UNSTUCK : Weight
Mastery coaching for breaking a plateau
Weight loss
plateaus, like death, taxes and men leaving dirty socks on the floor (no
offense guys—said with love), are pretty much guaranteed. During the many years of my practice as a
clinical hypnotherapist specializing in long term permanent weight “release”
and helping thousands of clients in that time period I can pretty assure you
that most everyone hits a plateau at some point during their journey to their
ideal weight. The difference in who is
successful breaking through this perceived barrier and who is not is based
entirely upon how the person deals with it mentally, physically and
environmentally.
As Shifters
we want to look at plateaus in a way that gives us power rather than takes it
away from us. This month I am going to
focus on the mental game of mastering and busting a plateau—because once your
mind can SHIFT around and through a plateau your body will follow.
UNSTICK THE “STUCK”
First of
all, let’s be clear on what our definition of a weight loss plateau is.
Definition: A weight loss plateau is
a period of time where your weight does not change.
Hmm, a
period of time where our weight does not change? Well that seems innocent enough. So why do those three strike such fear, anger
and frustration in the heart of many???
Let’s look
at our FAT THINKING around weight loss plateaus.
-I don’t deserve this (plateau)
-This is unfair
-My body is broken
-I will be fat forever
-I am working so hard and nothing is
happening
-Nothing works
-Plateaus suck
-Plateaus are hard
-If I was better, smarter, richer,
prettier, this wouldn’t be happening
BTW, “Fat
Thinking” is the term we use at Shift to define the all or nothing, good or
bad, on or off a diet thinking that we get into when trying to LOSE weight. Fat Thinking includes the negative beliefs
that keep us stuck in our struggle with weight.
When we SHIFT we are Shifting our mind into “Thin Thinking” which comes
from a vision of what we want to achieve, which is not only weight “release”
(because we never want to find that weight again) but a vision of finding a way
of connecting and communicating with ourselves in this area of our lives that
allows us to feel nourished, vibrant and masterful.
As a dieter stuck
in Fat Thinking we hate and fear plateaus because they keep us from our main
dieter goal—seeing results on the scale.
Diets focus
us on the external—the results on the scale—following the diet “plan”
perfectly-- but usually never focus us on making the changes internally that keep us struggling with
weight in the first place. So plateaus form a huge threat to a dieter because
all the positive feedback they are receiving for restricting themselves on the
diet is gone.
When we
start a diet there is a daily loss on the scale. It’s great!
It’s fun! It’s glamorous and
cool—sexy!! But what happens when the
scale stops dropping and there is no more positive reinforcement on the
outside—only the diet plan and restriction with no apparent pay off?
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
We start to
get upset. Our inner mindset which has
not been altered at all by the diet and which is still stuck in fat thinking
begins to come back full force. Our Inner Critic who has been lying dormant
while the scale dropped now wakes up and begins to analyze the scenario—
“What’s
wrong with you? Why aren’t you
losing? You are doing something
wrong! You picked the wrong diet. The scale should be lower now. Your body is broken. Your head is
broken. This plateau equals
failure. You are a failure.” Yikes—not so fun now –right?
As the days
pass and the Inner Critic continues the rant about the flat line scale we feel
another Fat thinking part of us kick in.
Yes—it’s our friend the Inner Rebel.
“Weeeeelll
since you aren’t losing any weight maybe you can just eat that cookie. This diet sucks, obviously. You worked so hard, let’s just take a
break—maybe we can start another diet—the best diet—next week?”
The Inner Critic
and the Inner Rebel—those parts of us that drive our Fat Thinking-- love to
come out and play during a plateau and usually what happens is we give up, we
become a victim of our limiting beliefs about the plateau, sabotage the diet,
abandon the plan, and with no internal Shift having occurred, gain the weight
back.
SHIFTING INTO THIN THINKING THROUGH
PLATEAUS
When we
Shift we make the decision to begin to use our mind differently about how we
approach our weight. We recognize that
the mental thought systems and strategies that we operate from will need to be
“Shifted” in order to have lasting, long term permanent weight release. Success comes not from a diet on the outside but
from engaging the Inner Coach within you, (and at Shift we use hypnosis and
cognitive techniques to help us) to unravel the faulty wiring that keeps us
struggling and to re-wire ourselves with a powerful mental foundation that
supports our living our life at our ideal weight.
So a weight
release plateau to a Shifter is not so threatening because we understand the
physics side of weight release and we also know that a plateau can be an
opportunity to connect with our Inner Coach and grow from the experience. Just because there is no movement on the
scale externally, does not mean there can be no movement internally.
Often many a
Weight release Master will say that their biggest mental breakthroughs came
during their weight release journey plateaus—because they were forced to turn
within—to learn to stretch themselves past where their current thinking was
stopping them (which was being reflected on the scale).
The best
coaches create a powerful vision and ask powerful questions that help keep one
focused on moving forward. Your Inner
Coach can now do the same with your own journey towards weight mastery, rather
than becoming a victim of the “perceived” plateau on the scale. (Often plateaus
are not real but just the scales waiting for water release weight to catch up
to real fat release weight)
If you are
experiencing a weight release plateau right now try engaging your Inner Coach
and ask yourself these questions.
1) Is my
vision of what I want to achieve with my weight release journey as powerful and
visceral as it was when I began? If not,
how can I up the stakes and power of what I want to achieve until I feel
reinvigorated and engaged again?
2) Do I
really believe I am going to be successful?
If not, what are the limiting beliefs that keep me from feeling 100%
certain? I can begin to get conscious
that these beliefs are a block and need to be Shifted and move towards
that—(seek support, hypnosis CDs, reframe the belief in a positive way)
3) Do I need
to focus my efforts externally? Am I being accurate in my tracking? Are my portions bigger than I am accounting
for?
4) Am I at a
mental plateau? Do I need to shift my thoughts more—are there thoughts that are
holding me back such as:
“I am afraid to be seen or be seen as
attractive to others”
“I am afraid
to feel vulnerable and small”
“I am not willing to exercise more or focus on
calories, or write down my food.”
--there are
many other thoughts or beliefs that may be mentally keeping you at a
plateau—can you get curious about them and then begin to get conscious about
them and then begin to Shift them?
With the
dieter Fat Thinking, mindset when a plateau occurs we assume something is wrong
and this DISCONNECTS YOU FROM YOURSELF and takes your power away.
When you
SHIFT and a plateau occurs, you still may feel a bit bummed but you can keep
your power and still move forward (even though the scale may not be)—and STAY
CONNECTED to yourself by engaging your Inner Coach and turning within.
Please use
the following mind exercise to get you Shift forward within.
Mental Exercise for Plateau Busting:
1) Create a vivid representation of the
way you are right now in your plateau (your present state) with all of the
challenges the plateau represents.
2) See yourself the way you would want
to be when you get through all of the challenges. Be clear on the specifics—how you would be
behaving, how much would you be eating and exercising, what do you look like,
how do you feel??
3) Place one image in each of your hands
outstretched in front of you with a space separating them. This space represents the unexplored
territory and unspecified steps that lie between the plateau state and the
plateau busted state.
4) Begin to make a series of images or
movies of the logical steps from one state to another, adjusting each frame
until each is a fully representational stage of the process of change.
5) When you have between 5-8 stages in
front of you, begin slowly to close your hands, collapsing all of the stages
into a single process.
6) Bring your clasped hands toward your
body and pull the new state into your body, making a new feeling that
represents action and success—PLATEAU BUSTING!
7) Spin that feeling faster and faster.
Intensifying it and allowing it to spread throughout your body so that it
saturated every muscle, every organ, every nerve, every cell. As you do this, look at what you need to do
(or think) first. Then see yourself taking the second step and then the third
etc. and keep spinning and intensifying that feeling until you feel excited and
energized and ready to make the mental and/or physical adjustments and go bust
that plateau!
Have a great
UNSTUCK month!!
Oxox Rita
MICHELLE
HAS RELEASED 55lbs. SINCE LAST
SEPTEMBER’S SHIFT WEIGHT MASTERY PROCESSClick the link to hear Michelle’s
inspiring story and insights www.shiftweightmastery.com/MichelleN.mp3
The
next Shift Weight Mastery Process begins September 21st—click link below to find out more and sign up for a free
phone consultation. http://www.shiftweightmastery.com/ShiftSeminar.html
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