Last chance to join the September 20th Shift Weight Mastery Process
The next Shift won't be until January--a few places are left
Email or call 323 988 4574
WHY LOSE WEIGHT
Last week's I posted some pictures and success stories that inspired many of you--I have included them again this week at the bottom of the blog. Get inspired!
What lies under our desire to "lose weight"? Life beyond the scale is what I believe is at the heart and soul of the Shift Weight Mastery Process. When we start communicating powerfully with ourselves, our relationship with ourselves and the world begins to elevate and take on new, deeper, and more enriched meaning.
At the end of the day, what we really want is to find serenity within our own skin, to communicate effectively with ourselves, and to feel good about ourselves at all times. We think that the perfect number on the scale will give us this, but we really know (from past experience) that it does not. What we really seek is "sanity" over "vanity".
Is there life after we reach our goal weight?
Is it better, dreamier, more fulfilling?
Do the heavens open up and size 4 angels float down and strum harps the moment the digital scale readout lets you know---YOU'VE WON! You're skinny! You're one of us! You're in the in-club! You've made it to that place where life is sweeter, the clothes fit nicer, the sex is better, the jobs are more interesting, and people are always pleasant to you.
Before I made my Shift, my weight often neared, or was even less than what I weigh now as I dieted and deprived myself for years. But I was far from a success--I was miserable, and I still hated myself and had zero trust in myself as a person who had any skills to maintain whatever weight loss I had achieved.
In fact, whenever I hit my "goal," I got scared. The diet was over, the obsessive goal attained--now what? I have to live with myself? Yikes! I can't do that! Even though I was skinny, Inner Critic and Inner Rebel ran my show.
Where was the real Rita in all of this mess? Who the hell knew!
All of a sudden I would get very hungry and that void that I had been filling with icky diet food hollered out for cake and hamburgers and whatever was fattening. "Don't even think about anything with a vegetable in it!" the void would spew at me. "Fill me up or else!" And I did. Rather than have to face the life I avoided while trying to get skinny, I would comply eagerly even though my heart was breaking knowing I would get on the scale tomorrow and the trip back up the digital readout would have begun yet again.
I have, in my years as a clinical hypnotherapist, worked with some poster children for other weight loss plans. These "success stories" lost all the weight they wanted on Lindora, Michael Thurman, Slim Fast, Jenny Craig, etc. They even had their pictures plastered over the papers and advertisements for these programs. When they came to me, these pictures of the thin them were a mere memory--the weight had come back once the plan had been discarded or the weight loss goal achieved.
One client brought such a picture in to show me, an ad in the Times for one of these "programs." There he stood, smiling from ear to ear in his "after" pose, all toned and skinny, the washboard abs rippling under his tight t-shirt. He told me that the moment that photo session was over, he went out and began to eat himself back up the scale 50 pounds. "I just didn't know what else to do, a voice in me said, "Okay you're done now, eat!--and so I did."
When our weight loss is only about reaching a number on a scale--we lose--but not in a good way. We lose the opportunity to really live our lives and to learn how to love and trust ourselves so that when we do reach that day when our ideal weight appears on the scale, it is only a medium part of a celebration that has been happening all along. This celebration really begins when you start your journey to weight mastery and finally begin connecting to your true wants and needs.
The real reason to lose weight is to gain a powerful relationship with yourself--it isn't about "before and after." It's about NOW--about loving yourself now. Showing up for yourself--NOW. Staying connected to yourself--NOW. Living the life of your dreams--NOW. Not letting some number on a scale give you permission to be okay or pretty or sexy or loveable or smart. Your key to releasing the weight permanently is giving yourself the permission slip to be your dream--NOW.
Are you ready to shift out of the weight struggle and begin truly releasing weight in a way that is powerful and lasting? The Shift Weight Mastery process uses hypnosis and powerful thinking tools to allow you to break through the limiting beliefs and behaviors that have kept you from having that powerful relationship with yourself.
I am sharing Bill, Donna, Amy and Cathy's stories with you again so that see and hear how they stopped trying to "lose weight" and began powerfully releasing weight for good with the relationship that they created with themselves.
If you are interested in making true change hit “reply” and just say, “Let’s talk”. That’s all we will do at first. We can set up a time just for us to talk by phone and see if this is something that would make a huge change for you. It’s that easy.
If you decide to move forward, when you decide you receive $100 off and $100 bonus of gifts for signing up. Hit reply and write “let’s talk”. I would love for you to join us this September, there are only 10 places left.
Donna released 60 pounds since last September’s Shift Weight Mastery Process
I have struggled with my weight for most of my adult life, Rita and the Shift Weight Mastery approach brought a level of sanity into my life.
“I'm an intelligent and successful woman and yet I felt defined by my failure to control my weight. I have released 60 lbs. I feel better than I have in years. My kids see me in a new light, heck almost everyone I know does!
Best of all, I am confident that there is no "unlearning" the skills that I have acquired during this process! I can cross this off my list!
My best advice to a new shifter is:
- Plan: protect yourself from being choice-less. Have healthy choices handy and make sure that you're not so hungry that you feel any food will do the trick
- Be the coach to yourself that you would be for your best friend:
- Loving, but strong.
- Understanding, but accepting no excuses.
- Curious, but truly solution oriented.
- Finally, loyal to your best self.”
Bill released 85 lbs since last September’s Shift
“For me, exercise was the key to success…not as a way to facilitate weight release, but as a way toward total fitness. I no longer have a "goal weight", I have a goal of greater fitness.
"The Shift Weight Mastery Process helped me make the connection to fitness that I had always needed, and to create a life that made my changes in eating and moving my body permanent changes.
I started walking every day, and then picked up the pace a little bit. I added cycling when I ran too much and started having injuries, but when it became about being able to do more with my body, it was always fun.
“I have known several formulae for losing weight, but because it was always about losing weight, I would always go back to my old habits once the weight was off, and the pounds would quickly find their way back to me.”
Cathy Released 50 lbs since last September’s Shift
Cathy revolutionized her thinking into a “Yes I Can!” attitude. Not only did this “shift” change her relationship to food and exercise which allowed her to release 50 pounds but she used her “Yes I Can!” mantra to add a whole new level of inspiration to her business, “Today’s Innovative Woman”.
Amy released 160 pounds since 2 Septembers ago with Shift Hypnosis.
Hear my interview with her about how hypnosis and planning was
the key to her amazing success.
Are you ready to Shift your life?
Are you tired of struggling with your weight, food, exercise and yourself?
The Shift Weight Mastery Process is a highly specialized program that uses hypnosis, thinking and weight release skills taken from over 200 studies of weight loss success.
- Stop sabotaging yourself and feeling like a failure
- Begin a powerful relationship with yourself where you are in charge of food, exercise, and yourself
- Start releasing weight for good and feeling confident about yourself
Call me at 323 988 4574 or email me back and let me know if Want to make that happen? Why wait another year?
Another month? Another day?
If you are interested in making true change hit “reply” and just say, “Let’s talk”. Or call me—323 988 4574. That’s all we will do at first. We can set up a time just for us to talk by phone and see if this is something that would make a huge change for you. It’s easy.
If you decide to move forward, when you decide you receive $100 off and $100 bonus of gifts for signing up. Hit reply and write “let’s talk”. I would love for you to join us this September, there are only 10 places left.
Here is to your journey towards mastery and fulfillment in all areas of your life!
oxox Rita
