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What do you define as weight success? Is it a number on the scale? Is it a size you aspire to be? Since January is the month we focus on your 2013 success story-- I wanted to briefly focus on the idea that while most of the weight loss industry’s ideas of success is based on achieving outer results in the area of weight loss (ripped abs, small sizes, pounds lost) true success for most people who have kept their weight off long term has been the SHIFT in who they have become from within (stronger, more confident, way better relationship with themselves) during their quest of weight mastery.
January is probably the busiest season in the weight loss industry. I probably don’t need to tell you why as you have probably experienced the “starting over” syndrome yourself in January many times. My friend lamented that it is hard to get in her gym classes in January because of all the “resolutioners” in their new spiffy matching work-out outfits. She also noted that these “resolutioners” all disappear by March!
Erin E. has been
maintaining her weight release since 2008. Her are her clues--
Hi Rita-
I am, by nature, a
perfectionist, and in other areas of my life it has been very helpful (my
career is a good example of where this has served me well). Naturally, I
figured that if this behavior worked so well in other areas, it would work for
weight management. I was wrong - I just kept hitting that wall. The irony is
that allowing myself to be LESS of a perfectionist is probably the best thing I
have done along the way. Allowing for the inevitable "mistakes",
instead of seeing every little slip-up as a complete and utter failure has been
the most helpful thing for me. I view the "mistakes" as opportunities
to learn and I keep going. I try not to dwell on past "bad" behavior.
In fact, I try not to view any given behavior as "bad".
In the past, I have
lost weight and gotten to goal weight and then I seemingly wake up one day and
I am 20 pounds heavier. I have battled those same pounds my whole life. My
problem was that I didn't observe my behavior well enough to understand that I
was off the right path until I was really headed in the wrong direction. Now, I
pay attention to 3 things and if I am not doing them consistently, then I know
something is going on. For me, the three things I pay attention to are: Am I
writing down what I eat every day? Did I go to my favorite class at the gym on
Saturday? Did I go to Church on Sunday? Of course, these will be different for
everyone, but if I answer "yes" to these questions, I am doing well.
If I can't answer "yes", then I spend some time thinking about why I
missed doing one of these things and I commit to doing them the next week.
Conversely (and this is an example of how things can come full circle), for me,
what I look like on the outside is directly related to how I feel on the inside
(i.e. how happy/content I am). My weight is a "red flag" for me of
how I am doing emotionally and spiritually.
I need to weigh
myself at least once a week. Some people say they "go by their
clothes". That doesn't work for me. I can be up 10 pounds, and I would
still be saying that my jeans fit great. It is not that I don't trust myself,
but as they say, "numbers don't lie".
This is a big one for
me. I get out of control really fast with food if I don't record it. I exercise
and I believe it is really important to a healthy lifestyle, but the fact is
that you can do A LOT more damage on the food side in A LOT less time. It takes
me about 5 minutes to eat 500 calories (takes about an hour of intense exercise
to burn that off). I have made peace with the fact that I will have to track my
food and count calories in some way for the rest of my life. For me, it is a
small price to pay.
This is my most
recently learned lesson. All those "thin" people that I see all the
time, it turns out that most of them are working just as hard (if not harder)
than I am to maintain their figure. It doesn't come easy to very many people -
for some reason, I take a great deal of comfort in that fact.
To your weight mastery success!
Oxox Rita
January 26th is the next 30 Day Shift Hypnotic Weight
Mastery Process—click here to see a video and read more about how this powerful
hypnosis-based process can help you out of the weight struggle and into weight
success! Early bird discount ends January 12th.
RE-Shift on January 26th—if you want to re-boot
the powerful effects of the Shift Weight Mastery Process consider joining us
for the RE-Shift January 26th. Details here:
