Slow down
The faster you rush through the weight loss process, the less prepared you’ll be to maintain your progress.
Take your time developing the foundation that will be your lifelong active lifestyle. Trade the next few years getting this squared away, so that the decades that follow include a healthy relationship with food, fitness and yourself. Please. 🤗 👊🏻
Hey there. I want you to think about the story you are telling yourself in your own head. Not the story you tell other people. The one that plays quietly when you wake up, when you look in the mirror, when you get dressed, when you think about your goals, when you decide what you will or will not do today.
Hey there. I want you to think about how much time and energy you have spent picking yourself apart.
How many mornings have you stood in front of the mirror, scanning for what is wrong, what needs fixing, what still is not good enough?
Hey there. If you are holding on to resentment, I want you to pause for a moment and ask yourself a hard question. What is that resentment giving you?
Hey there. If you have been on a weight loss journey for a couple of years or more, you probably know this feeling. You set a plan. You get excited. You promise yourself this time will be different. Then a few weeks later, maybe even a few days later, you feel like you already messed it up.
Hey there. For a long time, I believed there had to be one right way to do fitness and weight loss. One right plan. One right diet. One right workout style. If I could just find the perfect system and follow it closely enough, everything would finally click.
Hey there. I want you to stop explaining yourself so much.
I see this all the time, and I have done it myself. You share your plans, your goals, or the changes you are trying to make, and when someone questions them, you immediately feel the need to justify every detail. You explain your thinking. You plead your case. You hope they will understand.
Hey there. I want to nudge you to start keeping promises to yourself.
Not big promises. Not dramatic ones. Small ones that you make every single day, often without even realizing it.
Hey there. You get to choose where you go from here.
That might sound obvious, but it does not always feel that way when you have been stuck in the same patterns for years. Especially if those patterns are tied to weight loss, body image, or the belief that you need to fix yourself before you can live the life you want.
Hey there. Where you are right now did not happen by accident.
I know that statement can feel heavy at first, especially if life has dealt you some unfair cards. I am not pretending that everything in your life was chosen. A lot of things were not. There were circumstances, decisions, and situations placed on you that you had no control over. That matters. It deserves to be acknowledged.
Hey there. Who are you for yourself?
I ask that question a lot, and every time I do, I notice how uncomfortable it makes people. It used to make me uncomfortable too. We are so used to defining ourselves by roles. Parent. Partner. Caregiver. Employee. Boss. Friend. The dependable one. The strong one. The one who keeps everything moving.
Those answers come quickly.