How we THINK & FEEL about our weight loss journey matters.
If we hate it, fight it…and just want to do whatever it takes to get thin, we’re screwed.
That sh*t doesn’t work, at least not long-term.
You cannot hate yourself thin. And who wants to anyway, that is NO FUN AT ALL!
So what if you started looking at your weight loss journey in a new way?
Instead of looking at it as a problem to be solved, what if you could start seeing it as an opportunity to grow as a person? To step into the next version of you!
I believe our weight journey is here to teach us something.
I struggled with my weight for 20 years. And let me tell you, while I was going through it, I would have given anything to change it. In fact, I tried just about everything out there to lose the weight and nothing I that I tried worked permanently.
That’s because I hadn’t yet learned what it was here to teach me.
I was more concerned with fixing it, rather than learning from it.
That’s why it stayed around for so long, despite all the energy I put into it.
When I finally surrendered and stopped trying to rush it, that’s when things began to shift.
I decided that I was going to lose the weight even if it took me the rest of my life.
I became committed to LEARNING from my weight loss journey.
So every time I overate, I got curious. I looked back at WHY it happened. I wondered how I could do things differently next time and then practiced getting better each time.
I also used it as an opportunity to stop being so critical of myself. To stop feeling sorry for myself and take responsibility for my reality. I wanted to learn WHY I had struggled with food for so long.
I knew that if I wanted to make it happen, I had to learn how to keep the promises I made to myself and stop quitting the minute it got hard.
I didn’t do all of this overnight. It was definitely a process, and I let it be. The first three months of being on an eating protocol, I didn’t lose a single pound, but I kept going anyway. I kept tweaking the protocol until I figured out what worked for my body…I didn’t have a personal PCOS coach to help me! I had to keep testing until I figured it out.
So my question for you is, what do you think your weight is here to teach you?
How can you use this journey as an opportunity to learn more about yourself?
Are you willing to let it be a journey rather than a race?
It’ll be so worth it!
In health & happiness,
Jamie
