Need Help Losing Weight?

Well, it’s that time again. Time to start thinking about going on a diet. You do this all the time, in fact it seems like you are always on a diet, but never see any lasting results. You know you should lose the extra weight for many reasons: your health, your children, you’d look and feel better, your clothes would fit better…. but it still does not come off.

Most people always blame a dieter’s problem as lack of motivation or they just can’t stop eating so much. Those really aren’t the common reasons for diet failure. Sometimes along the way in our life journey we lose sight of who we really are. Did you? The real you is deep down inside of you.

I knew a very attractive teen aged girl once who always got a lot of attention from boys. She really did not like the attention, but she never told anyone and did not know what to do. So, to stop the attention she gained weight. A lot of weight. And the attention stopped. But also the lovely life that she was meant to have.

That story was to illustrate that sometimes weight gain can be a comfortable wall for us – a comfort zone where we can retreat and hide from the world. When my daughter was little and she would see an overweight person, she would say that they were eating their feelings. I don’t know how she knew that, but sometimes it’s so true.

When we are born we come into this life with two choices – the life we were meant to have by our creator and the life we choose by default. If you are not living the life you were meant to have I would like to encourage you to begin the search for your true self.

True change must come from the inside first – from your heart and then your mind. Find a support group that can help you move beyond the limited space you now occupy. Begin to see yourself as a thinner person. Don’t let anything discourage or dissuade you from your goal. Believe in yourself and begin to act like a thinner person even before you have achieved your weight goal. Find some affirmations that you can embed in your subconscious mind and don’t stop for a minute until you have reached your goal. A wonderful book I can recommend is the Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn It is 4 books in one and is filled with life changing affirmations to keep you going strong.