“I’m doing everything right. Why isn’t my body responding?”

“Being on a diet makes it really hard to enjoy life.”

“I’ve tried everything and nothing works!”

“Losing weight is a struggle every day.”

“I’m so TIRED of being overweight.”

“Why can’t I just have a normal body, and relax and enjoy myself like I see other people do?”

“I’m already working so hard and I’m not seeing any results. I don’t know what else to do.”

These are common statements that I hear women make.

They feel frustrated, angry, and often think that their body is somehow faulty and that they are stuck with the body shape they have.

And they desperately want something else. They yearn for a healthy, slim, and sexy body—sometimes more than anything else!

What if it is these very thoughts that are holding you back?

What if those feelings of desperation and yearning are like spraying yourself with healthy, slim, and sexy repellent?

It’s possible that may actually make you feel worse. “How can I not feel desperate,” you might ask? “How can I not think dieting is hard when it bloody well is,” you might argue?

This is not meant to make you self-critical, inspire you to explain to me why your situation is different (that just keeps you stuck), or to overwhelm you because you’re already working so hard to “fix it.”

Honestly, I get it. I spent more than 35 years thinking some of those same thoughts and feeling that desperation. I couldn’t get a break. My body was somehow faulty, and actually felt like it was working against me.

I tried everything and I couldn’t see any more solutions.

But what I discovered is that I had the solution all along.

What is actually going on here is that you have a pattern of negative thoughts and emotions that is subtlety sabotaging your weight-loss efforts.

That’s it.

It doesn’t make you a bad person—or a good person for that matter. It doesn’t mean you aren’t doing an exceptional job sticking to your eating and exercise plan, or that you don’t have enough willpower (probably, you have more than most!).

It doesn’t mean you aren’t spiritual enough or are too spiritual. And it doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you—or your body.

Now there are a number of reasons that this pattern of thoughts and beliefs is keeping you stuck exactly where you don’t want to be.

And you have the power to change it.

You have the power!

You are strong enough, loved enough, have enough, can do enough, are worthy enough. As soon as you are willing to take the keys, you will begin unlocking the shackles that have kept you from getting the body you want.

It is as simple as deciding that your thoughts and emotions matter.

And then slowly, steadily—and gently—practicing new thoughts and reaching for new emotions.

I won’t lie to you. The physical changes won’t happen overnight. But the emotional change can happen in as little as 68 seconds.

In just over a minute you can feel a sense of relief. And that shift is enough to begin bringing you the body that you want.

Begin by relaxing and easing up on the critical thoughts about your body. (Note: This is a mental process, not an excuse to go eat a pan full of brownies!)

To do this:

• Meditate, journal, or just focus more on how your body is working for you rather than against you.
• Pay attention to how you feel. Take negative emotion—despair, overwhelm, frustration, anger, blame, etc.—as signals alerting you to the thought pattern you have going on that is not serving you.
• Ease up on your thinking. That can look like, “I am doing a lot right. I am taking care of my body. There is a lot about my body that is working well. My heart is beating and my blood is pumping and my lungs are breathing in and out. There is a lot about my body to appreciate.”
• Focus on all the things you can do, and let go of all the things you can’t.
• Begin to relax into the idea that this is just where you are right now. It doesn’t mean you will be here forever.
• Work with a coach to help you sort through your thoughts and get individualized help to break through those blocks that are literally weighing you down.

You absolutely have the power to transform your mind to get the body you want.

Together we can do it!

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