People are always asking and forever seeking that quick fix for anything and everything in life...including health! Or shall I say, especially for health? Today there are over 100 million American dieters spending over $20 billion a year on what they believe are going to be their weight loss "easy buttons". Man, would I LOVE to get in front of all 100 million of them, look them straight in the eyes and apologize that they believed so much in these diet pills & surgeries that they weren't able to recognize the one true "easy button" for their weight loss goals: believing in themselves!!!!
Yes, it's true, you will need to spend at least some money to get healthy. Buying fresh, whole foods, nutritional shakes, fitness equipment, boot camp passes, gym memberships, workout DVDs, the appropriate attire...it adds up! I know this--I live it! But the difference between those costs and the $20 billion dieters are wasting each year is, quite simply put, a lack of confidence.
Believe me, I get it! I've worked with and have known enough people that have struggled to reach their goal weight; people who have endured so many challenges, road blocks, and sometimes, have just been flat beaten up by life. But just because you've been knocked down once, twice, thirty-thousand times along your weight loss journey doesn't mean YOU can't SUCCEED! It's all about overlooking the "failures" and remembering, uncovering, and rediscovering all of the many successes along the journey! Sure, maybe you're trying Weight Watchers for the 4th time, but rather than viewing that as a "fail" you need to see it as success! Why? You've fallen off the bandwagon 3 times and you're getting back on again: commend yourself for your persistence & believe that your never-give-up-attitude will get you to that goal weight. Don't look back on the times you slipped up and ate too many points or stopped tracking altogether, that'll do nothing but drag you down & make you feel less capable of doing it this time around; think of the days or times you did absolutely awesome on the program...how did it make you feel? What did you do those days to help you succeed? You need to remember these things in order to believe in your abilities, believe in your capabilities, believe in your goals...believe in you!
So can you do that today? Any time something doesn't go right (diet related, exercise related, work related, family related, whatever-related), don't look at what went wrong--look at what went right! If not today, then another day when you were doing the same or a similar and it went as you envisioned. Remember & believe. Remind yourself & believe. Because I promise, if you believe, you will most certainly achieve!
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