Perfectionsim Sucks Your Weight Loss Efforts Out the Door

Are you a perfectionist that wants, or rather needs everything to be a certain way? Is slimming down driving you crazy because you want the weight to come off in a certain manner, but it’s just not!

Perfectionism can make slimming down impossible. Here are just a few of the negative consequences that I see in my practice:

Low self-esteem. Perfectionists never feels ``good enough'' about personal performance, so feelings of being a failure' often result.

Guilt. Perfectionists never feel good about the way responsibility has been handled and guilt may result.

Pessimism. Perfectionists are often convinced that it will be extremely difficult to achieve an ``ideal goal,'' so being pessimistic about future efforts to reach a goal is commonplace.

Depression. Needing always to be ``perfect,'' yet recognizing that it is impossible to achieve such a goal is depressing!

Rigidity. Needing to have everything in one's life perfect can lead a perfectionist to an extreme case of being inflexible and rigid.

Obsessiveness. Being in need of an excessive amount of order, pattern, or structure in life can lead a perfectionistic person to become obsessive to maintain a certain order.

Compulsive behavior. Over-indulgence or the compulsive use of alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, shopping, food, is often used to medicate a perfectionist who feels like a failure for never being able to be ``good enough'' in life.

Lack of motivation. Believing that the goal of ``slimming down'' will never be able to be perfectly achieved can often give a perfectionist a lack of motivation to attempt change in the first place.

Immobilization. Perfectionists often feel burdened with an extreme fear of failure, the person can become immobilized. With no energy to improve or change the problem stagnation can occur.

Can you relate to one or more of these?

Is perfectionism wreaking havoc on your goals to slim down?

If so, tonight I’ll be walking you through a workshop focused on identifying where your perfectionistic tendencies are holding you back from slimming down, and you’ll map out a plan to move through the shackles of perfection to experience freedom, joy and the possibility of thinness!

Join me this evening for $1 when you become part of the thinwithinu community:

Monday, July 21:
Overcoming Perfectionism,
It Only Gets In the Way
7:30 p.m. Eastern Time

http://www.thinwithinu.com

Love,
Marna