Is Life Really Better Once You Are Thinner?

Summer always used to be my goal season for my body.

By June or July I longed to have lost all my winter weight, with the hope of looking fantastic, to be able to lay out by the pool, and to wear cute summer tanks and capri pants.

Yet summer would come and my weight may be higher or lower, yet either way I wouldn’t wear capri pants, I wouldn’t lay by the pool and my hopes of having my dream summer were squashed. Another summer came and went where I felt self conscious by the pool.

Yuck!

Do you think my summers were magical after I lost weight? NOPE. Not at all. Once I slimmed down, there’s no question that I felt better in a bikini, enjoyed capris and shorts, and felt better overall, yet my mind still wasn’t happy with how I looked. I still felt self-conscious and I still avoided what I call “thin activities” like tubing down the river in your swimsuit, rafting, biking and whatever else I made up in my mind about what “thin activities” I should avoid because I was still too fat to enjoy them.

Do you think that everything will be better once you fit into a smaller size, wear the bikini you’ve been too embarrassed to wear for the past six years, or finally get down intothat oh-so-desirable pant size? I’m not going to lie, life is better, but it’s not perfect.While working on yourself to slim down, you must also work on your mind. See, if you don’t like yourself very much now, you still won’t like yourself when you’re thinner.

I see this happen thousands of times in my practice. Clients lose 20 pounds and then focus on the next 20. Even though they dropped 2-3 sizes, they want the three sizes below where they are now. Still unhappy, still frustrated, still not practicing self-love.Let me tell you the biggest secrets to permanent weight loss. This is big.Ready?

The biggest secret to permanent weight loss is finding beauty within yourself now. Finding beauty and celebrating how beautiful you are is a practice. Just the way filing your nails is a practice. If you let your nails get too long, they’d look all dirty and ragged and ugly. The same is true with your self esteem and body esteem. If you don’t nurture yourself and your body, your self-esteem gets all ragged, your sense of self gets all ugly.

Here are two things you can begin doing today:

1. Begin wearing a rubber band around your wrist. Every time you think something negative about yourself, slap the rubber band, as if to say “snap out of that kind of talk” and then replace the comment you made with a kinder more loving statement.

2. Write down all the things you think will improve when you slim down. Write a whole list with a new topic on each line. Once you’ve done that, look at your list see what you can powerfully shift right now, without waiting for your “better” you when you slim down. For example: if you think it would be so great to wear tank tops, start wearing them! If you have yet to buy yourself new summer stylish clothes because you don’t want to go shopping until you are 10 pounds lighter. Stop it! You are coming from a lack perspective. It’s as though you’re punishing yourself for who you are today. I guarantee that this won’t create a happy and thin you if you continue thinking in that fashion. Go out and get yourself some wonderful and stylish summer clothes now. It’s a good time too – everything’s on sale after the forth of July.

You deserve the best NOW, please don’t wait. We all know that life is too short, so start living and taking action. Don’t let some extra pounds keep you from living. If it’s keeping you from living a happy and joyous life, you may want to consider hiring me as your coach, so we can blast through any negativity.

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