Does your comfort zone have anything to do with health and fitness? Absolutely! If you can’t give a diet a chance then you’re hiding behind your own current diet which may or not be damaging you.
Many people do not like the idea of counting calories. It gives the notion that you’ll have to count everything you eat and you’ll end up eating like a robot. Although this can be true at first, when you adjust to it, it is really easy. I, for example, have become so accustom to counting calories and looking at labels that I know how many calories there are in general foods. Of course, if there are some specific foods that are loaded with some “secret" ingredient it may have more calories than I estimate. However, I probably wouldn’t be eating something that I knew was filled with calorie dense ingredients.
Changing lifestyle habits may seem hard but they will benefit you in the long term. Imagine implementing one healthy habit every week. In a year how much healthier do you think you’ll be? Simply by venturing out of your comfort zone a week at a time you can be living an extremely healthy life!
Many people refuse to continue with diets or don’t even start diets at all because of comfort zones. They have vivid memories of their past when they could eat anything they wanted to eat. They could go have fast foods, get groceries at the local gas station, etc. Returning back to old comfort zones and staying there is simply being a coward! I have had many times when I thought of simply going back to eating whatever I felt like. However, I didn’t and I have grown as a result.
Controlling your internal desires for things that are not good for you is very important. Not just in weight loss but in everything in life. It’s strange but the more I look at it the more I begin to realize that the ability to lose weight has a lot to do with the ability to live life. Some people work hard and reap the benefits while others settle for what they got and move on day by day wishing for some magic pill to come around and take away their problems.
Wow! You must be on fire by now burning and churning up those calories on your way to your ideal weight. I know that taking steps to better your life is not always easy. It takes courage to do this. Sometimes it's easier just to keep in the mind set of surviving and do what you've always done. When you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Is this what you desire? Or do you want something different, something that is absolutely amazing?
You know what I believe? I believe you're ready to burst out of your shell and manifest everything that is yours by Divine right. You are so ready to soar above the clouds that nothing can stop you from achieving success. God has these plans for you, and he wants you thriving, not surviving. You're now recognizing what you need to do in order to obey His commands. To thrive means paying attention to yourself so that you can be all that God intends for you. If sometimes you feel that you're not living God's plan, He forgives you even when you're not connected to Him. Now, if God can forgive you, then let's work on forgiving yourself.
I want you to take out a mirror and look into it while reading the following statements. If you don't have a hand-held one, then go stand by a mirror.
________________ (Fill in your name), I forgive you for _____________________ (fill in the blank with whatever it is you need to forgive yourself for). I know that you were doing the best you could.
________________ , I forgive you for _________________________.
________________ , I forgive you for _________________________.
________________ , I forgive you for _________________________.
There might be several things you want to forgive yourself for or you might just have a few things. The important thing is to focus on forgiving so you can release it.
Last week I worked with a client who had an amazing break through. Her core issue was not forgiving herself for making mistakes in her second marriage, which led to divorce. She has been very hard on herself for seven years because she thought she asked all the right questions and should have known better. I did chakra work with her and the message was loud and clear?..FORGIVE YOURSELF. (Incidentally, I will explain chakra work in another lesson).
Now, while looking into the mirror, take your right hand and form a fist and rub over the heart and repeat out loud:
Even though I have had the issue of not forgiving myself, I deeply love and accept myself and this issue is healed. Divine Love floods my whole body with light and every cell is filled with love. Say this ten times.
In addition, while the mirror is in front you, tell yourself, ?You look marvelous, baby!!?
How do you feel? Stupendous! Awesome! Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious! (Okay, I am a fan of Mary Poppins and I love that word).
Practice! Practice! Practice! (Affirmations, Rapid Eye, Emotional Freedom Techniques, gratitude, forgiveness). The more you do it, the more it just becomes natural to bring in all the positives and surround yourself with them. Your ideal weight is already here. Believe it! Know it! Expect it!
I appreciate you and your efforts and am so grateful that you're part of my life. I am sending you pink light energy. Hug yourself with this light and be surrounded in love.
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