Release Those Stubborn Pounds: Break Through Your Weight Loss Plateau by Metz Marjie

Author:Metz, Marjie [Metz, Marjie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

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In order to achieve your dream for yourself, what detailed instructions do you need to give your brain? These will be your empowering messages that will move you from your current state to your ideal future version of yourself. Remember the vision of your future self from Chapter 4? Maybe you need to remember how confident and satisfied you felt. Maybe you need to remember the smile on your face. To rewire your brain, write out your statements in the “I am …” format. “I am confident.” “I am happy.” “I know what decisions to make.” “I enjoy my family and my job.” These statements tell your brain where to focus. They help it know where you are headed, what you are wanting to change, and it will begin working for you to implement these changes. Have you heard the statement, “What you focus on grows”? This is exactly what you are implementing here. What do you want to grow? Do you want your negativity or depressed thoughts to grow? Then, keep focusing on them. Do you want your confidence and self-esteem to grow? Then, focus on positive, affirming, and uplifting statements, activities and thoughts - and they will grow. Don’t stay stuck where you are, make the intentional choice to do something different and in time you will become different.

Be Kind to Yourself

Some of you may realize right away that you are not very kind to yourself. Others of you may not even realize how harsh you are because it has just been your internal landscape for so long. As I mentioned earlier, imagine I am holding a microphone up to your head and we start recording you as you talk to yourself. When you make a mistake, what do you say? When you are going about your daily tasks, what do you say to yourself? What if you spoke out loud every response you say to yourself, but they were directed at your best friend? How would you feel about saying those things to her/him? To begin shifting this, consider Brené Brown’s powerful words from Daring Greatly :

“[We need]… to give ourselves a break and appreciate the beauty of our cracks or imperfections. To be kinder and gentler with ourselves and each other. To talk to ourselves the same way we’d talk to someone we care about.” [9]

I love this: “[What if we] talk to ourselves the same way we’d talk to someone we care about.” What if you could do that? Can you feel the difference in what you might say? I know I did when I started implementing this. It was a breath of fresh air to give myself a break and not worry so much and allow myself to be imperfect. I could be patient with myself instead of beating myself up for slowing down or letting things go undone. What a burden that has lifted for me! And you know what? My body thanks me for giving it a chance to rest and heal and stay out of the stress state.

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