Good Physical and Mental Health

All Tie in Together with Weight Loss

Eating is an opportunity to fuel your body with the right kind of nutrition that helps everything work the way it’s supposed to.

Weight loss doesn’t need to be something that only happens to other people or to strangers you come across on the internet.

Seeing other people lose weight, transform their physical body, increase their strength and improve their health is a beautiful thing. If they can do it, you can do it.

The pictures that you see on social media are of real people even if you may not know them. They are real-life examples of what can happen if you create a plan for yourself and stick to it.

Stop comparing yourself.

Each person’s journey is unique. Each person is beautiful in his or her own way. Each person has habits that they must unlearn so that they can make room for improvement.

Many times, we wish that we looked better, or we compare ourselves to other people and we think that we are just not capable of living up to that standard or level of excellence. This is an unhealthy mindset that needs to be transformed.

Why them and not us? Who told you that being healthy, looking good and feeling proud of the way you look is something that only other people have a right to?

If you need some some support to get past the emotional blocks that stand in the way of your successful weight loss and health improvement plan, talk to a health coach or find a good motivational group online who can keep you mentally strong and hold you accountable.

The mental shift is an essential component to your weight loss and healthy lifestyle change. So find a way to get yourself there and start noticing the difference in how you look and feel.

Body-Shaming Self-Talk that’s Got to Go. Make Room for a Fit, Healthy and Happy YOU!

Lots of people stay stuck in a negative mindset about the appearance and physical shape of their bodies. It doesn’t matter so much which word you use, how often you send negative messages about your body to yourself.

It doesn’t even matter if you choose to say the words out loud versus just thinking about them. It even matters none if you voice your negative thoughts about your own body image to friends and family.

You might do some, all, or none of those things. But if you’re having a negative perceptions of yourself and how you look, then essentially you are brainwashing yourself into a limited mindset that stops you from losing weight.

Stop saying the following things that “we all say” about our body, ability to lose weight, get fit and so forth.

“I’ve always been the chubby one. My sister (so-and-so) inherited the skinny genes… not me!”

“I’m just not athletic/good at sports. So I won’t be successful at (walking, running, working out at the gym, yoga, etc.)”

“I’m too uncoordinated for (yoga, Pilates, Zumba, spin class, aerobics, etc.).”

“Everyone in my family is fat. That’s why I’m fat, too.”

“I’m just not a person who looks good in shorts.”

“I’ll always be ‘plus-size.’”

“I’ve got “dad-bod”.”

“Check out this (beer gut/mom belly) etc. I’m sporting!”

“I have (thick thighs, a big booty, a chubby belly… insert body part critique here).”

Statements like the ones made above may have some degree of truth to them. If you’ve always been “the chubby one” of your family then that may be accurate for the time being.

But imagine if one day you weren’t “the chubby one” anymore. Could you un-do that association or nickname? Maybe you could… but you won’t know if you continue to allow yourself or other people to say those words about you.

Labels can keep us mentally blocked and stuck. Take a look at every “before and after” pic of people who have lost a lot of weight. Each person was at one time “the chubby one,” or sported “the dad bod” yet managed to change their mental outlook in order to welcome healthy habits.