I’ll bet there are a million reasons – not just because you want to be healthier.
List them – list them all and see if that stimulates you to, in a new and different way, take action. Sometimes I try and try and try to get something going and it just doesn’t happen until someone says something that hits me a certain way and all of a sudden: I must do it now.
Here’s my example: I have tried on and off for years to give up sweets/ sugar. I have wanted to give it up because it seems to have an unhealthy hold on me like – I want to eat the whole box of cookies, not just one or two like everyone else seems to easily be able to do, or I want to eat dessert even though I am already totally full after dinner.
Sometimes it seems manageable and sometimes it feels like a curse but when someone said to me recently – stop eating sugar, and you’ll find out what you really need, what you have been denying yourself for so long - well, it hit me hard. I never really thought of it that way, though I do suspect that by eating so much of it (sugar numbs me), I must be avoiding something.
So try this: state every reason you want to lose weight (or stop sugar, or stop drinking, or whatever) and see if it stimulates you to do whatever it is you know you need to do, in a new and more powerful way.
Here are some reasons that I have heard. I want to lose weight:
--To get a man
--To look good in my wedding pictures
--To make my girlfriends jealous, respect me, or admire me
--To fit into my small size wardrobe
--To get my boyfriend back
--To get a job
--To have more energy
--To stop beating myself up
--To finally do what I have been saying I would do for over a decade
Got your own unique reasons?
You never really know what will get the ball rolling. Once I got off sugar, I started learning a lot about me!
Peace,
Debbie Rocker
www.debbierocker.com
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