F-A-T: F-earful, A-imless T-hinking
As most of you know, I have been having a time getting this
damn extra 10 pounds off of my body. My struggle is really more of ambivalence,
as most of the problem exists because I’m the happiest I’ve been in years. I
simply don’t care enough to get motivated to take it all the way off and keep
it off.
Something changed this week. It was significant. My friend
Sharon decided to go on the diet with me. She had been reading a book on
Ayurveda and got very excited about the different food groups she was supposed
to eat to stay healthy. She shared with me my dietary restraints. I wasn’t all
that happy about what I couldn’t eat, but decided a partner was the perfect
solution to my problem.
So, together we started our diet. The first day I was just
sick to my stomach the entire day. What I ate made me so nauseous that I wasn’t
even hungry most of the day. Almost the entire next day I felt the same way. I
lost almost 4 pounds in two days just from nausea. We also decided to exercise
together four days a week. That, my friends, is what I knew would make the big
difference. Instead of finishing work and sitting on my ass watching
television, I was actually going to muster the energy to do aerobics for at
least 50 minutes 4 times a week.
Because I’m bright (LOL), I know that if I exercise, I will
burn calories. If I burn calories, I will lose weight. Also, as I have some
dietary restraints, and I’m off of sugary goodies, much of my snacks are fruit
and hummus and high-protein flax crackers that actually don’t taste too much
like burlap.
But what about all of this is Fearful Aimless Thinking? The
new perspective isn’t about F-A-T. The old perspective was. Fearful, because I
felt that if I didn’t share in the fun food with my partner, I would be missing
out on a great part of our relationship. Aimless Thinking, because I didn’t set
a solid goal for myself and stick to it.
Today, I am seriously motivated. I actually feel I’m going
to change some major problem areas in my diet and stick with it. This is much
like one of my clients who came in with a couple of habits. He told me right
off: “This may take me two session, or it may take me 50, but I need to do this
my way and in my timing.”
I congratulated him for taking control. He knew what I know
now, I’m not going to lose any weight until I am serious enough to make an
effective change. No change happens unless it first happens in your mind.
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Bo Sebastian is a Hypnotherapist and Life & Health
Coach, available for private sessions to QUIT SMOKING, Lose Weight, New
Lap-Band Hypnosis for Weight Loss, CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! at
615-400-2334 or www.bosebastian.com.
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