Nothing, or No One, is going to Stand in my Way

I love the consulting part of my business because I always get a consultation myself! Everytime I talk with someone about dieting and weight loss I remind myself of things I know to be true....I know they're true, because I've already lived the experience of successful weight loss. Like many of we just forget, or we use excuses. "I don't have the time", "Life is too stressful right now", "I've tried before, and the weight came back, so it must not have worked" (that's one of my favorites!).

Well, with all of these excuses, and more, why is it that we are ever able to lose weight? Because we all have been able to lose weight at one time or another, haven't we? I mean, it might not have been all the weight we wanted to, but we have all lost excess bodyweight, even if it's been only a pound. I think we all know that's weight loss is pure science, calories in....calories out. Then why is it easier sometimes than others to chose to eat less? Motivation.

Where is your motivation level? What's it going to take for you to do what you say you want to do?

I've been saying for months now that I want to weigh less. But I'm still eating too much food....no mystery, the scale tells me so. Why am I eating too much food? Don't know, don't care. I obviously don't have the level of motivation I once had.....but can I get it back? Hell ya!

I had to ask myself what is different, now, than it was the last time I was motivated to do what I said I wanted. I had to look deep, to feel deep inside for the answer, what was the truth about it? This is what I came up with.....

When I decided...when I reminded myself, that I knew how to lose this extra weight, I was going to do it......no one, and nothing was going to stop me. I didn't care what anyone had to say about how I was doing it, it was no ones business. I knew what I needed to do and I did it. Do you know, besides the 6 other women I started the 'weightloss bet' with, I told no one what I was doing? No one. Not my friends, not my clients, my own mother didn't find out until I had lost 90lbs! I didn't need anyones opinion, judgement or advice....especially because they had never done what I knew I was going to do, which was to lose 100lbs!

If that meant not eating out, or eating someone else's food, then that was it....no exceptions. No birthday parties, no workplace potlucks, no wedding receptions, etc. that I couldn't take my own food choices to....period. If that meant staying within a particular range of daily calories, then that was it....period. If it meant walking everyday, even having to wake up early or walk during a lunchbreak, then that was it....period. And you know what? I didn't have to lose all of my weight to start feeling better, to feel in control again, it happened every moment I made myself the priority, because I knew what I was capable of.

Letting myself gain so much extra weight I had fallen asleep, I had disconnected from my body. I was looking for blame, looking to prove that life wasn't fair. Trying to feel better about myself when I couldn't be thin I looked to be perfect in other areas of my life to try and prove I was worthy. Well, I am worthy, we are all worthy, and capable to do what we say we want, no excuses. And nothing, or no one, can stand in our way.