Support yourself on your weight loss journey because it’s your job, and because it feels amazing to connect with yourself and meet your own needs.
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Overcoming discouragement is a skill that we have to develop and practice. It’s NOT our natural inclination, since our primitive brain is wired to seek comfort, avoid pain, and expend minimal effort.
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How do you know if this is the right time for you to get started on a weight loss journey? When you’ve decided that growth in this area is more important to you than the comfort of staying the same.
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“Am I trying to escape feeling negative emotion by eating?” This is a tough question to ask ourselves, but it’s one of the most powerful when it comes to losing weight for good. Many of us don’t even realize our desire to avoid negative emotion. Avoiding negative emotion by eating has just become a way of life.
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Who is the best leader for your weight loss journey- and beyond? YOU! Leadership is about influencing people to achieve objectives. Who knows better about what your objectives are and how to motivate and influence you, than you?
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Many clients tell me at the beginning of their weight loss journey that the reason they aren’t at their weight goal is because they lack “self discipline”. The definition of discipline is: “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience”. This, is actually, the opposite of how I coach my clients, and they come to know this throughout the course of my eight week program.
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Think about achieving your weight goal and visualize yourself already there. Ask
yourself the following questions.
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Think about achieving your weight goal and visualize yourself already there. Ask
yourself the following questions.
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Through the process of goal setting, you’ll become a more clear, clean, in touch version of yourself as you push outside your comfort zone. There’s nothing you genuinely want that you can’t have. To receive help with goal setting during a FREE mini coaching session, email me: lparkes@lightenup4ever.com.
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Perfection isn’t part of the weight loss journey. A successful journey encompasses the process of “failing forward”. Failing forward can be described as learning about ourselves when we don’t follow our plan, and moving forward with positive emotion.
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Anytime we want to grow- to stretch ourselves in some way- it takes commitment to the process. By commitment, I mean a decision ahead of time that you’re not going to quit on yourself, regardless of anything you might feel.
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I like to start out by introducing a "morning routine" as a way of giving to yourself. What you give, you will receive. It's a way of cooperating with yourself to reach your full potential. Why is this important for weight loss? When we get the inside right, the outside follows.
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If you want to know what your beliefs are, look at your life. Your life is a manifestation of your beliefs. What we believe encompasses what we do, what we say, and how we react. Anything you want to change in your life must be changed at the belief level if you want it to be permanent. You can't just treat the symptom. You must dig deep and find the belief that caused you to get there in the first place
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It's considered "normal" to eat cake to celebrate birthdays. It's considered "normal" to drink alcohol, a substance that is known to be toxic for the body, consistently. It's considered "normal" to go to brunch and eat until you're uncomfortable. What about the loads of candy we give our kids for Halloween, Valentine's Day, Easter? It's considered to be normal. Or, to eat foods loaded with chemicals and preservatives- it's "normal" to us. What about eating whenever you're hungry- whether it be physical or emotional- that's considered to be normal, right?
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Ever wonder what weight coaching is all about? You're not alone. Most people have no idea what a weight coach is, so I'll explain. As your coach I help you see where you're getting in your own way. I ask questions and guide you towards empowering yourself. I teach concepts that help you see things from a different perspective. My job is to help you create the results you're desiring in your life by showing you your mind.
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We can be in our present moment and allow ourselves to dream and set goals from a place of abundance, which can be interpreted as, "having plenty already". It's not because of "lack" or trying to make ourselves happy that we set goals. The purpose of goals is to grow into the best version of ourselves. It's just a way of "blooming" in a bigger way.
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Friday night was family night. Our 11 year old daughter picked bowling as the activity. We got a lane, no problem...and started having fun right away. I began noticing the food coming out all around me. Two lanes over were cheeseburgers and fries. The people who we shared a lane with had bacon wrapped appetizers, followed by a cheese board. On the right side were cream puffs dipped in chocolate. The alcohol was flowing all around. Our daughter ordered chocolate cake. My husband ordered a hummus platter. I ate a few veggies off the hummus tray.
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What is "dopamine"? And how does it relate to weight loss??? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that our brain produces to nudge us into doing things. It's the main reason we can focus and achieve. It's the ultimate motivator.
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The choice about eating or drinking ANYTHING is always yours. My job as a weight coach is to educate you, so you can make the best decisions for yourself.
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Throwing your scale out seems to be all the rage these days. Some people find it to be liberating, choosing to focus on other factors of health, rather than the numbers associated with the scale.
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