Trust and Permanent Weight Loss

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Huge topic here.  TRUST.  In my role as on-air life coach for NBC-15 here in Madison, I spoke about trust this morning.

I’m interviewing potential students for the enLIGHTen Your Life! course, my mastermind permanent weight loss course, and I’ve heard several people make statements like “I’m afraid to try weight loss again.  I can’t trust that I will lose weight and keep it off.”

When I ask them to explain, they mention trusting a diet, or a “plan.”

I like to gently point out that is not even a point of trust.

To lose weight and keep weight off, we only need to trust OURSELVES.

You have never failed at a diet.

I repeat:  You have never failed at a diet.

Diets always fail and always will.  If you’ve let the weight loss/regain process erode your trust, there’s a bigger issue here to address.  If you’ve forgotten how to do that, come join the course!

Learning to trust is part of the process of re-educating ourselves for long-term success.  Non-diet weight loss is so much easier than the alternative and leads to permanent weight loss because we create a new lifestyle and the kind of deeper change that has positive effect on behavior.

Why Trusting Ourselves is Important

  1. It’s up to us.  We are responsible.
  2. Trust is essential to the process of developing natural eating and activity patterns based on your own, unique body cues.
  3. Attitude is the most important aspect of weight loss.  This requires “rewiring” the circuits in the brain.  It can be done and it helps establish or re-establish trust.
  4. To lose weight permanently, we have to learn to cut through subconscious emotions that sabotage progress; trust is vital to this process.
  5. Trust, once present, goes EVERYWHERE.  You don’t just suddenly leave it at home one day and abandon your deepest wishes.  It’s part of you, portable, accessible, and, therefore, powerful.

Think back to the times when you trusted yourself and really stepped into life.

Trusting may have felt a little wobbly at first.  It’s a leap.

But the leaps in life are important – that’s where we get to show up and put it all on the line.  That’s exciting and it’s memorable.

 

Diets, Deprivation and Permanent Weight Loss

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Working out at the gym today, I heard a personal trainer tell her client, “If you want to lose weight, you just gotta learn to deprive yourself!”

Oh, brother!

I used to be surprised when a “fitness professional” said stupid things.  Now, I don’t even blink. (more…)

How Food Habits Derail Weight Loss

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Eating and food habits challenge us when we are trying to lose weight.  Diets encourage eating in a different manner but habits have a way of coming back, reappearing just when you’re making progress, or getting to a comfortable weight or size.

Why?

One of my brilliant clients coined a new phrase last week when she said many of her food habits had become more engrained than simple habits – they had deepened into behaviors – they were like

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Understanding Diets v. Lifestyle Change

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We hear a lot about “lifestyle change” today.  In fact, most diets call themselves a “lifestyle change”, even the popular commercial ones that are nothing more than a prescribed food plan.

I guess it makes customers THINK they’re doing the big job, not the little (short-term) one.

 

My favorite “lifestyle change” quote came from a friend who dropped a lot of weight (temporarily) during the Phen-Fen pharmaceutical debacle.

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A Yearning Greater than Weight Loss

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A recent blog post by Shay Sorrells, who was on Season 8 of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” inspired this post.

I couldn’t find a place to comment on her blog, but I wanted to share my perspective on her “lessons.”

 

Do these people look like they will find their essence in those apples?

Shay called her post “The seven biggest mistakes I made after Loser” and they went like this:

  1. I stopped measuring… [food]
  2. I took a break… [she says another person suggested she do this and she listened] (more…)