I’m told, you’re told, we’re all told — everyday — all of the healthy lifestyle changes we need to make to be the best version of ourselves — to lose weight — and to feel better than we do today. In my experience with my students, those totally deserving and wonderfully apt people, who also have one teeny bad habit of judging themselves, face a cavernous gap standing between them and their body goals. The worst part of it all is: judging yourself is like a spade in the ground, digging deeper and deeper every swing of the blade, making the pit ever-harder to cross.
I’ve helped thousands of women overcome this ominous gulf and I can help you too.
Judging yourself harshly can lead to epic health issues (including weight gain)
Stress caused internally is the toxic. (Stress inflicted externally can be managed) It becomes a serious problem when stress management techniques are inept. This can wreak havoc on our ability to live lean (and … not mean).
“A study by the University of Kentucky suggests that when it comes to weight-loss success, what you eat may not be as important as what’s eating you”
(Women’s Health)
The days when we solely focussed on physical properties to cure physical ailments has been long coming to a close. Thank goodness for us! After being absolutely baffled by the purely physical nature of reality, science has turned its gaze towards measuring how ethereal and even imaginative phenomena can make biological impacts on not only our health, but the genetic expression of our DNA.
Stress adversely affects your health, so much so it can actually cause disease (American Psychological Association).
It leads well-respected Doctors, like Harvard educated physician Sara Gottfried, to place special interest on how we feel and how we manage the aspects of life that perhaps don’t feel all that well. Your emotions, my emotions, the strategy by which we process, deal and manage these emotions, all play a crucial role in our health and well-being.
“Manage stress like your life depends on it, because it does”
(Dr. Sara Gottfried)
Finding Comfort for Peace, Health & Ideal Body Composition
Judging ourselves is the painful, misguided outcome or being judged and taught to judge by others. There is no other way to undo this programming other than bringing awareness to it and rewriting the code by dealing with the stressors that inspire our Self-Talk Tool to betray us.
A well-aligned, properly programmed Self-Talk Tool can, and will, support us in times of crisis (real or imagined) and be the constant guide on the road to getting in our best health and … even lose weight.
Stress affects your metabolism, cravings, blood sugar and fat storage (VeryWellMind).
Get ahold of Stress, Anxiety & Inward Criticism
The quickest and sure-fire way to begin resetting your automatic stress responses is to create a strategy like STOP:
Stop.
Take a breath.
Observe.
Proceed.
This strategy I’m sharing with you today is a tool to OBSERVE clearly what is happening when an unhealthy reaction to stress (a distraction or defence) pops up to steal your positive thunder and lay waste to your well-laid plans.
Create your Emotional Needs Strategy
You can get a copy of this Emotional Needs Checklist here and follow along with me now or anytime you need.
