From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 71
A setback doesn’t have to ruin your weight-loss efforts. Instead of considering it a disaster, view a setback as a gift.
Let it be a time of learning and renewal, rather than a dent in your belief that you can be successful. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 70
Once you allow yourself to think about the pain in your life, you will become more willing to feel it.
With time, you’ll experience healing and peace instead of eating to push your feelings away. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 69
Hurt feelings typically represent some type of loss, and it’s important that you allow yourself to feel sadness or grief.
Instead of reaching for food as a way to heal, figure out ways you can let the feelings go and take care of your heart. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 68
The word guilty serves as a cover-up for a less acceptable emotion. When you peek underneath your guilty feelings, you may discover a whole list of emotions.
The next time you feel guilty about something, ask yourself, “If I wasn’t feeling guilty, what would I be feeling?” [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 67
Recognize areas where you are holding a hot coal, and make a conscious decision to let go of it.
Work on healing your heart, and you’ll probably find that eating to punish someone else will stop as well. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 66
This lesson still makes me laugh as I remember the night I kicked the kettles. Such a funny event, but it brought lots of laughter and relief from stress and loneliness.
During times when we’re hurting or feeling weak and vulnerable, it’s easy to think that eating will fix the problem. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 65
Changing the way you show feelings doesn’t have to be traumatic.
You can start gradually, as I did, by expressing your emotions on a limited basis. Eventually, demonstrating your feelings will become easier and more enjoyable. [Read more…]
For today’s lesson, instead of answering the three questions, I’m sharing a longer version of my personal story about emotional eating.
It’s not easy for me to do this because it reminds me of sadness in my life that never goes away completely. But as a way to help you understand emotional eating, I’m opening my heart to show you my own struggles toward a healthier relationship with food. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 18
On the left side of a piece of paper, write the words, I feel, and on the right side write, because of. Choose a situation or event to explore and in the left column, write a word to describe how you feel about it.
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 62
Recovering your feelings doesn’t mean you have to start pounding your fists and screaming.
You simply need to move out of the neutral zone and rebuild your enthusiasm for life. [Read more…]