The Key to Effective Weight Loss: Forgive Yourself

One of the keys to effective weight loss is to forgive yourself. Maybe you refuse to forgive yourself because you’re not where you want to be in your life at this exact moment in time. Or maybe you made a mistake or lots of mistakes and you can’t seem to get it right no matter how hard you try, and you find that your choices are taking you further from where you want to be. Or maybe you failed spectacularly and now you just want to go into your room and shut the door and not come out again.

But beating yourself up in any way is not going to help you lose the weight & keep it off. It isn’t going to help you grow either. The only thing that is going to help you is to forgive yourself.

For effective weight loss, forgive yourself as may times as it takes

You’re going to make mistakes. You’re human so it’s okay. You are not alone. In fact, you’re actually in excellent company with the rest of us who can’t get it right on the first try or the second or the tenth or ninety-eight for that matter. You need to forgive yourself for whatever you did or failed to do. For effective weight loss, you need to forgive yourself over and over. As many times as you screw up is how many times you need to forgive yourself.

You need to forgive yourself for effective weight loss & so you don’t get stuck

When you refuse to forgive yourself, it’s really easy to get stuck in a cycle:

• You refuse to forgive yourself then you
• feel bad about yourself then you
• abuse some substance or behavior (including food) to try to numb that feeling.
• Well, then that’s another mistake you made by abusing food to solve your problem, then you
• refuse to forgive yourself for doing that and you
• feel bad and you
• abuse something else.

And on it goes in a big circle that never ends until you end it. So, do yourself a kindness, and choose to end that cycle right now by forgiving yourself.

You don’t need anyone else’s permission to forgive yourself

You might be waiting around for someone else to forgive you for what you did or didn’t do. Or maybe you’re waiting for someone else to tell you it’s okay to forgive yourself. All that time you spend waiting is all that time you can never get back. The only permission you ever need to forgive yourself is your own. Now the question is: will you?

For effective weight loss, give yourself unlimited tries

It doesn’t matter how much you screw up. It doesn’t even matter how colossal a mistake it was. The only thing that matters when you do something or fail to do something is that you learn what you can, come at it from a wiser perspective the next time, and try again.

You have to be the one to give yourself permission to screw up as many times as it takes to get it right because the only other alternative is to quit. And if you quit, you do two things:

1. you give up on yourself and
2. you’ll never get to where you want to be.

Just keep this in mind: The only person limiting the number of tries you get is you.

The only way you’re going to find peace is to forgive yourself

When you refuse to forgive yourself, you’ve got an internal war going on. You’re never going to find any kind of peace (or effective weight loss, for that matter) while you’re battling yourself. The only thing that not forgiving yourself is going to do is make you feel unsettled or like it’s hard to be in your own skin.

Honestly, do yourself a kindness and don’t spend your time that way. Forgiving yourself is a choice and it doesn’t have to be long and drawn out. You just forgive yourself right away and you move on, that’s it. That’s all you have to do to find both effective weight loss and inner peace.

Get off the diet-go-round. Get on with your life.^®

Stop wishing, start doing.
Create your own weight loss before and after success story.

My weight loss transformation & how it can help you have effective weight loss

You absolutely can break the diet cycle. I got free. Your life can be that way too.

I made my own path because I needed to get myself out of the crazy-making behavior I was having around food. I needed:

• no more dieting.
• no more restrictive eating.
• no weighing and measuring food.
• no off-limit foods.
• no more judgment around food.
• no more trying to figure out healthy eating or just what healthy foods to eat.
• no more judging my self-worth based on the scale.
• no more you’re-not-doing-it-perfectly diet rules that were only fueling my constant thinking about and obsession with food.

I needed to stop: searching for weight loss tips, wondering how to lose belly fat fast or how to lose weight fast, worrying about how to eat healthy or finding healthy snacks for weight loss, coming up with yet another healthy eating plan, trying to have quick weight loss, or forcing myself onto yet another weight loss diet. What I needed instead was to find, out of all the weight loss programs out there, the best weight loss program for me. Turns out, the best way to lose weight was to find out what works for me and do that.

• I’ve lost 160+ pounds naturally by simply trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and eating intuitively).
• I have maintained that weight loss for 9 years and counting by trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and intuitive eating).
• I no longer have any eating disorders, including bulimia (bulimia nervosa) and binge eating disorder (compulsive overeating).
• I no longer have a fear of food.

Just imagine what you could be doing with your life if you’d just commit to having your own before and after weight loss success story. You could be: following your own dreams and reaching your own goals, cultivating your own passions, and making both your inner and outer worlds a more blissful and peaceful place.

I got that for my life. I want it for yours. I will teach you how.

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Let today be the day you make peace with your body and with food.

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