Hello and welcome,
A popular adage in the Martha Beck coaching community is teach what you know.
The idea is that having lived through something gives us a unique perspective. Especially if we are trained to be observers, self-coaches, and chroniclers.
Those who know me know that recently I’ve been living through some stuff.
And boy, have I been self-coaching and getting coached by professionals.
I’ve been getting rid of habitual beliefs and thought patterns that do not serve me by the truck load, and one of the most externally visible effects of all this coaching is my weight loss.
I’d been considerably overweight for the past three years. Every week I swore that this was the week I’d . . .
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•clean up my diet
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•stop eating two hot fudge sundaes a day
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•stop believing that a single serving is the entire loaf of bread, or the entire bag of Doritos.
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•start using butter as a condiment rather than a beverage (thanks for that one, Martha!)
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•exercise more; eat less
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•treat myself better
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•start a food journal; count calories; measure portion size
Basically, do all the things I know I need to do in order to lose the weight.
And it didn’t work.
No matter how much or how hard I pushed or forced myself to take action it didn’t work.
It wasn’t until I began cleaning up my thoughts - many of which had nothing to do with my weight that my weight changed.
HUH?!
Yes, changing my THOUGHTS changed my weight. Of course I also changed my eating habits but those just seemed to happen. It was almost effortless.
Almost. Effortless. Changing thoughts and beliefs takes work. It requires you to be brave, to keep going even when faced with fear, to question many thoughts you hold tightly. It takes guts and stamina.
I know you have courage. I know you have guts and stamina. And somewhere inside you, you know it too.
You can lose the weight. You can be healthier. You can be be healthier in body and mind.
And won’t that be wonderful?
