Overcoming Self sabotage

Things are going great, you’re sticking to the principles, eating only when you’re hungry, stopping when you’re satisfied and you are really enjoying the freedom to eat all foods! And… you’ve lost 3kg in the last 2 weeks – this is incredible!

Then you:

a)      Overeat at one meal and curse yourself for having no willpower

b)      Start thinking this is all a bit too easy, isn’t weight loss supposed to be hard?

c)       Get stressed, angry, sad…whatever emotion has sent you running to the cupboards before and think, here I go again I’m so weak!

d)      All of the above

Your excess weight is not a physical reflection of your weakness, lack of willpower or consistent failings. It is a reflection of how you feel about yourself on the inside and how you talk to yourself. 

For some distorted reason we think that making ourselves feel bad will lead to making ourselves slim..well that’s a lie.

The truth is that practicing unyielding compassion for yourself and giving unconditional love to yourself are key ways out of self sabotage…No, not putting padlocks on the fridge ladies, not asking hubby to tell you off as you reach for the last Tim Tam! Those are just ways to beat yourself up for being, weak, a failure and not able to be trusted! 

Instead of choosing self sabotage today choose to be:

a)      Self supportive

b)      Self loving

c)       Self compassionate

d)      All of the above

What will you choose?