Respect Yourself
I finished last week by talking about self image: you must accept your body, for better or worse, exactly where it is right now. I used the phrase that you have “to love yourself.” Along with that, you have to respect yourself as well. Maybe that’s even harder to do. Most of us aren’t able to get past the times we’ve failed in our weight loss efforts. We lost 30, 40, maybe even 100 pounds, and those pounds always seemed to find their way back. That can make us feel like we’ve lost self control.
With the loss of control comes the loss of respect. I wish I could snap my fingers and say “Stop that!” and it’s over, but it just doesn’t work that way. As you work toward loving yourself, learn to respect your prior efforts, even if they didn’t result in permanent weight loss. If you go back and examine it, you’ll find something that you learned. Chalk that up as a partial success and something you use to guide your efforts in the future if you decide to try again.
You have to think in a different way from society. There’s a lot of negativity out there and for some reason, people think they should point out that “You could stand to lose some weight—you’ll feel better.” That makes no one feel better.
There’s one place that seems to be more demotivating than just about any place else. Think on that until Thursday; I think you’ll be surprised where that is.
What are you prepared to do today?
