Love Yourself Out of Self Sabotage and Lose Weight
Today’s exercise on Day 11 of Loving Yourself Thin is to affirm to yourself every time you see your reflection, “I love you and I support you. If you want to lose weight, I will help you, I’m on your side.” Repeat this when you look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, when you see your reflection in your computer monitor, when you see yourself in a storefront, anywhere you see your reflection.
As with the previous mirror work exercises so far in this series (Day 1, Day 3, Day 5, Day 6, Day 8), you can think this affirmation instead of repeating it aloud if there are others around. 
This exercise will be very helpful to you if you have 2 sides of yourself that have been working against each other in regards to weight loss: one side dearly wants to treat yourself better, eat healthy, exercise regularly, lose weight, and the other side is bent on sabotaging your efforts. You want to get both sides of yourself on the same page, both sides working for the same goal instead of one part of you continuing to sabotage your goals.
When you look in your eyes in the mirror and say, “If you want to lose weight, I will help you, I’m on your side“, that is the side of yourself that has been working against you now telling you that it will work with you. I’ve had struggles with self-sabotage and when I do today’s mirror work, I really feel a difference.
Are you experiencing any changes yet in your attitude towards yourself and your body? If you’ve been doing these exercises since Day 1, I would love to hear about your progress!
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This is very helpful. Sometimes criticisms from other people would tend to strain you from your goal of losing weight but if you self-motivate, this is a very effective way to go! Thanks for the tip.
Hi, and thanks for your comments. That is true that some people do take criticism from others personally and then derail from their weight loss goals. This exercise though, is about loving and supporting yourself out of self-sabotage, getting that sabotaging side of yourself “on your side”.
jolynn, this is a great series. i particularly like this instalment. the older i get, the more i become aware of how very, very important it is to have support. including self-support. great work.
Hi Isabella!
Thank you so much for giving me your feedback, I’m really happy to know that these exercises are coming across in a helpful, positive way like they are intended.
Your comment reminds me of a the beginning of a show I listened to yesterday on http://www.hayhouseradio.com. It’s in the archives (it’s free to sign up to listen to them), under the Dear Venus show (Venus Andrecht), titled, “The House Ants and My Mother”. She talks about getting older and getting support from others, and does it in quite a humorous way. I love Hay House radio, very positive, inspirational, and intuitive.