Archive for the "Affirmations" category

 

Do Panic Attacks & Stress Have You Running to the Frig?

 

Welcome to week two of my 15-week series in my latest experiment on myself here at The Fit Shack. In this experiment I’m using Lucinda Bassett’s program Attacking Anxiety & Depression on myself.
In this series I’m reporting my weekly experiences with you like I did in my emotional eating experiment, my ban on refined sugar [...]

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Turning 5 Weight Loss Fears Into Motivation

 

Yesterday we looked at 10 fears that could be draining your weight loss motivation. If you haven’t read that post yet please do, otherwise this post might not make much sense. Besides that, yesterday’s post was meant to stir up your thoughts and help you discover whether or not you have any fears that are [...]

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To Lose Weight, Keep On Loving Yourself!

 

Here we are at Day 31 of Loving Yourself Thin. If you’ve completed each of the previous exercises in the series, I can imagine how much better you are feeling about yourself today than you did when you started on Day One. I mentioned that I would be doing each of these exercises along with [...]

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Loving Yourself Thin - The Power of Mirror Work

 

We’ve done many positive affirmations during this 31 Days of Loving Yourself Thin, and today’s exercise is more mirror work: go to the mirror, look yourself in the eyes, and repeat 10 times, “I love you! I am willing to love you more today than I did yesterday. I love you and I support you”. [...]

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Forgive Your Past Actions to Lose Weight Today

 

On Day 10 we looked at possible ways you could be holding yourself back from moving forward with your weight loss efforts. For example, if you have repeatedly lost weight and then regained it (plus some!), been trying diet after diet, and if you have been on this roller coaster for years, you can see [...]

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Lose Weight by Making Yourself a Priority

 

It’s Day 28 in the 31 Days of Loving Yourself Thin series and I’m asking, “What can you do today to show yourself that you love you”? What is something fun and non-food related that you can get out and do, something that maybe you haven’t done for a while because you’ve told yourself that [...]

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How To Lose Weight by Meeting Your Needs Without Food

 

Today is Day 27 in the series 31 Days of Loving Yourself Thin, and here’s something that gave me a laugh today - a couple days ago on Thursday (day 25), I asked you the question, “what do you really want from food?” There was an exercise that went along with that question, and at [...]

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Love Yourself Thin - Is It Really Possible?

 

Can you really love yourself thin? Don’t you have to work hard and just force yourself to diet and exercise in order to lose weight? Isn’t it a dream to think that you can Love Yourself Thin?
Have you had any thoughts like this while doing the exercises in the 31 Days of Loving Yourself Thin [...]

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