Do you know the secret that all top sports stars and Olympic athletes have in common? They use the power of their mind, their thoughts, the power of their imagination to visualize themselves at their end goal.
Olympic athletes see themselves crossing that finish line first, executing that dive perfectly, doing the perfect landing off of the vault, or being the first one to touch that touch pad on the wall of the pool. If you’ve been watching the Summer Olympics you can see this in action before the top athletes start their events - they pep themselves up with positive self-talk, they tell themselves they can do it, they look towards the finish line and they see themselves at their goal before the race even starts.
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Have you ever said to another person that, “actions speak louder than words”? If you have then you’ve had the experience of someone telling you that they love you but their actions showed you something completely different. They may have said, “I love you” but you hardly ever saw them; there was always something else that was their priority and their priority was not you.
Well what are you telling yourself when you feed your body low-quality fuel and don’t give it regular exercise? What are your actions showing your body when you don’t take the time to relax and rest? Are your actions showing you that you love you?
Show YOU How Much You Care
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Here we are at week six already in my self-experiment series with Lucinda Bassett’s program Attacking Anxiety and Depression.
So far in the past 5 weeks we’ve learned about:
- the symptoms of stress and anxiety,
- that panic attacks might be sending you to the frig,
- that negative thinking is the main downfall of any weight loss program,
- how dropping your unrealistic weight loss expectations will give you better results,
- and surprise surprise, the fact that what you eat and drink can make you feel anxious and depressed.
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I had a wonderful time bringing you my 12-week series on emotional eating a few months ago while I was experimenting on myself with the Shrink Yourself program. And hey, if you missed it, you can still check it out - my introductory post to the series lists links to all 12 updates.
Shrink Yourself is an awesome program if you’ve been struggling with overeating, food, and overweight for most of your life and you are an emtotional eater. In fact if you have been struggling that long, going back and forth with your weight, then you more than likely do have some issues with emotional eating.
What Is Emotional Eating?
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