Motivational Secrets

Motivational Secrets

How to stay motivated to lose weight by ending self-sabotage.

 

Wondering how to stay motivated to lose weight?

First, it's important to know that the only thing between you and what you want is your primitive/survival brain.

 Your survival brain is programmed to be efficient, avoid pain, and seek pleasure.

In that way, we are very like every other creature on this planet.

Even an amoeba will move toward food, away from danger, and avoid wasting energy whenever possible.

That's the gear that got us here.

The problem is, for most of us, survival is kind of a given.

And we want more than mere survival, right?

We want to thrive.

To succeed in this new phase of human history, we have to not be efficient (aka lazy) and put in the work to make our dreams come true.

We need to move toward pain – to open our hearts to hear what others are saying and to see what we can learn about ourselves from our reaction to it.

We need to avoid pleasure – at least excessive, engineered pleasure as it comes in the form of food products.

We have to reverse everything that's gotten us this far.

That's why it feels so awkward and so weird.

But the good news is that we can do it. 

 We can clear our limiting beliefs.

We can make a decision to plan ahead of time and to follow our plan despite the fact that we don't want to in the moment.

We can overcome, we can achieve, and we can do more than we thought possible.

 So you see, the answer to the question of how to stay motivated to lose weight is just to remove what's stopping you from doing what you want to do, allowing weight loss to come with ease.

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The Secret to Being A Happy Human

The Secret to Being A Happy Human

Weight Loss a Secret to Happiness?

Are you wondering if weight loss is a secret to happiness?

The culture definitely tells us it's true.

That if we can just look the way we are supposed to look, we'll feel the way we are supposed to feel.

So is it true that weight loss is a secret to happiness?

Well, I think I may have figured out the secret to being a happy human.

If you can realize you are safe in this moment-

If you can learn to recognize and own your good qualities-

If you can look at, embrace, and forgive what you are ashamed of with compassion-

If you can speak your truth and ask for what you want without trying to control-

If you can accept the reality of what is and even see the beauty in it-

Then you can start to relax and enjoy the ride.

From this base of acceptance we then can set a vision for where we want to go… while at the same time surrendering to the divine.

As women over 40, we are taught that weight loss is the secret to happiness.

And the truth is, I do feel better – physically, mentally, emotionally, now that I've improved my health by losing weight in my 40s.

But I don't just feel better because I'm skinnier.

I feel better because of HOW I lost the weight.

For me, my effort to lose weight to improve my appearance and my physical health opened the door to a journey of self-discovery.

I learned how to carve out time for myself in my schedule.

I learned how to carve out investing in my mental and physical well-being in my budget.

I learned how to change what my past meant to me, so my past was no longer controlling my future.

So yes, weight loss can be a secret to happiness – if you use your weight loss journey as a way to heal your past, soothe your inner child, learn self-love, self-acceptance, and a bunch of other hippie nonsense I thought I didn't need, but which ended up being the keys to both weight loss and happiness for me.

What do you think?

What am I missing?

What’s working for you?

​Email me at lisa@lisaduke.net to let me know.