ARE YOU REALLY TRYING YOUR BEST?
How often we say it. How often we promise to do it. Yet, how rarely do we actually do the best we can? When we do — when we use all our efforts, when we push through old and new boundaries — the satisfaction is enormous and the rewards are sweeter because we earned them. But the first thing you have to come to terms with is your best really your best? Mindset is everything when it comes to weight loss. When you wake up in the morning and tell yourself — “That’s it!” — You are tired of giving every one else your best, NOW you are going to give yourself your best too!! You are going to put yourself in a place that no matter what — you will do the right thing. You will make sure you walk away when you have to and you will plan, prepare and follow through each day. You not only promise yourself — but you fight through the tough times and you don’t let anything or anyone set you back. So don’t just SAY you are going to try your best THINK IT, BELIEVE IT AND DO IT. Because if you believe that you are going to be amazing then you will be amazing and if you think it’s too hard you can’t do it — you won’t do it.
From the time you wake up in the morning how you think about yourself and your day is going to have a huge impact on your results. Last week we went over how important it is to Fall in love with taking care of yourself. This week I want you to continue that but be excited about it. Be excited about the scale. Be excited about feeling good. Be excited about doing the right things…. And be excited because you are in control of your life and you make the decisions on whether or not you want to live healthy, be thin and feel amazing. No one makes those choices for you. How exciting that you get to wake up today and decide that you want to take care of your body, your mind, your health. You want to work hard toward a goal and you are the only one who can get in the way of that goal. What you want, how bad you want it and hard you work for it will determine your success. How amazing is that — and how EXCITING!
Keep the NEGATIVE OUT: Keep the negative people away, and keep the negative emotions out of your mind. Negative people will always be around. Sometimes we can control their presence and sometimes we can’t. But you always CAN control what you take from them. If you have no choice to be around negative people then it’s important to keep your mindset extra strong. Don’t let them take you to their dark side. Don’t let them talk you into ordering something you don’t want. Don’t let them convince you how hard weight loss is (we already know how hard it is no one has to tell us). Most of all don’t let them take you off your path. Unfortunately even our closest people can take us off our healthy path just because they are in a bad place. The bottom line is misery loves company. It doesn’t mean they don’t love you it just means they want you to share in their misery at that moment. What you do and how you react is your choice. And while it may only be one bad day for them — that one bad moment for you might take you off your path for a week — and then where does that leave you? Stick to what works for — if they love you they will be okay with it. If they are not okay with it then you should re-evaluate your people.
POSITIVE PEOPLE ARE HAPPY PEOPLE
KEEP THE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS OUT OF IT: I can’t, it’s too hard, im sick of it, I should weigh less by now, I want to be at my goal already, they made me do it. I didn’t want to go off I had no choice ……. I can literally go on with this list forever. I have heard it all. If you want to change your results – THEN CHANGE YOUR WORDS. The words you tell yourself are the words you will live — so every time you catch yourself being negative — STOP AND PAUSE and then reverse it. Even if you don’t feel it reverse it anyway and keep your words and thoughts positive. The more you do it the more it will become second nature. No one wants to hear you crying — You don’t even want to hear you crying. Everyone has their own problems and is trying to get through their own tough days. Im sure you are even sick of listening to all the negative excuses that comes out of your mouth — so think of how your family and friends feel. Negative talk does nothing but create negative actions which result in negative results. KEEP IT POSITIVE- POSITIVE -POSITIVE! The more positive you talk to yourself the better results you will think….. The more positive you results you think the more positive you will speak…… the more positive results you speak the better results you will feel. While I know you already know all of this — it never hurts to be reminded so you can reevaluate your words, thoughts and environment. We can fool others. But we can’t fool ourselves. When you are honest with yourself it will bring freedom for you to work harder. Only you truly know what your best is. And when you give less than your best those are the results you have to live with.
IT’S YOUR HAPPY HEALTHY LIFE YOU ARE WORKING SO HARD FOR
MAKE SURE YOU ARE TRULY TRYING YOUR REAL BEST
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
