FALL IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF…is our Mantra for “FALL.” It’s sometimes not enough to just take care of your body but when you FALL in love with taking care of your mind and body it can be life changing. What does it mean to fall in love with your mind and body? It means it’s about more than doing things just to do them or follow things just to follow them. It means you are doing it because you love the changes and the way it’s making you feel and you keep wanting more and more of that feeling.
In the beginning of the program (the first couple of weeks) you just need to get through the weeks to get to your Cheat Day. The Cheat Day is life saving as it helps you stay on program the other six weight loss days. But after a couple of weeks and after seeing some really nice changes – it should start to become more than getting through your 6 clean days to get to your Cheat Day. In fact, it should start to reverse. You should start to live for the six clean days. The Cheat Day is fun and always look forward to it, but your body and mind should begin to understand and take notice that you feel your very best on your six clean days. Mentally you start to look forward to them. At the end of the Cheat Day you can’t wait to eat clean the next day. You can’t wait for a couple of clean days to pass – so you can feel better and get back to the lighter and cleaner feeling you love. You can’t wait to get back on the track of eating clean knowing that you are back to fueling your body with healthy and clean eating and in return it’s working your numbers in the right direction. By mid week you should begin to get excited wondering what you will lose this week. Knowing how amazing you feel and loving how you look and knowing that you are fueling your body with clean foods you should also think about what you will lose – how much? The closer you are to your menu and the cleaner your eating, the more weight you will lose. Will you see a new number and will it be the lowest one you have seen in a long time? It is so exciting to take care of yourself to the point of loving it. Loving how you feel and loving how it’s changing you mentally and physically. When you love feeling good, healthy, lighter, fitter and thinner there is truly no better feeling and no better way to live. It’s a positive addiction that you should want and love.
Client story: I had a client come in this past weekend who has struggled since she started. She struggled for many reasons – food around the office, socializing, summer etc. – we all know there are always reasons to go off program. But what we started doing with her is focusing and thinking about the reasons to stay on program. What did it mean to her and how she felt when she was on program. How excited she was losing weight and feeling great. How much the number went down when she did the right thing but even more important how amazing she felt knowing that her weeks started to become 110% on program. Yes – it was mentally hard sometimes but she knew physically she was feeling so much better and that is what we focused on and that is what was making her mentally stronger.
Since we started the “positive” thinking and focusing on her six clean days it has made a big difference in many ways. The last couple of weeks she has lost weight every week. She felt good about herself and her whole attitude changed from being sad that she was struggling to so positive and happy that she looked forward to eating clean and staying on program. All of a sudden she was excited to come in and step on the scale. She couldn’t wait to see the number and what she had accomplished during the week. What I found most amazing was as she was walking out last week – she said “I am really excited to have my cheat day because I understand now how much more satisfying it is to have the cheat day when you are really true to yourself and you are really clean and 110% for 6 days. Yes it was hard to eat less and once I focused on my 3 meals and 3 snacks I realized that I was eating so much more than that and was still having a cheat day. The six days weren’t making me feel great and the cheat day wasn’t satisfying. Once I started focusing on my 3 meals and 3 snacks is when I started seeing the weight come off. I immediately started feeling better. It was hard not to take bites and sips like I was used to doing but sticking to exactly what I was supposed to made it easier. It also made me appreciate my cheat day because it is truly the ONLY DAY I AM CHEATING.” It’s one true sign when you know you have been so on program that you feel like you deserve that day and you earned it. Sometimes we get caught up with having the cheat day whether or not we were 110% all week – we still feel like we should have it. But the truth is, you need to be focused on how clean your week is and that will determine if you should have a cheat day.
This week try focusing on your six clean days instead of focusing on your Cheat Day. Think about each day and how good you feel when you go to bed because you followed the program and stayed 110% and think about how amazing you feel when you wake up. Whenever we do the right things for our body it changes us as people. We are happier, and proud of ourself and how we are treating our bodies. We are proud of the way we look and feel. I don’t think anyone can say that they don’t feel anything but amazing when they can get dressed in the morning and feel great in their clothes. If you want that to be you then you need to work for it. If you want to feel good all week then you need to stay focused and positive about your clean days. Don’t focus on the one Cheat Day – focus on how you feel the six clean days. Yes, you may feel hungry but what else? Think about positive things you feel – Lighter, healthier, thinner – and how do you feel when you followed all week and at the end of the week when you step on the scale – proud, super happy, like you want you jump around and tell the world you did it – you lost weight and feel great!
When you do the right things for you body, and make the right choices, and fuel your body with the right foods, you feel better. Some weeks will always be harder than others but if you stay true to what you want and what makes you feel the best and keep positive everyday knowing this is what makes you happy – then you will start Falling in love with what you are doing and what it’s doing for you. When this happens you will never want to go back to treating your body unhealthy – because you know feeling like that makes you unhappy. Why would you want to do anything that makes you unhappy or not feel good? Stay positive and remember what makes you feel your best and what makes the changes in your body the best it can be. Stay focused and positive on your six clean days and how they are changing your body and then you enjoy your Cheat Day.
POSITIVE THINKING: As much as you love and enjoy the Cheat Day you realize that every consecutive six days that you complete is what is changing your body. It’s changing how you look, it’s changing the scale and most important, it’s changing how you feel. When you fall in love with taking care of your body and fall in love with feeling the very best that you can – it no longer is about the one Cheat Day a week. It’s about the six clean days that you are fueling your body with healthy clean proportioned foods that make you feel your best.
There is no better feeling than taking care of yourself. There is no better feeling than doing the right thing for your body and your mind. There is no better feeling than being the best you can be.
“This life is yours – Fall in love with yourself”
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
Innovation Weight Loss and Fitness
8031 Jericho Tpke Woodbury, NY 11797
211 E 43rd Street Manhattan, NY 10019
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