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What is not to Love about Fall?!
FALL IN LOVE WITH TAKING CARE OF YOUR BODY: Sometimes it’s not enough to just take care of your body. When you FALL in love with taking care of your mind and body it can be life changing. It doesn’t matter where you are right now — if you are just starting, have been on program or returning… wherever you are the most important thing to start with is to remind yourself daily how important it is to feel good about yourself and how happy it makes you when you are doing the right things — and you are the only person that can make that happen.
DON’T JUST DO THE PROGRAM — LIVE THE PROGRAM
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 six 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 your 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. The closer you are to your menu 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.
TRUE STORY: Clients literally text me all the time and say “I have to start sending my food again”, or “I have to get back on program.” A client just texted me yesterday and said “I have to get back on program. I don’t know why I go off program every time I am off program I am miserable and when I’m on program doing the right things and taking care of my body I am so happy. My husband told me last night it’s time to get back to Josephine. He didn’t say it because of the weight he said it because he knows how happy and good I feel when I am on program and he sees how miserable I am when I’m off.” MY RESPONSE: YAY!!!! — that of course makes me so happy! I never want anyone unhappy but it absolutely thrills me when clients realize that being on program is when they are the happiest. They are the happiest because they feel the best. So why do we go off program when being on makes us so happy? The answer is simple — no matter how great being on program makes us feel we will always have little slip ups and hiccups because life gets in the way. And once it’s in the way and we lose that control — our brain takes over and it can take days, weeks and sometimes months to get back on path. But the most important thing is that you do get back on path because you know that is when you feel the absolute best!
FOCUS: 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 100%, 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 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… you feel lighter, healthier, thinner — and how you feel when you followed all week and at the end of that week you step on the scale — so proud, super happy, like you want to jump around and tell the world you did it — you followed you lost weight and you feel great!!
FALLING IN LOVE WITH WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHAT IT’S DOING FOR YOU: When you do the right things for your 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 will truly enjoy your cheat day.
LOVE THE RESULTS: As much as you love and enjoy the Cheat Day you realize that every consecutive six clean 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 our 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 you body with healthy clean portioned 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.
“LOVE YOURSELF INSIDE AND OUT”
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
