00:00 – SPEAKER JOSEPHINE

Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy show. I’m Josephine Fitzpatrick. Today’s episode is how good is your commitment to yourself? That’s the question I want you to ask yourself how committed are you to yourself? I know you are committed to your family, your friends, work, school, whatever you have going on in your life. I’m sure you’re very committed and it’s great to be committed to all those things. But how committed are you to yourself? That is what I want you to think about today, because I can tell you one thing about your health and weight loss it takes 100% commitment and I know many of you will agree with me.

00:47

No one is perfect. You can enjoy and have fun and splurge, but still stay committed. It’s more a matter of how often you’re splurging, and enjoying is what will determine how long it will take you to get results. I mean, it’s quite simple. If you think about it. You are either amazing 100% of the time, with one cheat day a week, and you get 100% results, or maybe you are 80-20 and then you’ll see 80% results. Some are 50-50 and they get 50% results, and some are even 30-70 and they get 30% results. That’s okay, but when you look at this, I want you to think where do you fall in these results? And be honest with yourself. This is you against you, where do you really fall in these results? And that will determine how committed you are to yourself.

01:28

First, you have to be honest with yourself because you can’t change anything until you are honest with yourself. So if you’re lying to yourself, you’re going to stay exactly where you are. But when you can look at the truth, that is when you can change it. And remember the truth isn’t always bad, even when you’re not great. As long as you know you’re not great. As long as you can look at yourself and say, okay, I haven’t been great, I’ve been giving it about 30%, that’s why I’m getting these results. Okay, but you know that. And now you can change it. Or you can just work toward the 100%. That’s what I want you to think about, because while you’re figuring out where you fall in all of this commitment, remember just because you had one 30% week doesn’t mean the next week can’t be 100%

Weight Loss is hard, there is temptation around every corner, so everyone does not start out at 100%. Many do, but not everyone. Some start with 30% or 50%, and that is okay when you’re honest with yourself and you’re honest about it, you can give 50%, as long as you don’t quit, as long as you keep working to 100%. Because, we have to remember, many times it takes that time of training, your appetite and your stomach to shrink before you can ever get to 100%. I see it with clients all the time. It doesn’t just happen.

02:46

This is why I say you can’t go from eating everything to eating nothing. You have to take the steps along the way. And I can’t stress enough. Everyone’s steps are different. Some go fast, others go slow. Everyone is different.

03:00

You have to do you and you have to focus on your commitment to you. And when you do, that is when you will keep working every day on your health and your weight loss and then eventually you will get to 100%. And even when you do get to 100%, it doesn’t mean it will stay there. You may get to 100% and be there for two or three weeks and then all of a sudden something comes up, like a vacation or a holiday, or a big social event. And now that week you can barely give 30%, but that’s okay. You have to be okay with these weeks, because the most important thing about these weeks is you just don’t give up. You know you’re only going to be 30%, but you know you’re going to work toward that 100% the following week. You have to keep that mindset positive and say it’s okay. I had a 30% week. I had a lot going on. I knew I was going on vacation. I didn’t want to be 100%,

But next week I’m going to have a much better week. I’m going to get right back. I’m going to get right back to being 100%, or maybe you’ll go back to being 70%, and that is okay too. But you have to be okay with it and just know you’re moving forward and keep trying hard and you will get to where you want to be. Like I said, if you’re giving 70, that’s what your results are going to be. You may get there slower. If you’re giving 30, you may get there like a turtle, that’s okay. But if you’re giving 100, you’re going to be a shark and you’re going to get there a lot faster. As long as you’re okay with it and just know where you are, be honest with yourself about it and keep moving forward.

04:24

Now that is something I want to bring up. Let’s talk about how fast up, let’s talk about how fast. I think this is something that so many have to come to terms with. We tend to go into weight loss with I want this weight off tomorrow. I’m working so hard, I’m hungry. I’m only seeing a pound or five pounds in six weeks. Whatever the case is, you just feel like it’s so slow and, trust me, I have clients who lost five pounds in a week and they still tell me it should be more. And I’m like well, you know, talk to the person who worked just as hard as you for your five pounds and they only lost one, and I think they would disagree that your five pounds should be more. Everyone is different and if you lose five pounds in a week, you should be thrilled.

But the point I’m trying to make is that you can’t go in just wanting it to be over, because it’s never over, just like every fad diet you have done, and now with the ozempics, the wagovi, you know, once you stop, the weight is coming back. I already have so many people have come back to me who were on those drugs and they came back after they stopped and gained the weight back. You know, when you go off it, eventually your body’s going to go back to where it was and what it was doing because you never learned how to deal with food, or deal with temptations or shrink your appetite.

05:32

What happens when you’re on program, and this is so important, your appetite shrinks. That’s the whole point of the steps. Even if you’re starting at 30 and working to 50, and then 70, your appetite keeps shrinking. Clients tell me all the time I can’t believe it. My appetite shrunk. I can’t even eat that much anymore. My stomach’s full. So think about that, because it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and that is a big part of the program when I start you on the regular Innovation and then incorporate the 5 hour, and detox. It’s all to help you learn to shrink your appetite.

05:57

So when you go on program and you just want it over, it’s usually because you’re hungry and you want to go back to eating the way you were. You don’t want to have that restriction, but you need that restriction in order for you to lose the weight. It all goes hand in hand. You get frustrated because the weight isn’t coming off as fast as you want it and you’re trying so hard and I agree – you are trying so hard. I don’t care if you’re giving 30, 70, or 100%. You’re always trying, no matter where you are.

But once your appetite shrinks and that’s usually after three to four weeks, is when clients will start to tell me wow, I’m not even hungry anymore. I can’t believe how fast my appetite shrunk. It takes time. You have to get through those first couple of weeks of being a little hungry, embrace it and know it’s okay. Of course you’re hungry because, whether you’re 30, 90, or 100% on program, you’re eating less than what your body is used to, and that’s why you are hungry, but it’s also why you are losing weight.

06:51

I’m going to keep this podcast short today, but I want to tell you my final thoughts. My final thoughts for you are stay in a positive mindset. I know it can be hard, but you have to really work on it, because the more positive you are about yourself and your commitment is how you are going to live. Negative people live in negative lives and positive people live in positive lives. That’s a very true statement. Every study has shown positive people are happy people.

07:19

One way to start by living in a positive mindset is to change your words. Change the story you’d live in. Change the story you tell yourself every day. Instead of I can’t, say I can or I want to. I want to is even better. You want this. You want to live healthy. You want to think positive. You know you want this. You can do it.

07:39

It’s so easy to live negative, it’s so easy to say I can’t. That’s the easy way out and that will keep you stuck exactly where you are. But when you can embrace the positivity and live in the attitude of gratitude for everything you have and that includes every opportunity. Because you have you have the opportunity every day to be happy, to do the right things, to live healthy. You have these opportunities every day and it’s up to you to live them.

So today, this week, this month, this year, I want you to remember the more you’re in a positive mindset, the more committed you will be to yourself. And the more committed you are to yourself, the better you will feel and live both mentally and physically in your life. And that is when you will feel amazing and that is when you will see your results. Okay, that is all I have for now. I hope this helps. I am wishing everyone a happy, healthy week full of love. Hugs from me to all of you.

~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick 

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