Lose Weight Find Life

Do you have a role model?  Of course, you don’t need one but many times when you’re dieting or making any changes in your life, it helps to have a mentor or someone that has accomplished what you’re doing.  Someone, such as a weight loss coach, can provide support and help you achieve your goals that’s been there, done that. 

Find someone that has achieved what you are trying to do or that has the character traits you want for yourself.  Watch what they do and how they do it.  Talk with them about their personal experiences, challenges along the way they overcame, and their ultimate success.  This will enhance reaching your own goals.  Allow yourself to admire their achievements and emulate their actions to reach your own success.

A role model has what you want in your life.  Use their personal experience to help move you forward to reach your goals. 

You don’t have to do it alone.  A role model or mentor is someone that understands and can partner with you.  Reach out to reach your weight loss success.

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, CLC
Certified Life Coach, Weight Loss Surgery Coach

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than you think.”  ~Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

One of the common things I hear from my clients are the old tapes that run through our head.  The negative things we say to ourselves don’t assist us in any way.  Just as with any change, the negative self-talk tapes are habits.  Create a new habit of more positive, nurturing and empowering messages. 

Become aware of the things that you say to yourself.  If you had a family member or friend say the things that you say to yourself, would you keep them in your life?  Definitely not!  When you notice a negative, old tape of a limiting message, say to yourself or even out loud, “NO, THIS IS AN OLD MESSAGE AND DOES NOT APPLY TO ME TODAY.”  Replace the message with a positive and more accurate tape. 

Treat yourself in the loving way that you treat others.  You deserve nothing less than the best!

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach, Weight Loss Surgery Coach

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.  -Norman Vincent Peale

Is this a great quote or what? So many times problems seem overwhelming or insurmountable. I like this quote because it is a reminder that the solution lies in the problem….we just need to find the solution right for us. It means to me making lemonade when life hands you lemons!!

The solution is found in the problem and not inside the refrigerator!!!

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach, Weight Loss Surgery

As we celebrate our country’s independence tomorrow, celebrate your own.  From changing our lifestyle and our habits, we have changed our relationship with food.  Rather than being a slave and victim to food, we are now free and independent of the limitations of emotional eating.  You are free!!!  You are independent!! 

I look forward to celebrating Independence Day, our liberties, our freedom, and what it means personally to me.  I also look forward to celebrating my own personal Independence Day, my liberty from being a slave to food, my freedom from emotional eating, and what my life today means to me.  I encourage you to do the same.

Happy July 4th Independence Day.  Happy Your Own Personal Independence Day. 

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach
Weight Loss Surgery Coach

A good friend of mine pointed out that this year is half over!  Even though I know it is the beginning of July, half-way through the year, he reminded me to pause and reflect.  Wow, where did the time go?  It seems as though the holidays were a couple of years ago.

Thus far this year, I have achieved many of my goals.  I’m very proud and happy of some of my goals.  He also provided an opportunity to reflect on what I’ve accomplished.  He caused me to reflect on what I want to add to my accomplishments before the end of the year.  December 31st will be here before you know it.  Let’s make the rest of the year full of successes and celebrate on December 31!

What have you accomplished the first half of 2008?  What else is ahead for you to achieve?

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach
Weight Loss Surgery Coach

We all know that healthy habits are important and extend your life.   To have a true appreciation for the difference healthy habits make in your life, some statistics are listed below. 

Want some motivation to make changes in your life - check out the approximate number of years that you can add to your life.  By incorporating good habits that reduce risk factors that lead to coronary heart disease and premature death, you can live a longer life.  

* Avoid diabetes = 8 years
* Exercise regularly = 5-1/2 years
* Avoid hypertension = 5 years
* Don’t smoke = 3 years
* Maintain a healthy weight = 2 years

For merely incorporating a few healthy habits, you reap the rewards for many years.  

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach, Weight Loss Surgery Coach
 
(Data from the American Journal of Epidemiology)

WOW Moments are the things that you could or could not do before you lost weight.  Some examples are sitting in an airline seat without the necessity of an extender, wearing an item of clothing that you haven’t worn in years, or crossing your legs.  As you develop healthy habits to replace the old habits that made you heavy, you’ll have many WOW Moments.  Acknowledge and enjoy all of your WOW Moments that happen all the time.  By living now, today, you’ll be aware of all sorts of WOWs that you deserve.

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach
Weight Loss Surgery Coach

Is your glass half full or half empty?  There are so many ways to answer this question.  Have you ever noticed how some people complain even though they have so much (including a place to live and meals to eat)?  Is their cup half full?  No.  Is there cup half empty?  Again, no.  Their cup is completely empty.

Nothing puts a hole in your cup faster than complaining and always seeing the negative in a situation.  Your cup is probably overflowing but you’re thinking about the things you want rather than the things you already have in your life. 

We get focused on how much weight we have to lose that we don’t acknowledge the weight we’ve lost!  Give yourself credit and fill your cup with the accomplishments and gifts in your life right now.  By appreciating what you have done and what you have, you’ll continue to always have a full cup.

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach
Weight Loss Surgery Coach

I am asked so many times about how to keep motivation high.  The pool of inner motivation needs nurturing and replenishing every day.  Just as we brush our teeth and take a shower daily, we need to provide ourselves with a shot of motivation every day too.  Motivation isn’t a bottomless source. 

We nurture the children in our lives, relationships with family and friends, even our gardens by watering.  Include nurturing your internal motivation daily too.  Whether it is reading my website daily (highly recommended - LOL), being involved on an online support group, take a walk in nature, read a motivational book, motivating quotes or listen to CDs, etc., whatever recharges and nurtures your motivation, do it daily.  You deserve nothing less!

What is your daily motivation?

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach
Weight Loss Surgery Coach

Remember when you were in school all of the excuses about forgetting or not completing homework?  What are your excuses to put off losing weight and reaching your weight loss goals?

Choose once and for all to get past all of the former excuses that stopped you from achieving your goal or dream and step into your power by saying: “This is my time, my life, my promise to myself. I will not stop until I achieve my goal!” 

Realizing that being unstoppable is simply a decision that you make every day, every hour, or sometimes every minute gives you the awareness that it is a choice.

And every time you choose to honor your commitment and take a single step, you are honoring yourself and exercising your self-discipline muscle. With each step you take, that muscle will grow stronger and stronger, making it easier to bring about change in your life.

Your time is now. Make a promise to yourself that you are fully committed to reaching your weight loss goal.

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, Certified Life Coach, Weight Loss Surgery Coach