Remember that little girl from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that yelled I Want It Now!
I've always been a bit like that with, well, with just about everything. Patience is one thing I still need to work on. I was thinking about the "I want it now" thoughts we have with weight loss.
After a lifetime of dieting, fasting, pills, and other unhealthy things I thought would help me lose weight, I still went in to each diet thinking how quick can I lose this weight? I wanted it off Now!
I just knew life would get so much better after I lost the weight. I thought the weight was stopping me from being happy. The truth is I was stopping myself from being happy.
I started feeling happier and more content with my life when I decided to choose happiness. When I wake up each morning I think to myself I am going to be in a good mood today and happy. In the past when I woke up I would get up and wait for something to happen and let that decide my mood.
You can have happiness right now if you decide to choose that emotion for the day.
You can choose to be happy on the journey to better health and realize you didn't gain all of the weight overnight and you won't lose it overnight. You can yell, I want it now, but it won't work with weight loss.
If you start today in hopes of quick weight loss, on a diet with rules that are making you miserable because you know it's going to be so hard for you to wake up each morning and drink a gross tasting shake how long do you think you will stick to it? Not long! You will feel punished and deprived and so would I. Those diets would send me binging for days or longer.
Then the hunt would begin for the next diet that would promise me I could have quick weight loss and my life would perfect by purchasing their diet for a small price of $29.99 I could lose weight fast, look like I was 20 (even though I'm 48) and my life would be perfect.
I want to tell you what you really can have right now.
Right now you can choose to be happy and choose to focus on your health. It's your choice. You can choose to start a new journey today. One that will treat you with love, compassion and forgiveness and give you better health from the inside out. You won't lose the weight overnight. There will be bumps in the road, but you will learn from them and they will only make you stronger. All you have to do is take that first step and add in something positive today.
That's all you have to do to get started. Have a healthy breakfast today and you have succeeded or go for a walk or tell yourself you are beautiful. It doesn't matter what you do, just do 1 positive thing today.
Isn't it sad that it feels wrong if we aren't taking things from ourselves and punishing ourselves. We deserve so much more than that!
Please believe in yourself and believe you deserve to be healthy and happy because you do.
I Believe in you and I Believe you can do this! You just need to believe it too!
Choose to have a great today!
Jaki Sinclair blogs at Slim Down U ( http://www.slimdownu.com ) has lost 125 pounds and is committed to encouraging people to make healthy habits one step at a time for weight loss, better health and a happier life.
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