Shake the TreeWritten by Jackie Stanley
How would you respond to this question posed by writer Logan Persall Smith?: “What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed plum for want of courage to shake tree?” I believe that, in context of weight management, “plum” is attainment of your weight loss goals and “shaking tree” means confronting truth about why you eat. The only person who can answer question Why do I eat? is you. And only way you are going to discover real answer to that question is to ask and keep asking until you get answers you need. This month, accept challenge to “shake tree.” At end of day, sit down and look back over your food diary. Then ask yourself this question: Why did I make food choices I made today?
| | How to adopt a Loosing AttitudeWritten by Jackie Stanley
We have all heard expression, “Where your heart is?, your treasure will be also.” Allow me to modify this tried and true wisdom, to create an equally valid point: “Where your thoughts are, your hips will be also.” What do I mean by this? Try this experiment: Take a few seconds to write first five words that pop into your head in response to this question: How do I describe myself? For example, you have responded with words like these, “fat,” “old,” or “ugly”. When you’ve finished writing down your five words, go look at yourself in a full-length mirror. I will be willing to bet you a diet coke that what you see in mirror is exactly same as who you think you are. If you think of yourself as fat, unworthy and lazy, that is what you will see. So if you learn to think differently about yourself, you will experience yourself in a new way.
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