Ok, this question is to the myriad of you (and I’m one as well) who battle with weight.\u00a0 What do you do when you slip up?\u00a0 When you fall off the “being good” wagon? \u00a0\u00a0When that holiday treat calls to you, and you listen?\u00a0 Do you beat yourself up?\u00a0 Do you say:\u00a0 “Well, the day is shot, the week is shot, I might as well eat another brownie and\/or piece of pizza and I’ll start again Monday!”?\u00a0 Do you say:\u00a0 “Well, I failed, best forget the whole idea of ever getting thin!!”\u00a0 Or do you say:\u00a0 “Well, I did that.\u00a0 It was a choice.\u00a0 I’d rather choose and do something different, starting NOW.”?<\/p>\n
The topic is recovery strategies.\u00a0 You’ve got to shift your perception from diets, which tend to be all or nothing mindsets (you’re ON the diet, or you’re OFF the diet) to a lifestyle change orientation.\u00a0 Success does not equal perfection.\u00a0 Hypnosis helps!\u00a0 \u00a0Even if you make a decision you don’t like, you get to make a new one, and continue from there.\u00a0 This essay is about cutting yourself some slack when you “goof up” (as we all do) and then continue your long term success.\u00a0 I’ve lost 80+ pounds in the past couple years.\u00a0 Is that success?\u00a0 Hell, yes!\u00a0 Was I perfect in my eating choices every moment of every day of that time?\u00a0 Hell, no.<\/p>\n
I’m going to tell the story of my own recent slip-up.\u00a0 And recovery!\u00a0 I call this story:\u00a0 “Big ass” cookie.\u00a0 My teacher, Dr. Richard Bandler, encourages us to make large, rich, 3D, vibrant goal pictures in our minds to motivate us to move in those desired directions.\u00a0 He calls those:\u00a0 “big ass pictures.”\u00a0 Somehow, that phrase has embedded itself into my mind.\u00a0 So, I use it, too, even if it’s slightly vulgar.\u00a0 I’m going to tell the story, now, of the “big ass cookie.”\u00a0 It wasn’t just a picture.\u00a0 It was a reality.<\/p>\n
We all have triggers in us, unconscious or conscious imprinted motivators which propel us into action.\u00a0 I have an “eat sweets” trigger:\u00a0 it’s called “Halloween.”\u00a0 I have another:\u00a0 it’s called “I’m on vacation, and it’s time to indulge myself.”\u00a0 I have another:\u00a0 it’s called “I’ve been working really hard so I deserve it.” \u00a0I have another:\u00a0 it’s called “I’m on sale, buy me.”\u00a0 \u00a0All of these converged a few weeks ago while I was in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Our hotel room had a kitchenette, so we went to the store looking for some food to put in there.\u00a0 It was within a day or two of Halloween, and every aisle end display was full of bags of candy.\u00a0 I ignored those.\u00a0 But then…a bakery table.\u00a0 And on this table were Halloween decorated cupcakes, cakes, and cookies, all on sale!\u00a0 I was riveted by the beautiful dinner-plate sized chocolate chip, decorator-iced cookies with witches and goblins and ghosts sugar-smeared on top, the kind that ideally you cut up into about 20 serving slices. \u00a0Big Ass Cookies!!\u00a0 My triggers converged.\u00a0 The cookie called to me.\u00a0 I bought it.\u00a0 Just the one.\u00a0 Of course, it was bigger than godzilla’s head.<\/p>\n
I bought it, but I didn’t eat it.\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 Then it was time to go home.\u00a0 I should\u00a0 have tossed it.\u00a0 I couldn’t.\u00a0 I put it in my suitcase, at a risk of making my suitcase over the weight limit–because it was already close.\u00a0 I figure this cookie weighed 2 pounds.\u00a0 I crammed it, this giant, hurkin’ cookie into my suitcase.\u00a0 And I brought it home.\u00a0 And I opened it.\u00a0 It had gotten squished.\u00a0 I didn’t care.\u00a0 I ate a piece.\u00a0 A big piece.\u00a0 Probably about two–three servings worth–THEN I tossed it.\u00a0 Nowhere no how is eating sugar-iced chocolate chip cookies on my \u00a0low carb plan.<\/p>\n
But, here’s the key to success.\u00a0 I began again.\u00a0 On my healthy lifestyle eating program.\u00a0 I had gained a few pounds while on vacation in Chicago, that “indulgence” thing kicking in–the last gasp being that cookie.\u00a0 Home again, I didn’t beat myself up, I recovered.\u00a0 Back on track!\u00a0 In the past two weeks I’ve lost 8 pounds.<\/p>\n
Here’s the deal.\u00a0 Hypnosis is FANTASTIC for installing in you, me, all of us these recovery strategies.\u00a0 How to keep going, in spite of momentary temptations or lapses or “failings.”\u00a0 To keep focus on the big ass picture of lean and healthy, the goals that drive us.\u00a0 If you find yourself dieting, and giving up, dieting and giving up, hypnosis will help you reframe a new lifestyle and keep it going.\u00a0 Long term success.\u00a0 Which is not necessarily perfection!\u00a0 I know whereof I speak!<\/p>\n
I am 2 pounds right now off of my all-time low adult weight, and I know I’ll get there next week.\u00a0 And even lower.\u00a0 \u00a0That’s right, during the holidays, while most others are packing on the weight, I’m slenderizing.\u00a0 If you’re ready for long term success with your weight, I’ll help! \u00a0Now is the perfect time. Call me:\u00a0 (425) 564-8608.<\/p>\n
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