Coach To Lose

During the recent event with the Taste of Home show I must have asked the question over 500 times.  Almost every time I got a laugh and a response that went something like “Yes of course I want to lose some weight.”   There were of course some loving partners that said “Yes my husband really needs to lose some weight.”  What I normally follow up on after a few pleasant introductions to some very nice people was this:  “Was that a want to or a need to?”

Let me explain why I ask.  You see for over 20 years I had a want to lose weight and get healthy.  That want got me 20 years of up and down yo-yo weight loss.  Something I refuse to set some one up for.  See during my hypnosis training my instructors taught me that you have to want to change and if you feel the need to change your therapy will be much more effective.  For hypnosis it would be much easier to work with the suggestions at a deeper level within the subconscious.

However if someone wants you to lose weight or to quit smoking and you don’t, no amount of behavior change techniques will fix the problem.  Sure I can help you loose the weight but you will never keep it off, because the behavior change was not yours in the first place.  You need that want and need together to be ready for the journey.  It will be a journey of change at a deep level because superficial won’t produce long lasting change.  And before you ask I don’t use hypnosis in my practice unless it is a tool that is needed in that journey.

So ask yourself when you look in the mirror (I always suggest people get naked spiritually and physically) and see what you see.  Do you like what you see?  I know I didn’t.  At 297 pounds I made a promise to myself I would not go over 300.  Funny now when I look back at it really, why didn’t I start with a promise to not go over 200? I swore at my doctor (behind his back) for suggesting I would be better off adding four more medications.  I knew when the chest pains started coming multiple times daily that I “needed” to do something.  I was ready.

Truth be known I knew that I needed to do something many years before all of that.  I just didn’t “want” to do the work.  After all I wasn’t that big.  Lol, yeah right.  At a 43 BMI I was a morbidly obese and qualified for gastric bypass without any of the multitude of other medical conditions to go with it.  So the want and the need had to come together all at once.  Opportunity and preparedness met.

What is it going to take for you to go for optimal health?  Is it that you can’t keep up with your kids or grandkids and play?  Is it wondering if you will see them get married and have children of their own?  Is it that climb up one flight of stairs that gets you breathing so hard you think your chest is going to burst?  Or will it be the way the doctor looks at you when he says one more time that you need to eat less and exercise more?  Is it now or never?

I know this for a fact there is life after being fat.  And all those people that loved you anyway will still love you thinner.  Living for health is much better then dying to eat.  Trust me on this one.  Come lets take that walk together.  I am blessed every day now with changing lives and being reminded that the journey was worth the walk.  Come along aside and walk with us.  There is plenty of help along the way and it will be there when you stumble and want to get back up again.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!  Be blessed in whatever walk you choose today!