According to the National Weight Registry, most Weight Masters weigh themselves at least once a week while reducing their weight. Now, I know our relationship to that cold slab of metal can be fraught with emotions both high and low when we are stuck in “Fat Thinking”:

• Weighing myself depresses me
• I like going by my clothes
• The scale never changes so why do I even bother?

For years you have been weighing yourself as a dieter and now I want to show you how to weigh yourself powerfully - as  a weight master.  When we use the synergy of our mind, the physics of weight release, along with the environmental measuring device - our weight scale - it removes us from the emotional roller coaster and keeps us focused on facts.  The difference is not on the scale, it’s in your head.

JULIE THE SCALE WEIGHT WATCHER

I want to introduce you to Julie, who came to see me wanting to release a pound a week for a year. That was her goal, simple right? Here was her...

Is it March already? I hate to sound cliché, but these first few months have gone so fast, I can hardly believe it’s almost Spring. Life has become so fast paced hasn’t it?

So it makes sense in this “I want it now, expect it now, and get it now” world why it is hard to have patience when it comes to weight release. Diets, cleanses and fad regimes give the allure of the quick fix but we know that those quick fixes never last and leave us feeling worse than before.

So, this month, we are going to focus on developing patience and persistence with the weight release process—so that we can actually make true and lasting changes that are meaningful to not just our health but to our confidence as well.

BE HERE, NOT THER

When I struggled with my weight, I couldn’t take the weight off fast enough. Ever.

The excess weight on my body that I felt when I sat or looked at myself in the mirror always taunted me, “You are a failure, you are a...

Welcome to the last week of the month and our last coaching regarding trust. We have covered trusting ourselves, our environment and also our body. This week I want to address a topic I know many of you want help with-eating out.

When I started working with clients as a hypnotherapist and weight release coach, one of the most interesting things that struck me is how hesitant, dare I say even scared, we are to trust that dining out can become part of their weight release plan. One of the biggest issues people have is asking the waiter for what they need.

Part of that trust issue may be founded on truth, with studies showing that we tend to eat as much as 70% more when we are eating out with other people. So, it makes sense that if we are going to achieve and maintain long term permanent weight release, we should feel comfortable enough to ask the waitperson, for what we need.

TRUST AT RESTAURANTS

Why is it so hard to ask the waiter for what we need? Is it a trust issue? Do we not...

I hope that you are feeling a little more trustworthy as we enter into our 3rd week of the month of TRUST. We have been looking at the ways we can trust ourselves, trust our body and now it’s time to think about trust and our environment.

One of the ways that we let ourselves down in our environment is by bringing in foods that tempt and trigger us--foods that I call gak, which are void of nutrients and high in sugar or refined flour and fats.

We also do ourselves a disservice when we don’t bring enough healthy foods into our environment to have on hand for when we need to reach for something.

This week, I would like to look at some do’s and don’ts for shopping—which is where we often set ourselves up for success or struggle depending on what we put into our carts and bring home. If you can keep an environment that allows you to succeed, it is one more way to move towards trusting yourself and your life of weight mastery.

Sharpening our Shopping Skills

Recently, I had to move an old dresser out to the street for bulky item pick up day. As I pulled it backwards, I lost my footing and fell hard on my butt on the concrete. It was a tough tumble, but amazingly, my butt cushioned the landing and I wasn’t hurt. I was very thankful for my butt. I needed my sturdy bum and it was there for me!

I thought about the many years I spent wishing I could literally cut my butt off of my body because I thought it was so big and bubbly and horrible. In making my own Shift, I had made peace with my butt. I had Shifted my relationship with it to see how strong and powerful it was.

I know that you have heard of “body building”—but have you heard about BODY TRUST BUILDING?  This is the mastery skill building topic that we will focus on this week--a kind of “body appreciation” week.
As we enter our second week of our month of trust, I would like to see if we can begin a small love affair with our amazing body.

BODY...

Welcome to a month of TRUST!

Welcome to February, which is the month of love. What better time to focus on loving ourselves?

In order for any intimate relationship to grow, we need first to establish trust. Yet, when it comes to trusting ourselves and our body to release weight, we often run up against many barriers: distrust, evidence of past failures, little belief in our body’s ability to actually lose weight.

This month’s hypnosis session (see above), weekly coaching sessions and classes will focus on getting you to build trust in yourself and believing in you and your body’s ability to release weight when you communicate with yourself in a more loving and trusting way.

“I DID IT!”
BUILDING TRUST 1-2-3

Crossing something off your list is one of life’s unspoken pleasures. The sense of accomplishment and the reinforcement of one’s feeling of confidence in our ability to do what we say we are going to do is undeniable.

Yet, when we struggle...

We are coming up to the end of our monthly theme of FOCUS. This week I want to keep the focus simple and look at all the things that you are doing that are working for your journey to weight mastery.

FOCUS ON WHAT IS GOING WELL

Have you gotten into the habit of picking on yourself and looking at your behaviors around weight management through the “how did I fail this time?” or “what am I doing wrong now?” glasses?

Staying focused on your weight release shortcomings only builds DISTRUST with yourself ( a topic we will tackle next month!) and sets your deeper mind up to expect more failure and struggle.

This week, let’s instead FOCUS on what you are currently doing that is moving TOWARDS weight release.

Take a sheet of paper and put it on your desk or open a Word document in your computer and keep a running list of; things that you are doing, beliefs that you are forming, habits that you are building currently that you feel good about.

Making this...

How many times do we struggle because we allow ourselves to get into environmental situations without the protection of willpower? This week let's focus on the skill of building the muscle of willpower on a deep inner level to give us real strength in our vulnerable moments.

FOCUS ON INCREASING YOUR DAILY WILLPOWER

“I can’t lose weight because I have no willpower at night.” Carol Samson explained her daily dilemma in careful detail to me as she sat down for a Shift appointment.

Every morning she would wake up and eat a measured amount of cereal and fruit, pack a healthy lunch to take to work and even brought some almonds for when she got hungry in between meals.

At work she was good about avoiding the vending machine, drinking water, and even using the stairs instead of the elevator occasionally. Up until 5 pm, Carol felt like she had it together in the weight loss department.

But then, every night, she told me, “It seems like I go into this...

Welcome to our second week of January and our theme of focus as we zero in on how to create the powerful outcome of weight release. Not just in the short term—but the long term.

CREATE YOUR SLIMMER WORLD IN 7 DAYS. REPEAT.

Long term weight release happens. But it doesn’t JUST happen. Releasing weight is a creation.

That is why over 70% of people who have maintained long term weight release have learned the skill of setting weekly weight release goals and then tracking their food and exercise on a daily basis to keep them FOCUSED on achieving those goals.

TRY + HOPE = OFF

When people tell me they are going to “try” to eat less and “hope” to exercise more, I tell them that their good intentions are not good enough. Trying and hoping are like hitting the “off” switch on your weight release plans.

You must focus on creating an outcome—what we might call a WEIGHT GOAL--every week. Why? It literally turns on your brain to focus...

TURN UP THE VOLUME ON WEIGHT SUCCESS WITH FOCUS

What are you focusing on in your life right now? Have you ever noticed that your life becomes what you chose to focus on? Have you ever noticed that you can Shift your focus, and therefore your reality within a few seconds? This becomes so clear when you see a crying baby or toddler’s caregiver trying to focus them away from crying and shifting their focus to a toy they are shaking. You see the wails turn into a smile in a few seconds. But, even as adults, we can do this.

We can either choose to focus on things that leave us feeling stuck and disempowered or choose to focus on things that allow us to feel like we are moving forward in our lives and are in control of our destinies.

NEGATIVE FOCUS = NEGATIVE OUTCOME

When we struggle with our weight and food, we often are focusing on the negative things. Whatever we did that was “bad”, the food that we “can’t” have, the pounds that we...