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, 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 with our weight, we seem to set very high tasks for ...

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 list will get you conscious to ...

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 strange trance as I would enter my h...

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 on what you are going to create.

A one pound release: ...

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 didn’t lose. Sometimes we don’t even focus at all—and...

These last week/s of the holidays coming up to the New Year can be full of both joy as well as stress. Since this month’s theme is PLEASURE, I would like to give you a quick and simple way to change your mind state from stressed to pleasurable in a very short time.

Did you know that when you are in a state of gratitude and appreciation your brain emits the feel good hormone dopamine? That’s right, when you appreciate something, your mind immediately calms down and gets a warm and fuzzy pleasurable feeling, dare I call it a ‘blissed out’ feeling? Better than a glass of wine and less calories.

So for the remaining days of this month/year, I would like to focus you on creating a lot of appreciation in your life. Here are some simple do-able tips that will help you stay bathed in pleasurable emotions even when things get stressed or dysfunctional over the holidays.

1. APPRECIATE YOURSELF. Take a few moments each day and focus positively on your self.  Find at least 5 new things you can a...

We are deep into the holiday season now and it’s a time that we easily get stressed out, overstimulated and then eat to calm down. As masters of weight, we are learning to move beyond this by setting ourselves and our environment up for success. That is what we will focus on this week, staying out of overwhelm and using our environment to help us do so.

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PLEASURE BREAKS

Our mind gets easily stimulated, then overstimulated and then overwhelmed. Research shows that overstimulation leads us to get more emotional, eat more, drink more, smoke more and more!

Research also shows that if you take a 5 minute break every couple of hours and breathe and change up what you are doing, you can calm your mind down and give it a moment to REBOOT itself, just like a computer needs rebooting.

This week, I invite you to challenge yourself to move past the voice that says “I have no time to take a break” and give yourself some holiday season pleasure breaks.  By stopping, taki...

I hope that you are enjoying the holiday season so far. I am amazed at how quickly it arrived! This week, as we head into the more social time of this year, I would like us to look at how we can find a way to continue to focus on weight release and also indulge in some our favorite holiday foods.

Today, I want to focus specifically on how we work powerfully with our body to enjoy the holidays and some of our favorite treats and still be on track for weight release.

STEPS TO CREATE A FOUNDATION FOR PLEASURE

How many times have you eagerly anticipated a favorite holiday treat, only to get carried away and eat too much of that holiday treat and let what started as a pleasurable experience quickly dissolve into a painful one?

I certainly have felt that pain of overindulging hundreds of times over the years as I struggled with my weight. I remember once eating a whole batch of my favorite Christmas cookies and lying to my mother when she was looking for them, saying they had fallen o...

Welcome to December and our theme of True Pleasure! I am looking forward to exploring how we can use pleasure to impact our weight and our lives in positive ways.

EACH PLEASURABLE WEEK

At the beginning of each week this month, as you plan and prepare for your successful weight release, I am going to give you tools that I think will allow you to experience more pleasure on your journey of weight mastery. This week we will focus on your mind and pleasure.

Please listen to the micro coaching session (download link at top of this email) where I also walk you through getting refocused on your weight release for this coming week.

GET OUT YOUR PLEASURE SCALE

Curiosity killed my fat. It’s true. In order for me to have maintained a weight release of forty pounds for twenty years, I really had to cultivate a serious curiosity about myself and what truly gave me pleasure other than food. There was a time, my monthly mastery friends, that I believed the only thing that gave me pleasure ...

I hope that you are enjoying connecting this month as much as I am. It’s amazing to see what you notice about your thoughts, your body and your life when you really tune in.

One thing I have noticed over the years of helping people master their weight is how easy it is to go from eating one serving of something and then, because the jar or the box or bowl of the thing I am eating is still there, I continue to graze on that thing. The tricky thing is that my mind has registered only one serving, but my body registered, recorded, and stored (as extra calories), 3 servings.

Often, it is those extra bites that create the difference between a weight release week and a weight maintain or gain week.

I have been maintaining for years, but still catch myself with the jar of peanut butter eating an extra spoonful or two… That is when I know the peanut butter is in charge of me and not the other way around.

What do I do?
I get back in charge.
How?

I have learned a simple tool that allows me a...