This is our last week exploring our path of Loving Ourselves Down the Scale and I would like to invite you to do something radical: Forgive yourself for struggling with weight and, if you can, forgive the struggle.

Now, I know that you might be thinking: why would I forgive myself? After all, if I were stronger, had more will power, and wasn’t so addictive and weak, I wouldn’t be having this issue with weight and struggling. I don’t need to be forgiving of myself; I need to be tougher on myself. If I forgive myself, then things will get worse and all hell will break loose.

Actually, the opposite is true. Let’s take a minute to explore why, in order to truly move forward and release weight long term and, more importantly, heal this part of your life, you must forgive yourself.

WHY SHOULD I FORGIVE ME?

Self Anger Keeps You Stuck In The Past. There is nothing like regret over gaining weight or blaming ourselves for being stupid or weak to keep us stuck in...

This week of 'Loving Ourselves Down the Scale' month, I want to discuss our environments and how they either love us into weight mastery or leave us in the weight struggle.

Eight times out of ten, when a client who has been experiencing easy weight release begins to struggle the roadblock is environment related:

• Someone brought a tempting food into the client's environment (and that someone might be them.)
• The client forgot to restock healthy foods or plan their meals ahead.
• The friend who was initially supportive is now becoming a saboteur, asking the client to join them at their old favorite and fattening restaurant.

It's easy to take our environment for granted and not realize the power they wield with regards to our weight release success or failure.

LOVE YOU OR LEAVE YOU

I have been thinking about my own weight mastery and how over the years, I evolved a loving attitude towards myself. As part of this, I want all the places that I spend my time in to provide me with a...

Welcome to August! It is the month of embracing the final carefree days of summer, vacations for many.  As we head into the month, I would like to invite you to think about embracing yourself as we explore this month’s theme of loving yourself down the scale. So often when we struggle with weight, our attempts to actually release weight are focused on our negative beliefs about ourselves:

• I’m fat.
• I’m out of control.
• I‘m lazy.
• My stomach is ugly.
• I can’t look like this, I have to lose weight!

All of the negativity causes stress and inner tension, and guess what happens when we are stressed and tense? We eat! What if, instead of struggling with ourselves and our weight, we focused on actually loving ourselves down the scale?

When we appreciate ourselves and come from a loving place, with a desire to give ourselves the best health and best life we can, it allows our mind to feel relaxed and inspired. It also changes the tone of our weight release...