Ok, what is your name?

 

Now is that name all that you are or are you more than just that?

 

Because even the writing on your birth certificate is just a label of who you are and isn't the real you.

 

If I ask you what you really are, what the real you is, then I have yet to know anyone who can answer that. They usually put their hand on their chest and they have a feeling but they can't actually say who they truly are.

 

But yet we all choose to accept labels from others and also label ourselves.

 

I work with loads of dieters who label themselves useless, crap, worst dieter ever, fat, lumpy, chunky, gross etc etc but they are choosing to accept that label and in fact, create it.

 

But they realise that they are so much more than just FAT and that FAT is actually just a perception of who they are. Technically, you are made up of all sorts of things including WATER but do you go around telling people how WATERY you are!?

 

'Hi my name is Mike and I am well watery..."

 

Therefore give yourself a break! Stop labelling and beating yourself up for being overweight!

 

Most dieters have spent their entire dieting career labelling themselves negatively and not getting the results they want, so, do something different and stop doing that!

 

If you keep telling people how useless at dieting you are then guess what will happen? The same thing that has happened on every other diet you have done when you haven't got the results you wanted.

 

Now it took me a while after getting to goal weight to lose my FAT label, I still felt it applied to me! When people called me slim I used to want to reject it and justify that I could still lose a few pounds and that I had loads of loose skin!

 

But in hindsight I should have accepted the slim label as I was slim! I was slim but yet I somehow wanted to hang on to a label that was no longer me because it allowed me to sit in my comfort zone.

 

Therefore, this week's advice is to stop labelling yourself! Unless of course you are labelling yourself lovely, great, nice or brilliant.

 

If you don't believe me then spend this week not labelling yourself negatively and see what a massive difference it makes to the way you FEEL...because remember, we try to be logic based people who try and diet based on facts, figures and regimes but the reality is we are emotional animals and if we choose to believe we are useless at something or bad at something then we will feel the emotions that it brings, therefore as the quote of the week says..... BE NICE TO YOURSELF!

 

Talk Soon

 

Mike ;-)