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Why Is Losing Weight More About Your Mind Than Your Body?
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Apr 11, 2025
For most people, losing weight and getting in shape isn’t just about eating healthy and exercising. The real challenge happens in the mind. Shifting your mindset, building mental resilience, and changing your perspective are often the toughest parts of making a lasting transformation. No matter how great your diet plan or workout routine, they won’t stick if your mindset isn’t aligned. The key to transforming your body starts with transforming your mind. You can read more about Why Losing Weight and Getting in Shape is More About the Mind than the Body (https://reluctantlowcarblife.com/why-losing-weight-and-getting-in-shape-is-more-about-the-mind-than-the-body/) here. #MindOverBody #WeightLossMindset #HealthyMindHealthyBody #FitnessJourney #ReluctantLowCarbLife #MentalResilience #TransformationStartsWithin #BodyAndMind Support the show (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2029615/support)
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hi this is Anita from Reluctant Low Carb
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Life today we're going to talk a bit
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about why losing weight and getting in
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shape is much more about the mind than
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the body in fact it's really a lot about
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mind games and that might surprise a lot
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of people they think well no it's all
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about the body it's about me getting in
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shape the truth of the matter is it's
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not let's talk first about the power of
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you understanding or knowing why why do
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I want to get in shape why do I want to
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lose weight one of the most important
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exercises that you could do is to embark
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on a weight loss or fitness journey
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sitting down and writing why why do you
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want to lose weight why do you want to
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get in shape what are the deeper reasons
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that drive you this exercise isn't just
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like you know on the surface I want to
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look better i want to look good for my
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cousin's wedding i want to fit into my
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old clothes it's really about digging
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deeper and understanding the motivation
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that keeps you pushing forward when the
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road gets tough because that road is
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going to get tough there's no doubt
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about it it is going to get tough and
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you're going to fall off the wagon
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but you need a reason why to get back
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on here are some reasons you know which
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you could think about i want to lose
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weight so I can play with my kids
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without getting tired i want to get um
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you know lose weight so I feel more
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confident i want to improve my health
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because I don't want to end up with
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chronic illnesses like my parents did i
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want to prove to myself that I can set a
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goal and I can achieve it i want to have
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more energy so I can fully enjoy my life
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you know these are all these are deep
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emotional reasons that can be powerful
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reasons as to why do you want to lose
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weight there's going to be many mental
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barriers to you to losing weight and
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getting in shape if any of you have ever
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had this experience I have it a lot it's
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a morning time you're you know the the
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alarm goes off or it's about ready to go
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off and you know sometimes for me this
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even happens middle of the night i
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didn't really sleep well throughout that
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night i'm thinking like oh you know the
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5:30 alarm comes on really early so I
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turn off my alarm clock and then I end
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up sleeping in i talked myself in the
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middle of the night to doing that and to
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not getting up and doing the exercise I
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needed it that was a mental roadblock
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that came that stopped me from doing
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what I needed to do so there's mental
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barriers that we can have sometimes it's
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our limiting beliefs that you know I
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some people might say I'm just not the
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type to be fit you know just not about
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me just not in my genes just not in my
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genetic so they kind of say you know
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they sort of this self-fulfilling
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prophecy that it's not about them to be
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fit my parents weren't active I'm not
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active it's just the way that I'm built
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it's just the way that I am a fear of
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failure that they're held back by the
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fear of failure you know the idea of
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starting a fitness journey or learning
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something new you know not succeeding
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can sometimes be paralyzing so instead
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of ever embarking on the journey they
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never start in the first place because
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then there's no fear of failure if you
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never start then how do you fail there
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could be emotional eating and healthy
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habits you know for many eating is not
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just about hunger it's about comfort
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it's about stress relief it's about
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emotional coping i know that I do this a
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lot myself that you know you know you're
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emotionally coping you get angry you get
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upset you grab for something that's not
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right so you start having these these
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emotional eating patterns that you know
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are not healthy maybe some of you have
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the sort of all or nothing thinking kind
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of like you know if I'm not perfect at
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it I might as well quit now or one of
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the ones that that I always love well
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I've sort of messed up this week already
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even though it's already only Tuesday i
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might as well just start again next
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Monday and so the rest of the week you
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do nothing because of the fact that
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maybe Monday you didn't do something or
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Tuesday you didn't whatever it is you're
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going to start again on the following
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Monday so sort of this all or nothing
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sort of thinking that you might as well
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not try at all because if you fail once
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in one thing why keep on going another
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one could be lack of patience you know
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it it takes time to lose weight it's not
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an easy thing to do it takes a lot of
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patience and perseverance to be able to
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do it so it could be this entire lack of
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sort of like uh patience that we have so
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what can you do if a lot of this of
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eating is about the mind what is
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something that you can do one is you
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could visualize your future self how do
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I want my future self to look what do I
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want my future to look like you can
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develop this growth mindset where you
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can say instead of seeking seeing
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challenges and roadblocks see them as
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opportunities to grow so many times we
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see challenges as sort of like this is a
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roadblock this is something that's going
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to stop me and I'm just going to stop
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there instead of us seeing this is a
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chance for me to grow this is a chance
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for me to push myself further than I've
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ever been pushed before surround
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yourself with support get yourself
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people that are supportive i've recently
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started a boot camp class and one of the
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classes starts at 5:30 in the morning
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it's hard i mean for me that's hard that
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means I need to be up at you know like
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before 5 or 5:00 need to be there but
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yet I really enjoy the support I get the
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camaraderie I get when I'm there and
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after I've done that for an hour and
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then I'll usually go and go swimming it
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feels good i feel good for the rest of
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the day i feel like wow I really
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accomplished something today i did
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something today you know so surround
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yourself with people that can be
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supportive if you if you do well in
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groups join a group join a class join
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people that will support you maybe set
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some small achievable goals if if you
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know instead of focusing on losing 50
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pounds focus on losing five you know
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instead of committing to intense
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workouts every day start with three
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times a week just focus on something
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small something that you can do practice
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self-compassion you will have setbacks
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like you said there you will go off the
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wagon there are things that are going to
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happen none of us are perfect the key is
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not to let them define you instead of
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beating yourself up treat yourself with
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kindness and refocus on your long-term
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vision say "Here's my long-term vision
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here's where I want to be." And then one
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of the exercises which I did with all of
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this with the roadblocks is I sat down
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and I wrote out here are the things that
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stop me one I didn't sleep well last
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night so I'm too tired to get up and
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exercise today what is something I can
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tell myself that I can do get up get
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your exercise in and then when lunchtime
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comes and you're working take a nap you
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know so there you need to find ways to
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tell yourself to overcome these
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roadblocks that will help you to
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overcome them there's lots of physical
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benefits as we know of all losing weight
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and getting in better shape you know
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you'll have increased energy better
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mobility improved health um enhanced
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mood greater confidence you're going to
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feel better about yourself we all know
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and understand these things but but what
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we need to really understand is this
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connection between our mind and our body
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and our mind telling us things that we
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need to find the ways to overcome those
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roadblocks that stop us from doing them
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so that's why my challenge for you today
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is a couple things one write down your
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why why do you want to improve your
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health lose weight what are your wise
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and make sure you spend time think about
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these things think about really what is
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your why what is the reason why and you
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know don't have it be other people well
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because my husband wants me to lose
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weight or my kids say I need to lose
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weight no it needs to be about you what
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do you want why do you want to do it and
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then after you've done that then start
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writing a list of what are the things
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that stop you from doing it what are
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your roadblocks what are the things that
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will maybe get in your way and then once
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you've written those down look at them
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all and say "What is it that I can tell
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myself to help help me overcome or go
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around these roadblocks or get me out of
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these roadblocks what is it that I can
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do?" For example a roadblock might be
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"Oh I didn't sleep well last night so
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I'm going to turn off the alarm and I'm
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going to sleep in." What is something I
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can say to myself instead of it I will
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get up and I will still exercise and if
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I'm tired I will get to bed earlier in
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the evening or I will be sure to take a
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nap at lunchtime that's a way that you
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can overcome some of those roadblocks or
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your obstacles we've written a blog on
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this if you'd like to have some ideas on
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this but why losing weight and getting
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in shape is more about the mind than the
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body and we'll put a description in our
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blog post below as to the reason why but
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we've hope that you've enjoyed this and
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that this will give you something to
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think about to think about the wise why
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do you want to lose weight why do you
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want to get in shape what are your
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roadblocks and how can you overcome them
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and then that way when those roadblocks
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come you can be better prepared to learn
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to overcome them thank you so much for
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