Juliebw’s BodyBlog

I like to try out the new fitness equipment and gadgets that come out on a monthly basis for a couple of reasons. One, I like to see what all the hype is about and two because I know sooner or later one of my clients is going to ask me about it.

I try hard to stay on top of things, although a few do slip through my fingers and I never get to try them out. However, I did get to try out a new product that I was reading a lot about. A former Biggest Loser contestant advertised it has bringing him success. I even read about it on a couple of my boards.

What is it, you ask? It is the Hypnosis CD for weight loss. Let me be honest, I was very skeptical at first, as I am with many weight loss gadgets. I thought how in the world a simple CD would ever hypnotize someone into losing weight. I am not one able to quiet my mind or body for longer than a couple of minutes, so I felt for sure I was not the right candidate for this.

However, I tried it anyway. I put in the CD, found a quiet spot in my house (at least as quiet as it can get), I turned my phone on silent, and I laid down to relax and listen to the woman on the CD. I listened to this CD two separate times just to see what would happen.

Now let me tell you, I could be mistaken and this could really work for someone, after all it is just suggestions. But why do we need this special CD? We know what to do to lose weight; we know that it takes leaving the junk on the table and grabbing the clean foods. We know that it takes getting off the sofa and time outdoors to lose weight. So why would you spend $100.00 to have a woman on a couple of cds tell you the same thing but this time your going to believe it!

It doesn’t cost any money to lose weight. Sometimes, yes we need to pay someone like a trainer or a nutritionist to help educate us and motivate us, but we don’t need to drop $100.00 in the bucket on a silly gadget like this.

All this is teaching us is to listen to this lady’s voice when it comes time to make better food choices. Now, if I am not mistaken, we were already created with this same voice in our heads, “our inner voice,” which tells us when to run from danger or fight for our lives. If this inner voice is that powerful, than don’t you think it is something we can trust to tell us what we should and shouldn’t be putting into our bodies.

We also know the only way to lose weight is too move more. Do we really need to have someone put us into a calm state to tell us that? We know what to do; sometimes we just don’t want to do it. I know I don’t want to get up at 5:00 am every morning to push myself to the limit doing some sweaty bout of cardio. But you know what, I do want to be healthy, have energy, live to be fit and young at 80, and I want to look good in a bathing suit. Those goals are very important to me and give me enough motivation to stop hitting that snooze button.

 We are all blessed with an inner voice. This voice steers us from danger and keeps us on the right path. Maybe we should listen to it more and not some soft spoken voice on a tape. Maybe the problem is, we just don’t have enough important goals

Trust yourself, not someone else. Set your own goals, something that you have always wanted to do, but were too scared to reach for it. Just do it today! Why wait any longer to live the life that you always dreamed of having. Go on, lace up those sneakers and go for a walk. When you get back, replenish your body with a clean well balanced meal, and a big glass of water. You’ll feel much better and it didn’t cost you a dime.

Love yourself today,

Julie

Who motivates  you in this life? Think hard about that question. The correct answer should be you. You are the only one that can give the power to someone else to make you feel bad. You are your own worst enemy and your own best friend. If you think about it. You are in your own head 24 hrs a day, 7 days a wk, and 365 days a year.
 If your talking junk to yourself then it is only normal for you to finally believe it. How many times can you tell someone they are going to fail before they do?  Do something different today. Be nice to yourself.  Only say positive things and when those negative self defeating thoughts come back into your head. Throw back two positive thoughts for every one negative. Try to take every negative moment that happens over the next five days and turn it into a positive. What do you have to lose? Other than your negativity?
 Only when  you believe you can achieve something Will you. Have you ever heard a successful person say, ” Wow I never knew I could accomplish this, I mean I tried telling myself everyday that I would fail but here I am a success anyway.” Yeah if only it did work like that there would be far more success stories in this world. The only difference between that successful role model and you is that they believe in themselves. So what if no one else believes you can. Your the only one that has to believe it.
My motto in life is no regrets. I don’t ever want someone to say yeah, that Julie she could have been great if only she believed. No regrets remember!! No more pity parties, no more it’s not fair or it’s too hard , no more negativity or self sabotaging.  You pick your destiny. You live with your choices.
 Live your life like someone was looking up to you. If you have children you are being watched all the time. What are you doing or saying to yourself or about yourself in front of them?
 
Love Yourself Today