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I want to get inspiration and help to make changes in My life.
Hi Mashela 🙂 I hope that you found some inspiration from the video!!! Sometimes for me all it takes is slowing down and appreciating the beauty around me. There’s a reason people say “stop and smell the roses”. Tuesday’s challenge was to buy fresh flowers. I hope that you’re able to join in on the LMWL challenge to start making positive changes in your life. Let us know if you have any inspirational moments that you want to share!
Oh my. She’s NINE, not none. Silly autocorrect!
Your ideas and concepts are really intriguing to me and I will definitely take a much closer look. My time was limited today but learned a lot watching your first video and watching the client videos. Much of what was said fits me to a tee! It is amazing to me that so many of us struggle with body images and yo yo dieting. I would have never guessed! Thank you, Sara, for being enough intune with “You” and then sharing it with the rest of us.
Welcome Joellyn! The great thing about the video is you can watch it again and again and perhaps more slowly if you felt rushed today. So what fun thing are you going to do? Please let us know how it goes to try to eat without distraction today!
Thank you so much for this video. I have had many of the same struggles as those you mentioned in the video. I’ve been struggling with my weight since childhood, probably age 7. I have never been a diet fan, but have always wanted to lose weight. My biggest issue lately is probably binge eating — just too much when I’m not hungry or overeating at a meal until I’m overt full. I desire to love and feel wonderful and healthy in my body. Today for fun will go for a swimming meditation and then get a 90 minute massage (had that one planned already!). Thanks again and looking forward to the next video.
Leann, I love your ideas for fun! I too suffered from binge eating and practicing eating without distraction really helped me. Try experimenting with it and notice when you want to eat more, are you also looking for distractions so that you can allow yourself that indulgence. I know for me, the minute I want to shove a little extra in that I don’t need I’m also looking to find my phone or turn on the TV so that I can mindlessly do it. And no judgment if you find yourself doing it. It takes a practice. If you give it a try tell us how it went.
Sarah, I could relate to so much of what you said! I’ve struggled with my weight my whole adult life. After losing a significant amount of weight and feeling like I’d conquered that “for good” with dieting and restrictions, I got pregnant and threw my diet rules right out the window. A food free for all. I wound up overweight and ashamed, but also unable to go back to constant vigilant restriction (believe me, I’ve tried!). My child is now none and I’ve been struggling to find a happy medium between constant food vigilance/restriction and a food free for all ever since. And postponing adventures until I’m small enough to look the part. Your message gives me hope for a more joyful way forward. My small step today will be to start a knitting project, something I love but rarely make time for.
You have found the right place, I got pregnant while in the program and it really helped me love my pregnancy, and Its allowed me to find a way to relate to my body post baby and find my way back to the pre-baby jeans. It’s completely possible and I promise Sarah’s tips and advice will allow you to enjoy the journey.
I have spent the last year batteling anxiety and depression, I still have counselling every week and I am looking to take the next step In feeling more positive about myself
Sarah-Jane, good for you in taking the steps to get support in the way you need, Sarah’s tips and programs are definitely the perfect next step in finding you and your love for yourself and your body.
This makes so much sense and for the last couple of months I have ditched my scales and decided to just like me. I am so sick of being a slave to my weight but it is so hard when everyone and everything is so focused around weight. I am in the process of saving for a blender so I can have smoothies to help with my vegetable intake as I am really bad with that mostly because I live alone.
Hi Nola, good for you! Doesn’t that feel so freeing? Good thinking on saving for a blender. Green smoothies are delicious!
Everything you said definitely seemed to ring true for a woman but being a man there is a few minor differences, but basically I think the same principals hold true…. One thing for sure I could write a book on diets that don’t work and cause you to put on more weight when you stop dieting.I’ve come to the conclusion through a very long and painful journey that weight control is an individual thing and is more about when and how you eat rather than restrictive calories and being a gym junkie.
As for fun well today I think I will go and watch a movie I have been trying to see for weeks but always found something else needed doing first that was more important than ME.
Good for you for going to see the movie. Our to-do lists will always be there so we might as well make ourselves a priority on that list. And you are so right, Sarah talks a lot about food and movement being bio-individual, and its about finding the right mix of all of it that supports you, your dreams and your life right now.
When I was younger I weighed, without dieting or really working out too much, about 100 lbs often less. College, pretty same and I used running and yoga as stress relievers so that was great. All was fine until I started having to commute over an hour for a job and not fitting in where I worked, weight started getting to me and it just got worse when I got pregnant and laid off all in the same year. Talk about life changes. Since then I’ve been what I consider overweight but I don’t weigh myself any more so I don’t know. I do know that I’ve tried working out in so many different ways. And I like to sneak food and eat what many would consider unhealthy but I also have found this program and similar programs that are about emotions and solving the emotional issues and understanding!
Fun: Luckily I’ll be getting off of work early today so will get to roam around the library (one of my favorite things) and maybe pick up a journal and wander around without kids!
Food: I started eating mindfully a little bit ago and it’s going pretty well but will really try to focus on my snacks, meals are going ok but snacks I just shove in my face and hope it tides me over and satisfies my need at the time (usually related to boredom)
Hi Kate!
I really relate to you on wanting to sneak food and feeling like you didn’t fit in where you worked. Those things also caused me to gain weight in the past. I acknowledge you for not weighing yourself and beginning to eat mindfully. Those two things can often be the hardest things to start but I find that they help me so much. Hope you have fun at the library and with your kids!
I have started my journey towards healthier living in January. Before then and for many years I have always struggled with my weight and loving myself. January 2015 I decided to start changing my eating because I was always tired, feeling grumpy, and just miserable so cold turkey I started eating clean and drop 14lbs which felt good. But I am considered obese so 14lbs isn’t much compared to what I need to lose to actually be happy. So I too decided that I was no longer going to diet but that I wanted to put things in my body that are good for my body and that’s what I have been doing. I am still working on loving myself totally and that is a process. So I am at a place in my life where I am ready to be happy even if another pound doesn’t budge because I too have gotten addicted to the scale. I have put the scale away and have decided that I am ready to enjoy life and figuring that all out. Now I have to figure out what would be fun?????
Hi Sonja! Good for you on deciding that being happy is more important than a number on the scale!!! Being healthy should be fun NOT something that we have a difficult time with. I hope that you have come up with a few fun things to do…or better yet, make something you already have to do fun (i.e. chores, cooking). I turn on a random music station and dance like no body is watching and have so much fun with my weekly chores! Enjoy the videos and have some fun 🙂
Hi Sarah!
This video has been one of many signs in the past two days that I need to finally stop “fixing” myself and begin to simply love myself for who I am. My body struggles go hand-in-hand with acne issues that began when I was in 5th grade and still have yet to resolve (even though I am 30 now!). I have always felt judged (by myself and others) because of my less-than-perfect skin and it has always been a major self-esteem downer for me. I use food to emotionally cope with this issue, and I also use food to try to “fix” this issue — hoping that if I just give up dairy or sugar or gluten or whatever that it will all just go away! I am so tired of all this though. I feel chained down, and I just want to be free. Part of me is scared though, because I feel like if I stop obsessing over my looks or my food, what will be left? Will I be totally empty? At any rate, I know that enough is enough, and I long to know who I am without this sad definition of myself.
One thing I am going to do for fun — hmm… I am going to go to Nordstrom and pick out ridiculously expensive outfits that I know I can’t afford and try them on! 🙂
HI Kaci! So glad you have made this discovery. This program is about freedom so stay tuned! Hope you took some pictures of yourself with some of the outfits. Who knows maybe you will even find one that you can find a way to afford…especially if it makes you feel like a million bucks right? Looking forward to hearing more of your discoveries so check back and tell us how things are going!
I would consider myself an emotional eater even though I have never been dramatically overweight. i have had an eating disorder when I was a teenager and ever since this pattern of using my body as a kind of battleground is around. I have a long history of working on a better and kindful relationship with my body and sometimes I am better at it and sometimes I am worse. I am so grateful that I have discovered you to remind me that it is actually really important to treat my body lovingly! 🙂 This has been my philosophy for years but it’s hard to really trust it and to live by it when there are so many people around me talking bad about their bodies.
Right now I am in an ok place but I’d love to take better care of her especially when it comes to moving her. Since I have always been so competitive and super disciplined when it comes to physical exercise it is really hard for me (it is a REALLY big struggle for me!) to find a kind and balanced way of moving my body without it leading to a negative mindset towards her.
The fun thing I have done today is to take a long bath, put on a facial mask and watch my very favourite baking show. 🙂
Thank you so much for expressing such a positive philosophy.
( and i hope you can understand my comment well enough; English is not my mother tongue.)
Welcome Lena! The bath and face mask sounds so fun! Good for you! Recognizing why you are eating is one of the steps that Sarah talks about. For me when I eat without any distractions I find I eat less and I am more deliberate about my food choices. So good to have you here with us on this journey! Looking forward to hearing more from you!
7 years ago I lost 20kg, and when I look back I realise that my life had a lot of fun and laughter in it then. The children have got older and are starting to leave home and I’m struggling with my weight again, I have loads of things I should do today, and not all of them are fun, but I’m going to go out to my garden bit of fun, and quite satisfying.
Hi Kathryn, I love spending time in my garden, particularly in the spring. Its so uplifting. Enjoy 🙂
I cannot ever remember being happy with my body or in my own skin if I am honest. Thought I did like being pregnant and realizing my body could grow and nourish and birth my child. THAT was amazing. Today for fun I will read and also have a long overdue phone date with an out of town friend. And I will make a concerted effort to eat without distraction. At the table and with my family.
Nicole, It is good to start by being honest. How wonderful that you felt amazing during your pregnancy! Reading and chatting with a friend are great fun things to do! How did it go with eating without distractions?
I feel that I have been in a fight against my Body for a very long time, It was getting worse after my boyfriend of 5 years left me because I gained weight, which felt like a confirmation of all the ugly things and the inadequacy I felt about myself. I really want to end this struggle, which is I started with the Video. And which is probably why I started crying when watching it,
As for the fun, it is almost bedtime here in Germany, but I will have a nice cup of my favorite Tea before going to bed and reading a good book!
Hi Birte! That sounds like a wonderful fun and incredibly relaxing thing to do. Know that we’re all here supporting you on this jouney.
I can relate to everything you said. I know I need help and I’m hoping your concept will inspire and educate me to make changes.
Welcome Dayna! The changes have already started as you have recognized that you need help and that you can relate to what Sarah has shared in this first video! Good for you! What fun activity did you decide on?
I’ve always had a love and hate relationship with my body. I like the way my body looks for the most part — except for my stomach. I’ve have a belly for as long as I can remember. And its awful. I always look in the mirror and think, “This outfit would look so much better if I didn’t have this belly.” I try working out and switching foods, but I’m still me. I still like food :/
Ashley, I LOVE food! Food is a great and nourishing thing for your body. For me, once I started having more fun, food became less of a punishment and more of an ally.
What did you do for fun today?
Hi Sarah,
We that 1st video pretty much just summed up the last 14 years of my life!
Always dieting, never feeling 100% happy with my life, putting everyone else 1st, always dieting etc etc you know the story.
So my time is now, I have 4 kids & the past 5 years I have been pregnant, working & caring for my family, the time has come for me to add the new dynamic of caring for ME! I have always been over weight and I want loose 50kg.So today I am doing something for me which I enjoy which brings me pleasure. I am doing a personal training session, I al going to buy myself a bunch of flowers & I am having my house cleaned so I can come home & not focus on that but focus some on some me-time.
I want to feel amazing, I deserve to look good. I will be arm-candy for my husband. I love this concept of this program & I can’t wait to live more & weigh less! – Jess (Australia)
Hi Jess, oh yes it is so easy to forget to look after ourselves when we have a family. Sounds like you have a great day planned though. Having your house cleaned is an awesome idea 🙂
I am my own worst critic and have no difficulty being hard on myself. I want to live differently so I can learn to truly love and respect my body, mind, and spirit.
[LMWL Mentor] I know how you feel – I used to be my own worst critic, too. What can you do for fun today to break that pattern?
As I have a cold today and feel rotten, I’m laying in bed drinking dandelion tea and reading a good book instead of struggling at work. Not really “fun” but pleasurable nonetheless and a much needed act of kindness towards myself.
Anna, I know what you mean. We say the nastiest things to ourselves. What can you do for fun today so that you can start living differently?
I I’m tired of not having a job
Hi Lakesha,
I know what that feels like. It can be so frustrating trying to find a job.
Did you do anything purely for fun today?
Thank you Sarah for your encouragement. I have been overweight my whole life. So I have struggled or not with my weight my entire life. I am trying to eat healthier because I am a diabetic and recently lost my brother to complications from diabetes and considered it a wake up call. One thing I will do today for fun today is buy fresh flowers.
Sharon, fresh flowers is perfect!
I love my body…until I see my belly hanging…the baby pouch. Even all the other fat is okay.
I’m going to do a walk and a movie.
Maryanne, did the walk feel great? I find that a really good playlist can make a walk that much more fun.
This video made me realize that when I entered menopause, at the same time, we moved to a small town I hated, I couldn’t find employment in my beloved career, family & friends were hundreds of miles away from us. I think this is the first time I’ve realized how all these circumstances have impacted my weight gain, and why I fall back to emotional eating.
I used to be an avid reader. It’s been a long time since I took pleasure in reading without distractions (TV or food being distractions). For fun today, I will spend some time in my backyard reading.
Hi Shirley. That sounds like a lot of upheaval in your life all at once. I agree that can easily have lead to some emotional eating. Reading for pleasure can be great fun, I love to get lost in a book. Can you think of other fun stuff to do too?
I’m so fat and so unhappy.
I’m sorry you’re unhappy Maria. Can you think of anything that might feel fun for you?
Maria,Sorry you are unhappy. What types of things excite you and put a smile on your face? When I am feeling unhappy I really try to take extra care of myself and fill my days with the most fun things to do. So I look forward to my days! Sometimes its going to the movies or going to a new coffee shop with a good book. What lights you up?
I’ve struggled with my body because I’ve developed arthritis in my knees and hips, which makes hiking, one of my favorite hobbies, difficult. I feel that if I lose weight, it might help with less pain in my joints. BUT, I am not loosing the weight!! I also have fun when I tutor at an elem.school or teach ESL. I love kayaking,cooking,reading creating with my hands and learning new things.
Hi Kris, that sounds so tough and trying to lose weight can be so stressful. What did you do for fun that could help allieveate that stress?
My biggest struggle with my body has been that I feel very big & disproportionate.My husband says I look beautiful. But I still don’t like my body. I know all the right things I’m supposed to do and I start out fairly well in doing them but then I slowly stop or get lazy about it and never see it all the way through. Then I hate myself for it and get discouraged. I’m even a little bit scared of what the outcome of thisprogram will be! Will I see it through? I’m a little sick at this time but listening to your video has me curious and hoping that this might be my chance to make it all right. Today, though I’m under the weather, I will do a series of stretches that make me feel better. I can’t say it’s really FUN but I know that when I do them I feel better.
Fyi, I think you’re a lovely gal and the way you speak about what you’ve been through to get where you are truly makes me feel hopeful because I agree with you. It’s really not all about the size. There is a root cause for how I think of myself and see myself now. I so want to find it and put an end to it!
Hi Dina, I’m sorry you’re feeling unwell. When I’m sick fun for me would be snuggling under a soft blanket, eating chicken soup, watching a favourite movie or calling my Mum. Hope you feel better soon!
Stretches can definitely be fun! I’m always impressed if I can take it a little deeper. Let us know how it goes!
1. As a mom of three, eating without distraction is hard! Hahaha! But we make a point to turn all electronics off.
2. I need to do more fun by doing more for me. A walk, some quite time,a pedicure….. something just for me
Autumn – that’s awesome that you turn the electronics off! Great first step. Can you think of some fun things you could do any time? Even when you’re really busy?
Autumn-Love that electronics are off during meal times. One of the things that I do for fun is read magazines which I buy and save for when I have a “craving” to read them.
I tend to be cynical, especially when it comes to myself. I get excited about embarking on a new journey, but soon the enthusiasm fizzles and I quit. I am so tired of feeling this wY. I have a lot to be grateful for and I want my life to reflect that, not the numbers on the scale or the size of my thighs!!!
Hi Sue, Thanks for being honest. I totally hear what you are saying about getting excited about something and then fizzling out. I have been there. One of the things that has been helpful for me is really taking small steps everyday and making sure I do something FUN everyday. I also try to change it up once I feel like I am in a routine. This week I am taking a new route when I go on walks. What are you doing for fun today?
Yes, yes,yes! It sounds like you’re on the right track. What did you do for fun today?
I normally listen with half an ear to things about weight and weight loss and being happy with myself no matter what size. I stopped to listen to you this morning and I loved what you had to say.
Robyn that is great! Stay tuned there is so much more to come! It will be great to hear how this changes the way you look at yourself. Did you find something fun to do today?
I’ve never loved my body. I’ve always been curvy with a belly, my best friends were skinny and “perfect”. I’ve never been more than 25 pounds over weight but I have always struggled with the ” I will be happier when I lose..” Mindset. I am now in my mid forties with three beautiful , nearly grown children. I am on a journey to love my life and engage in my own life in a way I have never done before. Loving my body is definitely a big part of that. I loved your video and look forward to the next one.
And for fun? I’m going to take a walk with my dog, and dance in my living room 🙂
Jenny, thanks for your comment. Learning to love our bodies as they are today can be challenging at times. One of the things I heave learned is to accept and love of my body as it is today. If I don’t, who else will? Little things like having fun everyday and taking the time to get ready in the morning have helped me with this. Your FUN activity sounds awesome and so does dancing in your living room. Have so much fun.