Today, I'm sharing a little of my personal journey and giving you some biblical principles to guide you towards a life of true health and freedom from failed diets. I share my challenges with weight loss, full of setbacks and obstacles, and how I overcame them by committing to being someone who was healthy and doing the things a healthy person does as a lifestyle.

We're also chatting about the power of thoughts and beliefs and how they can shape and influence our actions. I encourage you to take a good hard look at what you believe about weight loss and body image in order to make real, long-term progress.

To make changes from the inside out, I provide practical steps, including self-awareness, shifting towards a more positive and empowering mindset, and focusing on changing beliefs rather than just actions.

💖 Journal Prompts: 💖

1) What are you thinking about? What thoughts do you have regarding dieting and weight loss? "As a man/or woman thinks, so is he"

• “I can’t lose weight”
• “I can’t stick to a diet”
• “Dieting is too hard”
• “If this diet doesn’t work in X amount of time, I quit.”

Let’s dig deeper. What thoughts do you have about yourself?

• “I’m such a failure”
• “I never follow through”
• “I have no willpower”
• “I have to lose weight to be valued, seen, sexy, successful, etc.”

When you’ve dieted in the past, what motivated you to start?

• Being fed up with yourself
• Tired of being overweight
• Wanting to like what you see in the mirror (this needs to start NOW, at your current size)
• Being more active
• Wearing the clothes in your closet

What if you found new motivation and had different thoughts? (Not just surface-level stuff)

• Wanting to honor your body as a temple
• Instead of thinking “I can’t have that, I’m on a diet,” start thinking “I can have what I want because everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.”
• Stop looking at weight loss as an end goal. It’s only a by-product of making healthy lifestyle changes and forming new neural pathways.
• Getting healthy doesn’t just mean losing weight.
• It’s about identity shifts. Go from “I can’t eat that” to “I don’t eat that.”

2) Beliefs / Agreements

• What you think about forms your belief system
• What do you believe about yourself?
• What agreements have you made about health and dieting?
• Agreements are powerful- it’s a contract essentially. A binding agreement is just that…binding.
• Agreements are formed when you have a thought or someone has spoken something over you and you believe it. (power of words)
• Agreeing with it gives it power over you because your actions will follow suit
• EX: “Why do I always do this?”
• Stop and ask, “What agreements have I made in this area”
• Identify them
• “I always, I never” statements
• Those broken record type thoughts

3) Action: how you can start to take the right actions today to start becoming someone who isn’t just dieting anymore, but someone who just makes healthy choices?

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