I’m working with one of my beloved clients who can’t seem to be consistent with healthy eating.
She says it’s what she wants more than anything.
So she starts for a few days or weeks and then “falls off the wagon.”
She’s in menopause and is very frustrated because she isn’t able to lose the weight.
She says she wants to feel good and be healthy, but what we discovered in our coaching session is that she really wants to be able to lose weight quickly, OR NOT AT ALL.
Her inability to maintain a healthy diet is actually her rebellion against her body for not reacting the way it used to.
Her body’s metabolism is slowing down: this is a fact. It isn’t going to drop the weight as easily as before.
Now that she understands her true thoughts, we can begin to change her thought model to one that is more positive. Here is what her current model looks like:
- She gets on the scale to weigh herself and it shows her a number.
- She thinks, “My weight loss is too slow.”
- When she thinks this thought that makes her feel FRUSTRATED!
- When she feels frustrated she eats foods that don’t serve her health.
And the result is she loses weight even slower, or not at all.
My question to her and to you, my dear reader, is this:
Why is losing weight so hard for her?
The fact that she is in menopause is unchangeable. Sorry, ladies, there is just no way to change this. BUT what will happen over time if she chooses to think whatever weight loss she has accomplished is just the way it should be (and it is), and she feels confident, and she continues to eat healthy foods when she’s hungry and stop and when she’s full? My guess is she will lose all the weight she needs to lose. But only if there’s no deadline.
Do you know what you’re thinking about your menopausal body? Menopause is a fact of life, BUT what you think about it may be helping or hindering.
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Dr. Deb
