Ep 193: Using Empowering Thoughts to Keep Your Progress During the Holiday Season

People who are trying to lose weight use the holidays as an excuse to go back to their unhealthy routines. After all, it’s just for a day! But this way of thinking can hurt the progress you’ve made on your journey to weight loss and mindfulness. Remember: empowering thoughts, eating right, and living healthy are things you commit to regardless of holidays, vacations, or any special occasions in your life.

In today’s episode, I will discuss the empowering thoughts to use during holidays and the thoughts that impede your progress. I will do this by sharing a story about my client, who recovered her power by asking herself the right questions and setting her mind to success.

If you want to be mindful of your practices once the holiday season approaches, then this episode is for you.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover the thoughts that best serve you in your weight loss journey and the harmful thoughts that prevent you from reaching your goal.
2. Learn how to use empowering thoughts to stay mindful even when the holiday season starts.
3. I will share how my client lost weight and connected to her body by feeling her negative emotions instead of using food to cope with them.

Episode Highlights

My Client’s Story

• My client was successful in many areas of her life, but she felt powerless with her weight.
• After working with me for five months, she lost a lot of weight and reconnected to her body.
• She realized that the powerful mind helping her in the last five months is the same mind helping her in many areas of her life.
• The tools to reconnect with your body have always been available to you; all you have to do is tweak them for your well-being.
• The holiday season is a great time to learn your mind and body connection.

Significant Changes in Her Life

• My client practices mindfulness by using empowering thoughts and questions like, “Will eating this make me feel better or worse?”
• Listen to the full episode to know the thoughts that led her to overeat.
• She now recognizes the food that works best for her and its impact on her body.
• One of the most significant changes that happened to her is allowing herself to experience negative emotions. She now understands that she shouldn’t eat her feelings but feel them instead.
• By noticing your emotions, you can come out on the other end and realize that everything is still okay. You can also examine what you’re thinking that’s making you feel these negative thoughts.

Why the Holidays Shouldn’t Affect Your Progress

• Holidays can be challenging for people who are trying to lose weight and change their lifestyle.
• No matter where you are in your journey, holiday seasons shouldn’t modify your eating habits and thought process.
• If you’re practicing mindfulness and working on increasing your MQ, then the holidays are an excellent time for you to test your progress.
• Listen to the full episode to know the thoughts that will best serve you this holiday season.

5 Powerful Quotes

“And she’s realized over these coaching sessions, five or six months, is that the same part of her mind that has helped her in so many areas of her life is the exact same part of her mind that has helped her in the last five months reconnect to her body.”

“That connection to your body is really always available to you. And I think that the holiday season is never a better time than to really learn that connection.”

“But you know what I think the most important thing that happened to her over these last six months was that noticing her emotions, and noticing negative emotions, and realizing that she could feel any emotion. And that she didn’t have to eat it, that she could feel it instead— that was probably the biggest thing for her.”

“No matter where you are in your journey of getting to know your body better – either to lose weight or just to be more healthy, fit, and happy – the holiday season is a wonderful time to learn true connection to your body.”

“Every thought that runs around up there is a choice that you can choose or not.”

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To transforming your life for good,

Dr. Deb