3 ways to overcome diet mentality for freedom

 

In this day and age, it can be very easy to fall into the trap of dieting.  Even when you think you aren’t on a diet, you might find that you deep down truly are.  It’s a challenge to find your balance sometimes and it can be a painful journey if you are unable to find your groove with your eating patterns.  So many eating plans disguise themselves and are really diets and it’s any wonder so many women are struggling in a world that is not set up often for success when it comes to balance.  Diets can put you into a spiral and they can cause you to lose and gain weight on a yo yo while you try to do the right thing for yourself, you may find yourself at a loss.  These insights will assist you to overcome the diet mentality and help you find your groove with your eating and mental health:

1. Seek professional guidance.

   The first thing I want to encourage you to do is find a non-diet professional who can help you to get off the cycle, restore your metabolism and your mental and physical balance. The right professional, can help you to find a way through what you may be facing and assist you with getting in the health over looks game.  When you seek professional guidance, you set yourself up for success and have support that you need to be able to learn to love your body and live your life the way you are meant to.

2. Try different approaches and find what works for you.

   Any professional will have you try different things until you find what works for you and has lasting results. Sustainability is important and know that it may take a few tries at different things for you to be able to find your groove and what makes you feel healthy, be healthy and have a healthy mind.  One size never fits all which is what can make the non-diet approach so difficult to master but you can, and you will find a way of life the suits you.  Don’t fall for a quick fix approach that promises you the world but comes at a metabolic and mental cost.

3. Give up the quick fix mentality.

   I know you want weight loss now, right? But that is not how health works.  It’ a long term game and you are playing it so it’s best to think about what you can sustain for the rest of your life, not what brings you the quickest results in the shortest amount of time.  Being thin isn’t everything although sometimes it might feel like that, but health is very important so make sure you embrace your body the way it is and love it into the way you want it to be if you even want to make changes.  Giving up the quick fix mentality can change your life because your life becomes about the long game in all ways so your patience is something that will change your life.

3 ways to overcome diet mentality for freedom is republished from Anna Maria Lang's fitness blog

3 keys to understanding why looks aren’t everything

There is an epidemic on this planet that has women think that looks are everything.  You know that feeling that your dream man will arrive once you lose the weight, you will have your dream life when you look a certain way, and your life will all fall into place if you could just morph yourself into looking like your favourite Hollywood star?  There is much more to life than the way you look and by saying this, I’m not saying to let yourself go, it’s quite the opposite actually.  I’m saying to look after yourself, morph into the best version of yourself and model success from others but don’t try to be like anyone but you.  Too many women place their worth on their looks when your worth is derived from much more than that.  These insights are designed to assist you to overcome the ‘looks are everything’ epidemic and begin to see you are beautiful no matter what you look like:

1. Your worth hinges on your heart and soul.

   I happen to know that many women struggle because they think that their body and looks is the thing that other people, particularly men or a man want. We are bombarded with images in the media and other realms of what I call the ‘ideal woman’ that is projected that when you look like her, all your dreams will come true.  I am here to tell you that all of your dreams can come true now.  You might need to do some work to get there and when you look to your heart and soul, you get to see that you are winning in this mission by seeing your worth hinges on following your dreams and looking stunning might be part of it but it’s not the be all and end all of your overall goals.

2. Your body and looks are not your business card.

   There is a myth that the supposed good-looking thin woman will get more opportunities in life and particularly their career. Your body may speak volumes of your past behaviours, non-behaviours or habits but it isn’t and shouldn’t be the thing that depicts whether you are chosen for opportunities or whether you decide to go for things in life.  Many industries portray beauty as being part and parcel with success, but true success comes from within and your body and looks are not your business card, your intellect, drive, skills and other aspects of who you truly are, are the key to your success.

3. You deserve the love of self.

   In executing this mission, you get to see that looks aren’t everything. You must know that you are stunning regardless of what you think you look like now and loving your body and self comes with a great amount of joy and peace that may just be the answer to you losing some weight and shaping up in a way that is lasting.  Your looks and body are not everything and your dreams do not hinge on them, what hinges on them is your decisions, commitments and actions toward what you are meant for in this life and that is to have it all in the way that you and only you deem is acceptable.

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