Weight Loss Support

Hi Can Do Craig and I would like to share an image with you that has really inspired us this week. Apart from it being extremely cute it helped us consider our Mind Body Weight Loss Purpose.

If you can imagine yourself on one side of your weight loss journey wanting to get to the other side where you have become your ideal weight. You have to cross that gap but do not yet know how to do so. Well we at Mind Body Weight Loss want to be that bridge which can support you along you weight loss journey. As you can see from the picture above you will still have to do some work to get the other side but we at Mind Body Weight Loss are here to make it easier for you in as many ways as we possibly can.

Some on the ways we help you lose weight are our helpful blog posts with advice, tips and suggestions, free ebooks, eNewsletters, and recommending fantastic products which we feel could help you lose weight.

Best wishes
Can Do Craig and Mindful Mark
Your Mind Body Weight Loss Support Team

Non Judgement

Please be kind to yourself during your weight loss journey.

I found a really interesting quote today which helped me realise why this is important:

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

How I interpret this is to be kind to yourself through out your weight loss journey as this ensures that a happy path towards your destination is walked rather than one of upset.

The scales of justice is quite an apt image for weight loss because we need a balanced mind and approach to our weight loss.

Louise L Hay states "To spend our time berating ourselves for being too heavy, to feel guilty about every bite of food we eat, to do all the numbers we do on ourselves when we gain weight, is just a waste of time."

If we come from point of loving and accepting exactly as we are then we do not need to blame or judge our self. 

Kind regards

Mindful Mark

Heal Your Fat With Your Thoughts

We have mentioned Louise L, Hay a few times before on this blog because she is an amazing person and has a vast amount of experience in helping people not only love themselves but to heal their body and life too. Recently I was reading 'Heal Your Body' to help heal a sore throat (Yes it did help and I happy to say now better.) I came across a really interesting section in the book which shared Louise L. Hays thoughts on why we may be fat on certain parts of our body. She then lists the 'Probable Causes' and suggests a new 'Thought Pattern' to overcome the probable causes. My suggestion to you is NOT to buy the 'Heal Your Body' book, but to instead purchase the 'You Can Heal Your Life' book because it includes the Heal Your Body book as its final chapter and the rest of the book is amazing at helping you learn to love yourself and life in general.

So back to what Louise L. Hays suggest the 'Probable Causes' and 'New Thought Patterns' are to help overcome Weight Loss. The suggestion is that you repeat to yourself over and over the new thought pattern and it will help you achieve your goal and overcome your problem.

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Problem: Overweight:

Probable Cause: Fear, need for protection, Running away from feelings, Insecurity, Self Rejection, Seeking Fulfillment.

New Thought Pattern: I am at peace with my own feeling. I am safe where I am. I create my own security. I love and approve of myself.

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Problem: Fat

Probable Cause: Oversensitivity. Often represents fear and shows a need for protection. Fear may be a cover for hidden anger and a resistance to forgive.

New Thought Pattern: I am protected by Divine Love. I am always safe and secure. I am willing to grow up and take responsibility for my life. I forgive others and I now create my own life. I forgive others and I now create my own life the way I want it. I am safe.

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Problem: Belly Fat

Probable Cause: Anger at being denied nourishment.

New Thought Pattern: I nourish myself with spiritual food and I am satisfied and free.

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Louise L. Hay also goes on to explain the 'Probable Causes' and 'New Thought Patterns' for Arm Fat, Hip Fat, Thigh Fat as well as many other forms of illnesses and ailments, Louise herself hails this method as a successful part of her strategy to overcome Cancer.

Now I know this method may not be for everybody and it may bring up alot of strong feelings against it and that is fine. If so this method may not be for you. However if like me, you believe there is something in this strategy then give it ago. What have you got to lose? Nothing except the fat and weight you want to lose already.

Please comment below as I would love to hear your views on this post.

Take care and speak soon

Mindful Mark

Thinking That Will Make You Thinner - Part 2

Lets look at some more ways that we can adjust our thinking to make us thinner.

1. What is the best alternative I can come up with, right now?

This works because it come from a point of acceptance of where we are right now and from here we can work out the best journey to our destination because we know our starting point.

2. I will NOT let chocolate determine my self-esteem.

You are perfect as you are, this is important to realise. There are just some behaviour we may need to change, like the amount of chocolate. This is a huge difference and a fantastic way to move forward. Check out our post on Love and Acceptance to learn more

3. My husband is 6’1″ and I am 5’3″ – WHY do I think I could or should eat what he eats?

A useful perspective to use here is to the Eat to Live rather than Live to Eat. We should try and consume the correct amount to keep us at our most healthy enabling us to live a longer life with our family and friends.

4. Buffets are intended for you to have choices, not to eat the whole thing!

So true, the all you can eat buffet mentality is dangerous because of the reasons I mention in point 3. We at Mind Body Weight Loss have discussed this in previous posts called: Hara Hachi Bu - Eat until 80% full

We hope you found this second part of how 'Thinking That Will Make You Thinner' helpful please checkout other in this series:

Thinking That Will Make You Thinner - Part 1
Thinking That Will Make You Thinner - Part 3
Thinking That Will Make You Thinner - Part 4

Take care and speak soon.

Mindful Mark

The source of these thoughts for weight loss come from our friends at conquersugarcravings.com.

Love and Acceptance for Weight Loss

I intended to write a whole section on why love and acceptance for weight loss is important when I searched for an image to support the post I found the image above, which is a really nice summary.

"Love means that you accept a person with all their failures, stupidities, ugly points, and nonetheless you see perfection in imperfection itself."
Zizek

I believe that the person is perfect and that it is some of our behaviours which are imperfect, but luckily for we can change behaviours but we can not change us as whole. I am a very strong believer that our behaviours and us, as a person, are very different things. Lets explain this further we could say to a child that they are silly, or we can say that the child behaved in silly way. The last statement enables the child to love them self as whole but change the silly behaviour.

"Love the person, Dislike the behavior" 

This quote is so powerful and I believe that you as a person is whole perfect and complete and can love and accept yourself in the fullest. And seeing as we spend 24 hours every day with our self loving and accepting our self exactly as we are makes sense.

At this point if you have behaviours you dislike, be grateful and thankful for them for getting you to this point. A point where you love and accept yourself enough to making yourself the best you can be by changing your behaviours. In Buddhism they do not have a word for guilt, they see guilt as pointless. Love and accept that something in the past was done incorrectly but pledge with love, acceptance and kindness to yourself that in the future you would do it (behave) differently. Can you see the difference? Guilt is pointless it is just a way to beat ourselves up and stay stuck in the past. Loving and Accepting exactly where you are gives you a base to adapt your behaviour to make the future exactly as you would like it to be. The power is in the now.

So I love and accept you exactly as you are are, and now I hope you do too. By accepting yourself as you are now gives you a fantastic base to work from to lose weight

Kind regards

Mindful Mark

p.s If you would like to learn more way to love and accept yourself please read 'You can heal your life' by Louise L Hay