Let’s say you have an (imaginary) daughter.
Imagine that from the day she was born, you taught her that she couldn’t trust her body.
Every single day you would tell her she couldn’t possibly know when she was hungry or full, or how to move her body that feels good.
You would tell her that she needed to follow someone else’s plan because they knew better what she needed. And if she deviated from the plan she was a bad girl.
And then suddenly, on her 10th birthday, you would tell her you were just joking and that she really can trust her body and move with confidence.
How long would it take for her to actually believe it? How long would it take for her to truly trust her body’s hunger and fullness cues? When would she finally feel free to exercise and move her body with joy?
It would take a very long time for her to believe she could trust her body.
What I’m trying to demonstrate here is that building a better relationship with your body and food takes a long time to master.
Especially if you had a troubled relationship with food and your body for most of your life.
Diet culture has told you that your body can’t be trusted, and you’ve believed it. And it’s not just about food.
Probably nobody ever told you that it’s okay to suck at sports. Or that you can simply move your body because it felt good or brought you joy.
On the contrary, fitness and exercise were just as shame-filled as eating.
There are so many contradicting opinions about what you should — or shouldn’t — do. But these opinions just trigger waves of guilt and shame in you because none of them worked for you.
Many people who struggle with their weight eat healthily the majority of the time. They often know a lot more about nutrition than most people because they’ve been on every diet known to man.
The so-called principles of weight loss really aren’t that complicated.
What makes it hard is working through a lot of emotional baggage, stress, childhood and diet culture conditioning that bring you down and make you overeat. Working on accepting your body and taking better care of yourself is the challenge. Feeling your emotions instead of avoiding them is difficult but necessary.
Self-work, the inner stuff that nobody sees, is harder than just following someone’s eating or fitness plan.
But it’s needed and it’s the only way you can have permanent long-term results.
You’ve tried many diets already. They probably worked for a while and you lost some weight. But because you didn’t do the inner work, the results didn’t last.
If you want to have a real transformation, you need to learn to listen to your body’s signals, work on your mindset and update your beliefs.
A big portion of this inner self-work involves positive affirmations.
You use these affirmations like personal mantras. Every time you notice a negative thought emerge about your body, your eating, or your life (that normally would make you feel bad and drive you to comfort yourself with food), you replace those thoughts with affirmations you purposefully chose for those situations.
Instead of going through each day on autopilot and thinking about food, movement, and your body as you’ve done for decades, you’ll remind yourself that you’re changing your mindset now.
It takes time to finally start believing more positive thoughts about yourself and override the lessons learned in your youth. It takes time to overcome the fear or shame instilled in you by misguided people.
To be honest, it takes a great deal of effort to change your mind after following diet culture rules for such a long time. You need to train your brain like you train your muscles.
The good news is that it’s completely worth it.
I specifically designed this collection of affirmations to reprogram your mind around food, your body and your life. They are the antidotes to the most common negative beliefs and thoughts about body image, weight loss and habit changes.
My clients absolutely love these affirmations. I make personalized affirmations videos and audio recordings for my private clients to reprogram their thoughts and beliefs that are holding them back.
Now you can have a taste of these for a fraction of the price.
These affirmations can really help you change the script. The beliefs we cling to and the stories we tell ourselves really matter.
What we tell ourselves shapes and creates our life.
Fortunately, what we tell ourselves also happens to be one of the things that we can actually change!
You can find inspiration in these nearly 400 affirmations to change the script running in your head.
You will find 1 video, 2 audio recordings and more than 300 written affirmations beautifully formatted on printable pages so you can either listen to or read these mantras every day to reprogram your unconscious mind. This way the hard inner work becomes much easier and the desired results come faster.
