I bought Bob Harper’s new book “Are You Ready?” and he gives a list of questions in the first chapter I assume to see if you really are ready to lose the weight: Do you trust the process? Do you trust yourself? Can you suspend disbelief and trust in a Higher Power, God, yourself, or the Universe to help you through this period of change?
I don’t. I can’t.
His questions helped me realize what I’m missing. I have a plan, written down in detail. I have a daily checklist. If I do these things, I will lose weight. But I just don’t believe it’s possible.
But I can’t seem to get up the “mentality”, the belief that I can do this again, that I can succeed and wind up in a place, a body that I want (still have the “loose skin” nightmares). So each morning, I talk myself out of my workout and by each evening, I’m off my diet plan. I am walking more, but I know that if I don’t stick with my eating plan, all my exercise only helps me maintain, which is something. But it seems useless if I can’t get to the body I’m dreaming of.
So far, I’m venting. I appreciate you listening. I don’t know where to go with this. I don’t know how you learn to believe again.
Thanks,
Barb