Now is that name all that you are or are you more than just that?
Because even the writing on your birth certificate is just a label
of who you are and isn't the real you.
If I ask you what you really are, what the real you is, then I have
yet to know anyone who can answer that. They usually put their hand on
their chest and they have a feeling but they can't actually say who they
truly are.
But yet we all choose to accept labels from others and also label
ourselves.
I work with loads of dieters who label themselves useless, crap,
worst dieter ever, fat, lumpy, chunky, gross etc etc but they are
choosing to accept that label and in fact, create it.
But they realise that they are so much more than just FAT and that
FAT is actually just a perception of who they are. Technically, you are
made up of all sorts of things including WATER but do you go around
telling people how WATERY you are!?
'Hi my name is Mike and I am very watery..."
Therefore give yourself a break! Stop labeling and beating
yourself up for being overweight!
Most dieters have spent their entire dieting career labeling
themselves negatively and not getting the results they want, so, do
something different and stop doing that!
If you keep telling people how useless at dieting you are then
guess what will happen? The same thing that has happened on every other
diet you have done when you haven't got the results you wanted.
Now it took me a while after getting to goal weight to lose my FAT
label, I still felt it applied to me! When people called me slim I used
to want to reject it and justify that I could still lose a few pounds
and that I had loads of loose skin!
But in hindsight I should have accepted the slim label as I was
slim! I was slim but yet I somehow wanted to hang on to a label that was
no longer me because it allowed me to sit in my comfort zone.
Therefore, today's advice is to stop labeling yourself! Unless
of course you are labeling yourself lovely, great, nice or brilliant.
If you don't believe me then spend this week not labeling yourself
negatively and see what a massive difference it makes to the way you
FEEL...because remember, we try to be logic based people who try and
diet based on facts, figures and regimes but the reality is we are
emotional animals and if we choose to believe we are useless at
something or bad at something then we will feel the emotions that it
brings, therefore..... BE NICE TO
YOURSELF!
