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Do You Believe?

What you believe directly influences your habits and behaviors so it is important to ask yourself what you believe about the holidays and in particular about holiday eating.

Do you believe it is impossible to eat healthy during the holiday season?

Do you believe that weight gain is an unavoidable side-effect of the holidays?

What you believe will determine how you act so in Part 2 of our Happy Healthy Holiday Series you will discover how to create beliefs that support your weight loss efforts while still allowing you to enjoy the fun and good things this time of year brings.

This recording titled, Do You Believe? is 3:13 in length.  Simply click on this link Happy Healthy Holiday Part 2 to hear the recording or scroll down and read the transcript below.

Enjoy and have a happy and healthy holiday!

Dr. Becky

Transcript of the Recording

Do You Believe?

 

Hi Everyone, This is Dr. Becky Gillaspy with Part 2 of my Happy HEALTHY Holiday Series and I want to start by asking you a question.  Do you believe it is possible to lose weight during the holiday season?  Or even to avoid gaining weight during this time of year?

 

Telling yourself you want to do something is different than believing that you can.  You can tell yourself that you want to eat well during the holidays but on a deeper level if you don’t believe that it’s possible you won’t make the healthy eating choices you desire, but the good news is you can easily build beliefs that will support you and your weight loss efforts.

 

You see your beliefs are not necessarily truths, they are just thoughts that you have come to believe as truths based on how you interpreted past experiences.

 

Therefore, since you created your current beliefs you can now choose to stop focusing on those beliefs that limit you and start to build new beliefs that naturally inspire and motivate you to lose weight and eat well.

 

Building new beliefs is a very simple process yet it will not happen overnight, so you will want to start now to create these new beliefs that support your weight loss goal and then repeat them over and over to yourself on a daily basis.

 

You might want to start repeating a belief statement such as, “I feel alive and full of energy when I eat fruits and vegetables.”  “I have so many opportunities to eat well this holiday season.” “I feel at peace and calm around holiday treats.”

 

Building new beliefs really is this simple and remember you will want to keep your new belief building statement in the present tense, as if you are already doing it and keep it positive, avoid using phrases like, “I don’t want to overeat.”  “I am not going to eat cookies.” Instead say, “I feel great eating just the right amount to fill me up.” 

 

And also “feel” the words when you say them.  For instance, if you choose to adopt the new belief, “I feel at peace and calm around holiday treats.”  Then actually bring up the peaceful feeling as you imagine a tray of treats sitting in front of you.

 

Build your positive beliefs this holiday season and you will find that you can enjoy this time of year on your own terms.

 

Thank you for listening, enjoy all the blessing that surround you and with a little shift in your thoughts and beliefs you can make this a happy and HEALTHY holiday season.