FFF "Fighting the Fear of Failure"

I guess we all do it at some point. Second guess ourselves. We ask ourselves, can I REALLY do this? Am I REALLY gonna be successful? We look at the BIG picture, and it seems unobtainable. We start doubting our own ability to make it THAT far. It's HOGWASH.

My best friend just had weightloss surgery. The lap band procedure. She told me the other day, "I think I'm going to be the ONLY person in the world who has EVER had weightloss surgery, and GAINED weight." I couldn't help but laugh. To me it's funny. Not because she will gain weight, but because she WON'T, and she THINKS she will!!
In my mind her weightloss is inevitable. She has had the surgery, the weight WILL come off. Maybe not as fast as she HOPED, but it WILL eventually GO.

The mind, and body is a funny thing! I think one reason she's not losing as much is because she thinks, "This is not going to work!" "Nothing ELSE has worked, so WHY should this work?" It will, and she won't be a failure, but her mind is tricking her body into trying to hold onto the weight. You have to be ready to let it go. ALL of it. The weight, AND your preconceived notions that "I JUST CAN'T LOSE WEIGHT!"

Have you ever heard of women who are trying to get pregnant, and the doctor tells them you just need to relax, and let it happen? (I'm talking about women who are fertile, and healthy, and do not have medical issues preventing their pregnancy.) They are stressing over "WHEN" they will get pregnant. Or, "WHY am I NOT already pregnant?" "WILL I be ABLE to get pregnant???" After a few months of trying, they start saying, "I CAN'T GET PREGNANT!" Then when they finally decide to put it out of their mind, or maybe they even decide to put it OFF for awhile. The next thing you know...BAM!...They're PREGNANT.
I'm telling you the MIND is a powerful thing!

There are days that I think..."Anyday now my weightloss is just going to STOP, and I won't be able to drop another ounce!" BUT...I'm eating a total of 420 calories a day. It is absolutely impossible to maintain this weight at only 420 calories a DAY. I may plateau, everyone does. The body has to stop, take a breather, and re-create set points occasionally, but STOP losing all together??? NO WAY. I won't stop losing, unless I stop doing what I'm doing. That is the ONLY thing I have to be on guard about. DON'T STOP.

Even if your mind is saying, "GIVE UP, this won't work, you are depriving yourself for NO GOOD REASON!" "You will NEVER get to the weight you DREAM of weighing!" You've got to put your MIND in it's place! Think of that voice as your BIGGEST enemy! Whenever it comes around, point out the OBVIOUS. "MY BODY CAN'T MAINTAIN ON THE AMOUNT OF CALORIES IT IS RECEIVEING!!" " I WILL LOSE WEIGHT!" "I AM IN CONTROL OF MY MIND, AND MY BODY." NO BODY HAS ANY RIGHT TO TELL ME THAT I CAN NOT LOSE WEIGHT, BECAUSE I CAN, AND I WILL."

Believe it....ACHIEVE IT!