Having worked one-on-one with thousands of people in the past 17 years, I’ve been privy to seeing human psychology up close and personal. Having done a lot of self-discovery work, self-reflections, and various therapies, I’ve also been privy to my own psychology!
Here are the top 7 limiting beliefs I see that actively block people from achieving their health and weight loss goals, and I’ll explain how they work.
How On Earth Do BELIEFS Block Weight Loss?
The Beliefs that the MIND holds, and particularly the way that the mind sees the world, affects the actions we see available to take.
This is called your ‘FRAME’ or Frame of Reference.
Here’s an example.
If you’re on the main floor of a condo building and you see total gridlock traffic outside the door, you might be afraid to leave, or wonder what’s going on. The available actions you see to take, let’s say in the absence of having a phone or internet, is to just stay put until things clear up.
But if I were to take you to the 30th story of that condo building and we look out the window, you have a completely different FRAME (literally, like a picture frame around what you’re seeing). You can see that only one highway is blocked because of an accident, and you can see that the subway or streetcar stop is close by and unimpeded by traffic. You now see TOTALLY DIFFERENT actions you can take: walk to the streetcar, walk to the subway, or still stay put if you want to, or run across the roofs of cars until you reach your destination. (Why limit your imagination!?)
Another way I look at frames is imagine standing with your eye one inch away from an elephant. If you had no other data to gather from (sound, or smell, for example) and I ask you what you’re looking at, you might describe gray, wrinkly skin or something similar.
If I get you to step 20 feet back and ask what you see, you have a different point of view. You can tell me that it’s an elephant.
It’s not that your first experience wasn’t true. But maybe your second experience was… truer? One of my favourite Money coaches, Amanda Frances, always asks, “Is there a thought that’s TRUER than the one you’ve been having?” She mentions that there are multiple realities available to us. And I believe one of those realities has you easily reaching your weight loss goals.
A good Coach or Therapist is adept at pinpointing when your FRAME on yourself, your health, your life or your body isn’t SERVING you, and isn’t accurate – and they can help you REFRAME it to something more accurate.
With a different frame, with different BELIEFS – you will see NEW actions to take toward your goals, and feel reinvigorated with hope.
For example, you might be including low-fat dairy in your diet because you heard one study say it aids in weight loss. But if I corrected your frame of reference around dairy and said, “Yes but that study was done on men, or male athletes, and or was funded by the dairy industry; and the manner in which dairy spikes insulin for women makes it very hard to release any weight,” and taught you about all the insulin spiking foods, you might take brand new actions such as avoiding insulin spiking foods. Including dairy!
The way the world OCCURS (your frame of reference) affects which actions you see to take.
The actions you take shape the results you have.
So if you want new results, the easiest way is to shift the way things occur to you. Some call this a paradigm shift.
On that note, let’s dig into the top nine limiting beliefs that may be blocking your weight loss.
Belief 1: Cycling is Weird; I Want to Eat The Same Way for Maintenance as for Weight LOSS
This is the MOST COMMON limiting belief that I encounter: People want to discover a way of eating that they can do *right now* that is a ‘lifestyle’ and not a diet. And they want it to be how they eat for life, to deliver weight loss now, and weight maintenance later.
Across industry professionals and weight loss research, we all know at the core that calories DO matter, and that the only way to truly lose weight, is to create a caloric deficit.
However, what most people won’t tell you is that maintaining a caloric deficit is psychologically draining and metabolically damaging. Biology almost always trumps willpower, meaning, your body will not let you feel hungry forever before rebelling. This typically looks like immense cravings and even binge eating high-calorie foods to restore baseline, thus regaining all the weight you lost.
For that reason, many weight loss experts (myself included), rely on CYCLING between caloric deficits for 6 – 12 weeks, and caloric maintenance for 6 – 12 weeks to stabilize and lock in the new set point. Even if you don’t believe in set points, surely any logical person can see the value in maintaining healthy eating habits for 6 – 12 weeks while ensuring they maintain their new weight loss.
Maintaining a caloric deficit for more than 6 – 12 weeks typically leads to misery, cheating, binge eating / rebound eating, regaining weight, and so forth.
I also find with the women I work with, we tend to be motivated by more drastic weight reductions. There ARE a select few people that can do maintenance eating and lose weight – my friends and I famously remember our colleague who ditched cream from her coffee and lost 25lbs. Sure, this happens, and is the exception, not the rule. She was also 29!!!! Things change after 40. So there ARE some people and some plans that create very tiny caloric reductions each day – the kind that are easier to tolerate on the psyche, to the tune of 100 – 250 calories reduced per day. This is the ONLY amount of deficit you might be able to get away with longterm psychologically speaking, but it will still lower your metabolism over time. Thing is, weight loss at this rate happens at a snail’s pace and is often almost imperceptible between all the water weight that women lose and regain during a cycle or due to general hormones and stress. Plus eating a single food your body doesn’t like will retain enough water to hide your weight losses. It’s INCREDIBLY demotivating, amiright?
Personally for myself (ADHD) and the women I work with (often also ADHD, AuDHD or generally neurodivergent), we are far more motivated to stay the course for a 4 – 6 week round of effective caloric restriction of over 500 calories a day. We then see MARKED weight loss sometimes as high as 10 – 15lbs a month, due to losing fat as well as the water weight caused by inflammatory foods. Losing 10 – 15lbs in a month is HIGHLY motivating. This is one entire dress size (or two). LOCK IN, B*TCH, let’s go. (Says me to my body). (Remember, B*ITCH means a Babe In Total Control of Herself). Get ‘er done and then move on with your life to caloric maintenance for a few weeks before doing it again – as many rounds it takes to reach goal.
Some women I speak with aren’t willing to do a 4 – 6 week larger caloric deficit – even if I tell them we can make it extremely comfortable and do-able, effective and highly motivating – and sure enough, when I check in with these women months or even years later, they are still struggling with their weight. That’s because for most people, micro weight loss that is imperceptible is highly demotivating.
So which strategy is more effective?
Creating a 100 – 250 calorie deficit that works but results are barely noticeable and you constantly ‘fall off’ and never get to your goal?
Or a down and dirty, highly committed 500+ caloric deficit for 4 weeks that creates a very perceptible weight shed followed by stabilizing for 4+ weeks on maintenance calories?
I would rather lose 15lbs in one month and 0 pounds the next, just stabilizing myself in month 2 – than attempt to lose 2-4lbs in one month and 2-4lbs the next…. but fail. Constantly.
Which would you pick? 15lbs down in 2 months? Or 0 – 8lbs down in 2 months? Written that way, it tends to be easier to see how crazy this is.
Belief 2: I Don’t Want To Mess With My Hormones
I often hear this when I suggest women consider supplementation for their hormone imbalances that are blocking weight loss. Women are, understandably, worried to create MORE hormonal imbalances or even touch their hormones in the first place. (And no, I’m not talking about GLP1s, as those do have very marked negative side effects in a lot of people.)
The thing is, you are in a 24/7 dialogue with your hormones.
Do you expose yourself to early morning light? Or blue light all day from big and tiny screens?
Do you eat starch? or protein? Or fat? Or do you avoid eating? All of these options shift hormones.
Do you stress? Rush? Or not? All options affect hormones.
Do you take hot or cold showers, saunas, cold plunges? All options affect hormones.
Do you wear polyester clothing, or underwear, or use bleached tampons or pads? All options here affect hormones. Is there anything on your body that isn’t cotton, linen or another natural fiber? Your hormones are being affected (negatively).
Saying you don’t want to interact with your hormones is like saying you don’t want your blood to flow or your body to breathe air. It’s already happening – constantly. And you’re already affecting it – constantly. If you exercise, run for your bus late, lay in bed, or jump up quickly, you’re already altering blood flow and breathing rate in the body. Tsk tsk.
Bumping hormones around is already part of being ALIVE. Are you going to make this fact work FOR you, or against you?
Are you going to take actions that give you HEALTHY hormonal expression? Or continue the ones that are causing you to hang onto persistent, stubborn body fat?
Belief 3: I’m a Unique Snowflake, Nothing Works For Me
Life tends to happen in cycles: breakdowns leading to breakthroughs. You might discover something about your body that’s been blocking your weight loss, have a breakdown about it, allow yourself exactly five minutes to wallow in it, and feel all the feels. And then move on.
What you resist, persists but what you allow yourself to feel, can heal!
So I’m not suggesting pushing through like a bull in a China shop. Do stop and process things. But the problem is when we get STUCK there, allowing ourselves to wallow in victim mode.
“Something is uniquely wrong with me; I eat healthy and the weight won’t come off. My doctor says my labs are normal. Or my doctor says my labs are so messed up I’ll never lose weight.”
Neither is true. In fact I’ve seen hundreds of women with DIAGNOSED low thyroid (hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s) go on to shed weight and even reverse their thyroid issues, and come off of medication. This is because most thyroid issues are due to food issues.
I promise you: You don’t have Alien physiology. Unless you’re a reptilian, then I can’t help you. (I’m just not trained in that biochemistry).
I also promise you, the odds of you truly being beyond some kind of health salvation with respect to weight loss are slim to none.
Now, you MAY require more intensive interventions than a 20-year-old with a two pound weight loss goal. And feel free to mourn that. But that doesn’t make you a damaged, unique snowflake beyond salvation. You just haven’t found your strategy or your Guide yet. And on that note I find people often want to stay in victim mode around their weight because they aren’t yet ready to do the more intensive work around actually healing and rebalancing their weight. I get it. When you were 20 you could keep your coffee with sugar and just take out the cream and lose 2lbs (or 25, like our colleague). How great was that? Now you have to actually eat all whole foods for 4 weeks and yes that can be daunting, especially if you’ve never done it. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. You can DO HARD THINGS! And maybe even fall in LOVE with them in the process!? I promise you, you can become more ADDICTED to how good you feel – energized, mentally clear, and lean – than how addicted you may currently be to milk chocolate, wine, cheese, or whatever other culprit is in your way.
The more we are clinging to being a victim is usually due to how tightly we are holding onto our food addictions – ones we likely won’t admit to and are possibly subconscious. Just ask yourself which food(s) you would miss the most on a deserted island, or put yourself on a detox and find out firsthand!
Belief 4: I Shouldn’t Need Help Losing Weight
Unfortunately we are now living as domesticated animals, and we are our own, somewhat untrained zookeepers. We no longer walk an average of 5 – 7 miles a day securing food and shelter the way our ancestors did. We no longer experience sprints while hunting on a regular basis, or fast regularly (not by choice), as our ancestors did. We no longer only work 20 hours a week as hunter gatherers did and we no longer spend the other 20+ hours socializing, raising children, dancing around fires or copulating. And yes, I have studied a LOT of anthropology about our ancestors, and I promote incorporating paleo principles where possible.
To be in the physical state our body was intended for, we now have to make a conscious effort. And, it’s not everyone’s area of expertise. If you’ve been trying to do it on your own for a long time without successful results, or yo-yo results; or have invested at a very low level and not gotten results, it may be time to seek expert help to expedite the process. Why spend so much time GETTING there, when you can get there and learn how to STAY there, which is a very different thing? Someone who regularly guides people on this journey can save you time and ultimately money, too.
What breaks my heart the most is this: My 90 year old grandmother STILL talks about her weight loss goals, as does my 65 year old mom. How many years of our lives are we going to be talking about this? WOuldn’t it be nice to just ARRIVE there and talk about how we’re MAINTAINING it instead? How saddening is it to have an 80+ year goal you’ve never achieved? And for it to be about your body, your number one forever home, isn’t that even more depressing? If an expert can help you get there and prevent being 90 with a weight loss goal, why not take that option?
Speaking of experts, it’s also important to surround yourself with people – or at least one person – who normalizes the experience of eating healthy and being lean and fit. The top five people you interact with will define what is ‘normal’ to your subconscious. Will they be normalizing obesity, junk food, drama, and alcoholism? Or will they be normalizing a healthy lifestyle?
Belief 5: Information is the same as Transformation
Many people believe they are taking action toward their goal of shedding weight but they’re really only gathering information. They will spend YEARS, unknowingly, in an information gathering stage. One of my business coaches termed this, “Putting a bandaid on cancer.” Until you get how dire the situation actually is, and that bandaids (gathering more info) won’t help, only then will you take the ACTIONS and see the RESULTS, which is the transformation.
Transformation trumps information.
My business coach had another saying, think of it what you will: “There are people dumber than you being more successful than you right now.”
This is to say that it isn’t about gathering more info or becoming smarter on a topic. Taking ACTIONS is what moves the needle. He would often say this when we were all getting caught up in how to do something a smarter, more complicated way. And sometimes being more informed is actually worse? As you will get caught in your own mental gymnastics, trying to make sense of conflicting info.
A weight loss coach or consultant can quickly identify where you’re stuck and which actions will unstick you as quickly as possible.
Gathering information like reading new weight loss books can be exciting and release a lot of dopamine, because they tend to “change your FRAME” around things. But until you take actual actions toward or inside that frame, you still won’t see results. And unfortunately, your brain clocks ‘information gathering’ as making progress toward your goal, but the scale still says a different story.
Belief 6: Losing Weight Quickly Is Bad
We all agree that ultimately, caloric deficits are what lead to weight loss. And YES there is nuance to this, because if you are insulin-resistant, for instance, you will *always feel hungry* and it will be INCREDIBLY difficult to create a deficit. So that needs to be corrected first.
From there, you can either create a long-term, SMALL deficit to the tune of 100 – 250 calories. The body mostly won’t notice this other than some hunger pangs here and there, and it likely won’t shut down metabolism until several months of this. However, it will lead to possibly half a pound of weight loss PER WEEK, which is incredibly slow, and often not noticeable because of shifts of water weight in the body.
You can instead do LARGER caloric deficits, for only 4 weeks for example, and notice a substantial weight loss like 10 – 15lbs. Some of this is almost always due to water weight flushing away as you cut out inflammatory foods which attract and hold excess water (inflammation) in the body. It can also be due to the breakdown of the capillaries, and the blood, that was once serving the now-dissolved fat cells.
You can then spend the next 4 weeks simply stabilizing your new weight, and going back to normal calories, so as to avoid dropping your metabolism.
I don’t know about you but, I’d rather lose 15lbs in month 1, and 0lbs or maybe a couple pounds in month 2; than 4lbs in two months with what feels like a lot of effort on whole foods and almost nothing to show for it. This also leads to behaviours like, “Might as well have unhealthy treats this weekend because what I’m doing is barely working anyways.”
(This will be addressed in the next limiting belief below).
I also need to make one more thing clear: Losing weight quickly CAN be bad if you’re losing *needed* water from the body, such as professional boxers who will sweat nearly to death to make a lower weight class. And it’s also bad if you’re losing weight quickly because you’re starving yourself to the point of eating your own muscle internally.
But if you’re shedding legitimate fat tissue, and the extra water weight in your system due to food reactions and so forth? And you’re doing it through healthy means? Not likely an issue. In fact most people do BETTER to get rid of that fat more quickly, as excess body fat is quite poisonous to the human body. It up-regulates inflammation, dishes out bad hormones, promotes insulin resistance and damages the joints. Better out than in!
Belief 7: All-Or-Nothing Mentality & “To Hell With It” Itis
There is quite literally a term in weight loss research called “To Hell with it.” This is when weight loss program participants throw in the towel and eat a giant slab of cheesecake, or whatever the stray food may be that totally undoes their goals. I think we’ve all had a “to hell with it” moment. You’re on a cleanse, detox, or other program, and suddenly someone at the family reunion / office event / networking meet up offers you a divine looking treat. Since you’ve only been seeing half a pound of weight loss per week (if that), despite all your efforts and struggles, and if you’re say – STARVING – because your insulin and leptin haven’t been worked on yet – you’re very likely to lean toward the “to hell with it” syndrome and throw out your detox as you gorge on a slab of cake.
I’ll keep saying it across my blog articles: As much as this is mindset, it’s actually even more so our brilliant BIOLOGY protecting us. The body does not like going too hungry for too long and it will always find a way to fight back, especially if it’s unable to reliably tap into body fat for fuel because insulin is sub-clinically high. I work with women to help rebalance this biology, take the obstacle OUT of your way, and make the mindset aspect so much easier to deal with, as a result.
An all-or-nothing mentality can have you wallowing in cheesecake for days after one wrong move. It’s better to shift into a mindset of “every decision counts, every decision matters.” Not in a debilitating way, but in an empowering way. No, one wrong decision won’t throw everything away. So make the NEXT decision count for the better. Don’t commit every decision for the next 48 hours (or 48 days) toward poor eating and movement habits.
If this is a CONSISTENT issue for you, I would hazard a guess that it’s more so your biology that needs supporting. We can quite simply and quickly correct insulin and leptin symptoms with the right foods and food timing. (Literally within days, your appetite will naturally drop). You just have to be truly committed to sticking to those whole foods. As long as insulin stays high, you will never tap into body fat for fuel effectively, and your appetite will remain high because of this, and sticking to ANY caloric deficit will be nearly impossible.
Belief 8: It’s Not The Right Time
I often tell women to set aside 7 or so weeks to a truly whole foods detox. Some women (not my clients! Typically friends asking about weight loss methods) will look at me and say they “just can’t find a seven week block.” Meaning a time period with no events, no holidays, no birthdays etc. I can already tell these women will probably never be successful with weight loss, because they are at the whim of life itself. Tossed around by whatever’s coming down the pipe. Successful women, on the other hand, which thankfully represent the majority of women I speak to, and ALL the women I work with, don’t bend to the universe, they make the universe bend toward THEM. This is the first step of manifesting… the body of your dreams, the life of your dreams. But it’s also just NEUROSCIENCE and rewiring the brain! Successful women DECLARE that they will make whatever 7 weeks work that they want to. I’ve seen women do this through weddings, funerals, moving homes, changing jobs, changing careers, leaving relationships, starting relationships, starting new businesses, becoming new grandmothers, taking on large new hobbies like buying a horse. I’ve seen women do this through weekends of spa getaways, bachelorette parties, weekends in Vegas, birthday parties, business meetings and conferences.
When a woman wants something, she can make the Universe bend to serve and accommodate her.
And, to be truly honest, this is the magic many women discover for themselves when we work on weight loss together. This is what I as a consultant LIVE FOR when working with someone. That moment when she realizes anything is possible. She can ask for custom meals. She can bring her own meals. She can bring an air fryer to her hotel. She can rent an Air BnB with a kitchen instead. She can look up healthy fast food delivery. She can order an Edible Arrangement for her birthday cake. The possibilities are endless. And the spillover effect in the rest of her life is magical. All of a sudden, SOLUTIONS… for EVERYTHING…. start showing up everywhere in her life. Having a Can-Do attitude, a mindset in POSSIBILITY, is fertile ground for manifesting just about anything.
When you start to truly embody who you’re meant to be, the junk food and treat food and wine don’t deliver the same euphoria as feeling lit up about who you get to BE, and how you get to LOOK (your best).
You will find new treat foods – dark chocolate; oysters; steak; raw ‘cheesecake,’ who knows which ones you’ll gravitate to.
And so there is an unspoken magic in being inside the conversation of declaring that you will MAKE 7 weeks work for you.
And Listen, there is NUANCE to this conversation. If you are going through a severely traumatic period in your life, I’m going to agree with you: It is likely not the right time to pursue a weight loss program. Only you can decide that. This limiting belief section is not speaking to those situations. It’s speaking to the limiting belief that “I’ll only do this for myself when everything lines up perfectly.” As George S. Patton said, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” Because we all know, next week never really comes. “Yesterday, you said Tomorrow.”
Belief 9: Constant Self-Sabotage
This is not a conscious limiting belief, but rather a series of SUBCONSCIOUS limiting beliefs you might not even know you’ve been programmed with.
At risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I don’t truly believe the systems that be are here to really help or save you. I think there are good and kind people working within those systems, sometimes, but the thing as a whole does not care about us. I believe, from having witnessed it my entire life, that there are forces at play that brainwash our subconscious, so that we self-sabotage on a consistent basis and become easier to control. A sick, unhealthy human is a weak and suggestible human.
Think about it: Many of us watch TV or movies which feature infidelity, alcoholism, excessive coffee drinking, junk food, childish behaviours, unbridled lust and the like. This is all purposely paired with a laugh track because our subconscious brain loves comedy. (Has anyone recently seen Two Poor Girls on Netflix? It will program your subconscious with absolutely awful things). The subconscious messaging of most TV shows is also meant to keep us poor by highlighting the problems with the rich or problems with BEING rich. They also highlight drama and unrest, promoting problems in relationships and friendships. Think about it. When was the last time you saw a TV show or movie with all truly healthy examples in it? Healthy examples of eating, relating, dating, etc? It’s probably too boring for the masses to watch anyways.
The human subconscious picks up on billions of bits of data a minute and makes decisions we don’t even realize. Its main goal is to keep you safe and it does so by promoting a herd mentality, because human beings are, after all, tribal creatures. Whatever you SEE the top five people you interact with doing (including on TV, movies, and podcasts), is what your subconscious will wire you to see as normal.
Is everyone around you drinking to solve their problems? Using retail therapy? Diving into junk food to soothe their emotions?
This will become ‘the new normal’ to you.
Your brain is unable to distinguish between television and reality, so if you watch a lot of TV, it will think the characters you see most are part of your ‘tribe’ and try to mimic them.
So if you have set conscious goals to shed weight, eat healthier, and move more, and yet you seem to constantly self-sabotage yourself, I would take an inventory of what your subconscious mind is being exposed to.
I don’t drink and I remember staying at my parents for a few days where multiple cute signs on the wall say things like, “Is it Wine O’Clock yet?” and “I drink coffee until it’s time for wine.” They also have a large, open, beautiful liquor cabinet, and regularly enjoy Happy Hour. Within one day I felt myself craving alcohol. (Maybe it was just due to interacting with my parents!) Being around that signage, the open cabinet, and their own behaviours normalized drinking for me on that particular stay.
Also, I’ll never forget two particular clients I worked with. Both of them recognized that the life they were living wasn’t supporting their weight or health. One, a woman in her thirties, working a work-hard, play-hard corporate gig, surrounded by friends who drank excessively after work and on the weekends. She had never worked out in her life but decided to not only join a gym but an entire CrossFit community. Exercise became a way of life. She met new friends. Her Holidays became sit-down meals at the gym with her new community, where people normalized sobriety for her and healthy eating. She lost the weight AND met her boyfriend! A relationship which continued to support her new way of living, while her former friends made fun of her new way of being. After a confrontation with her best friend about this, they actually decided to make the switch and join her in this healthy new community too! Again… this is the magic that we see happen regularly around here.
The second was a young man in his early 30s. He owned several night clubs and was exposed to hard drugs and alcohol. We were working on rebalancing his enlarged liver and shedding excess body fat. Our initial plan saw him trading vodka sodas for just soda water (winking at the bar tender so his buddies wouldn’t know he was opting out). Peer pressure is real. He healed his body, his weight and eventually his mind. He now owns a business coaching venture and is focused heavily on wellness, got married and became a dad promoting a healthy lifestyle for his family. And yes! His liver returned to its normal size.
In both cases these individuals realized that they were subconsciously programming themselves to normalize alcohol, hard drugs, bad food and bad habits because of the environments they were in, and the triggers they were surrounding themselves with.
They chose to pursue their weight loss and wellness goals from within their current environment while making moves to completely change the environment – and subconscious messaging – around them. And this level of commitment is REAL. You better believe they didn’t just lose weight – they got new relationships, new jobs / careers / businesses, and new families out of this commitment.
The journey of Wholistic Weight Loss is but one door into the labyrinth of discovering yourself and what you’re capable of. What you learn here creates ripple effects throughout your entire life.
I myself delved into mind control, mentalists, and the subconscious mind after doing a Hypnobirthing Course with my first pregnancy in 2012. I then went on to teach hypnobirthing and use hynotherapy in general with my patients for health purposes, and became interested in the work of others using hypnotherapy like Marissa Peer. I also did course work under and began doing subconscious inventories using the work of Jason Christoff. I created a course called Clear, Calm & Conscious: The Clean Mind Course, in case you want to delve deeper specifically into this aspect of your health. You can access it here.
When to See A Therapist
There is a difference between coaching and therapy. In some instances where your habits are based in severe trauma and you haven’t processed that, working with a therapist may be more helpful. In my career helping patients, I only referred a few out because I quickly realized coaching and Naturopathic medicine couldn’t help them. They were completely unable to stick to any of our plans, and coaching strategies and lifestyle counselling seemed to be ineffective interventions. Why? The women in question had been obese since they were children, possibly babies, possibly born into severe insulin resistance and a multi-generation lineage of weight issues. But they also experienced a lot of trauma as children, and it was evident that they were unable to maintain healthy habits due to a deeper level of self-sabotage or rather, self protection. In these instances, you can work with a therapist while going through a weight loss program, or focus on therapy first and weight loss second. I have found this demographic to be rare, but it is worth mentioning. If you’re experiencing these limiting beliefs mentioned above and they just don’t seem to shift with any conscious effort, therapy – even somatic therapies – may be an aligned choice for you.
In Conclusion
In conclusion, you can see that shedding weight isn’t just about deciding to eat a certain way, and do a certain exercise program. That’s the EASY part. The hard part is all the obstacles we encounter on the path to success, many of which have a conscious or subconscious limiting belief behind them.
Having a weight loss coach or consultant who can help you identify this and power through it can make the difference between reaching your goals – or not.
Behavioural Change (and changing your MIND) is often where the real work of weight shedding happens.
If you enjoyed this post, I have a complimentary 90 minute video (Video 8 in my Goddess Body Guidelines Series) expanding on these beliefs. It actually highlights a total of 14 thoughts that may be blocking you. There are 7 other videos in the series that explain various aspects of how to shed weight holistically. Sink into it for free here: https://products.drericarobinson.com/gbg/
