One of the most common excuses that we use when it comes to losing weight is “I don’t have time to lose weight right now.” Well, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret . . . losing weight doesn’t take time. It takes decisions. It requires giving up the fat girl identity in order to become the “irresistible you” version of yourself. It requires you to change your thoughts about yourself. It requires you to change your thoughts about what weight loss means. You are always one decision away from changing your life. It takes the same amount of time to decide to eat a salad or a cheeseburger. Weight loss is just about a series of decisions that you make over time. In this episode, I’m going to help you break down your BS story about weight loss taking too much time.
Topics Discussed in This Episode
- Ask yourself the question: “Why do I think weight loss takes too much time?”
- Your old diet mentality is why you think this. These BS fad diets DID take a lot of time. They were restrictive. They had us out here running crazy. I remember the 6 week diet. You had to eat like 8 or 10 times a day. It was ridiculous. When you have a lifetime of BS fad diets loaded in your brain, of course you think it’s going to take too much time. You don’t allow yourself room for mistakes in this situation b/c those diets didn’t have any margin for actually living your life.
- You have a BS story that you have created about why weight loss is time consuming because of “how” you’ve tried to lose weight in the past. You have to change that story.
- These are some of the reasons why you’ve built that story.
- You Need an Easy Out with Permission to Quit. You’re so terrified to declare that you’re starting a weight loss journey because you’re terrified you’ll fail. That’s b/c you’ve equated having a cupcake or a dinner out as a failure. Saying there’s no time or now isn’t the perfect time is an easy to excuse to blame your circumstances and people around you for the reasons why you’re not willing to change how you make decisions. When it gets hard or you don’t do it “perfectly”, you can just blame everything else going on around you.
- All or Nothing Perfectionism. “I have to diet perfectly.” I need to throw out all the junk food. I need to eat at all my favorite restaurants. I need to buy a pretty planner. I need to buy new workout clothes and join a gym. I need to look recipes up on Pinterest and TikTok. I need to meal prep.
- Busy as a Badge of Honor. “There’s too much going on in my life right now. I can’t focus on losing weight. I need to wait until XYZ slows down.” Busy as a badge of honor is a form of distraction. It’s a form of denial. There is no such thing as a perfect time.
The Ways That You Waste Time on the Yo-Yo Diet/Body Hate Shame Cycle
You think that losing weight is going to be time consuming. It’s not. Have you considered what you’re actually wasting your time on?
- Constant guilt and shame about being overweight. The inner fat bitch chatter is loud.
- Arguing with yourself about what to eat/feeling guilty about it later.
- Obsessively researching the next big bullshit diet.
- Scrolling social media feeling bad about yourself because you see other people crushing their weight loss goals or hating on other women.
- Looking up the weight requirements for every single outing.
- Sitting around overeating and binge watching a new series.
- Waiting for the weight.
- Waiting for the “perfect” time when life slow down. There isn’t a perfect time.
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Hi! I’m Aimee with 2 E’s. I'm a confidence coach that empowers women to love themselves by breaking down body image issues, so that they can lose the emotional weight and gain the confidence to look and feel irresistible...at any size.