I was a bit cynical in my review of The Secret, but I have to admit something…
It really changed my thinking.
After reading the review you probably didn’t get that feeling, but it did. I’ve felt a major shift in my mindset in the past few days. It’s something huge and something that I know will bring about some good weight loss success. Want to know what that shift was?
I started thinking of my future healthy self.
Sounds pretty simple, right?
But for me it wasn’t. For the longest time I’ve been trying to lose weight but I haven’t been able to get past 200 lbs. For the longest time I’ve thought things like “I can’t even imagine what I would look like under that weight.” “I can’t set a goal weight because I don’t know what I’ll look like in the future.” My inability to see, to comprehend myself as a smaller person, has been one of my biggest mental stumbling blocks. It’s been a lot easier to stay the weight that I am or above it because I know what that’s like. I know what I look like and feel like and what size clothes I need to buy. Anything under than 200 is foreign, and slightly scary, territory. When I’ve tried to picture it I’ve gotten scared or confused and often self-sabotaged myself so that I wouldn’t succeed.
Although I don’t
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