WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE DAY 13-HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED

How to motivate yourself into losing weight

10 proven ways:

If you stick with these 10 proven ways to motivate yourself, success is guaranteed!

1.   Listen to a weight release hypnosis CD in the morning and at night. It will relax you and activate your sub-conscious desire to reach your weight loss goal.

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2.   Go back to DAY 4 of the weight loss challenge and re-establish your whys...This is the juice of the program, if you have enough reasons why you are losing weight or why you want to...then the reasons are the driving force.

3.   Be around  people who are health conscious and are living a wholesome life. Now, you know this works right?

4.   Look forward to your workouts! YES! I can’t wait to get on my elliptical and watch a little movie, listen to a book on the IPOD, music...it is my time! The time that I carve for myself and I covet this moment! After my exercise I feel my feel good hormones surging through my system! Yoga makes me feel strong and centered! Jillian Michaels, makes me body hurt, but then I feel a sense of accomplishment when I cannot lift my arm, or my leg :)! Think of exercise as an enjoyment, something like play and not a task!

5.   Every week create your weight loss plan. My clients love this system!  They enter the time they are going to work out and they also make a meal plan!

6.   Let your goals be realistic! Have the one year goal, but let each week be realistic, so when you attain it you feel triumphant, thereby creating more success.

7.   Affirmations are the key to your success! Keep positive index cards all around you, where they are mostly visible, as reminders for your success.   Affirmations like “I love my slim tummy!” “I am slim and sexy” “I enjoy wearing pretty clothes” “I enjoy my size …..".

8.   Write down all the benefits of losing  your weight. No matter how shallow the benefit might be, be real with you when writing this and read it every morning!

9.   Get an old pair of jeans, shorts that you looked fly in...Or buy a new hot pair and hang it in the front row of your closet, where it is visible every morning when you change!

10.               The most important element is to celebrate your success. Each goal that you achieve, every milestone you reach, remember to reward yourself!  Enjoy a manicure/pedicure, a spa day, a massage, a good book when you reach one of your mini goals! And when you reach your goal weight, go for a swimsuit party or have one!! J

Bonus tip: It took you a long time to put on that weight so Be patient with yourself….you can do it! 

                       

My name is Adwiti Subba Haffner and I am a Certified Personal Transformation Coach. I teach women and anyone else (also via Skype sessions) to make that internal leap from where you are to where you want to be in the external world from achieving your most audacious dreams to finding profound success , fulfillment and inner peace. Check out my testimonials and invest in yourself and let us make that leap forward!!

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WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE DAY 12-VISION BOARD

Vision Board..

Vision Boarding is a fun tool to include in the weight loss program, it is a visual representation of what you would love to achieve. Our mind sees, or feels, or thinks in pictures because everything that we see is like living photographs. 

How moved do you feel when you are confronted with the vastness of the ocean, how expansive do you feel when standing in front of beautiful mountains….pictures and photographs can evoke similar responses in your mind and your brain. These pictures and quotations can propel you forward toward your dream if you utilize this tool properly!

                                       

So with the vision board you are capturing images that are going to motivate you to success.

1.     Gather magazines, photographs, pictures, letters, quotes and a Poster board, scotch tape, glue stick.

2.     Set at least an hour or two just for you!

3.     Put on some soothing, happy music and start.

                                 

4.     Meditate on what you see yourself doing, being having in the future, perhaps six months from now.

5.     Begin from the center. The heart of the vision board should reflect the spirit of the whole board.

6.     Choose images that evoke powerful emotions, let them all speak to you directly. Let the desire of your heart be splashed in that board. Giving it energy and oomph.

7.     Then lay out pictures, images, quotes wherever you are guided into placing them.

8.     Keep all images and quotes in the positive!

9.     Place this vision board where it is visible to you all the time. You can even take a snapshot of this and use it as a wall paper for your phone or your computer.

10. When you look at it, envision yourself already achieving this goal and bring up feelings that make you feel excited and creates a sense of urgency to achieve that goal by taking actual action steps.

Enjoy making your weight loss vision board!

Enjoy your day and I BELIEVE you are reaching your goal weight!

 With lots of love and support,

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My name is Adwiti Subba Haffner and I am a Certified Personal Transformation Coach. I teach women and anyone else (also via Skype sessions) to make that internal leap from where you are to where you want to be in the external world from achieving your most audacious dreams to finding profound success , fulfillment and inner peace. Check out my testimonials and invest in yourself and let us make that leap forward!!

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WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE DAY 11 - MINDFUL EATING

DAY 11 – Mindful eating..

When I did the Art of Living Course in Kathmandu, Nepal there was an exercise that we did that made me sit up, meditate and made me powerfully aware of the present.

We were all asked to sit cross legged, close our eyes, take deep breaths and simply become aware of the moment. Then one of the helpers placed a fruit in our hands, with our eyes close we were then instructed to put the fruit in our mouths. 

                                                        

There was a different set of instructions for “eating” the fruit, which by the way was a green grape.

1.     Roll the fruit around your mouth, without really biting it. Feel the texture, the quality of the fruit in the mouth.

2.     Then we were asked to eat the grape taking as much time as possible, enjoying the flavor, savoring the taste and the essence of eating.

3.     Then we thanked the fruit for the nourishment that it provided us with.

Just eating that one single grape was ceremonious! I enjoyed the experience so much that I wanted to incorporate that in my everyday meal (when I remember..today I did J).

                                             

Many of us take eating for granted. Food is such a necessity but we have learned to simply be on auto pilot with eating, this is called mindless, senseless eating. 

1.     Become attuned to the moment, your body and your intuitive hunger. Every time if you ask your divine self the choice between something healthy or something cholesterol laden food, you know what your divine self would pick right? So before you eat, ask your spirit if this is what your body needs at the moment. Chances are you will be guided.

2.     Respect your own inner wisdom even while cooking. When I asked my very spiritual and slim friend how she stays so slim, she simply said “ When I cook, I ask my inner intelligence to guide me with the preparation and she has never failed me!” Well, this friend of mind looks like she is in her twenties when she is really mid-forty!

3.     Connect with the food, for it is nourishes you, it enters your body and becomes a part of you that will support you, give you energy and vitality.

4.     Before eating, say a little prayer or send some appreciation to the Universe.

5.     When eating, become respectful of the food you are consuming. Take your time to eat. 

                                      

When we were little we were not really allowed to read, sing or play while eating. The elders used to say “ Unna dewta  ( God of Food/Universe/God) needs respect when you eat!””. Again this is now making a lot of sense. Most of us eat our food in front of the computer while working, watching TV, texting and perhaps facebooking....Mindful eating is about respecting that time and space and honoring your body and the food!  In fact mindful eating is fast becoming a movement in the spiritual world!

Here is to cooking and eating mindfully! Blessed be your food for today and always…

 Enjoy your day and I BELIEVE you are reaching your goal weight!

 With lots of love and support,

Feel free to share this blog with your friends, or tweet it or like it in Face book. That would help me a great deal..Thank you!

My name is Adwiti Subba Haffner and I am a Certified Personal Transformation Coach. I teach women and anyone else (also via Skype sessions) to make that internal leap from where you are to where you want to be in the external world from achieving your most audacious dreams to finding profound success , fulfillment and inner peace. Check out my testimonials and invest in yourself and let us make that leap forward!!

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www.empowerthemother.com

adwitiempowers@gmail.com

 251-609-1251

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WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE DAY 10 - 10 weight loss TIPS!

Good morning beautiful people,

Today just a few tips to stay on the game:

1.   Think slim….Thinking slim is one of the main strategies of weight loss. You know you already have that slim person within you, now imagine what that slimmer version of you is saying to you about your eating and exercising habits?  Jot it down in your journal and let the slim you be in charge in your mind!

2.   Experiment with your food. What works for me is eating lesser carbohydrates and more vegetables and fruits.

                       

3.   Celery is the ultimate weight loss snack. Pre-wash this vegetable and snack on it all you can, it is a diuretic and is a high fiber vegetable with very low calorie. Enjoy this snack.

                         

4.   Tune in to your, self talk..always be encouraging and supportive of yourself.

5.   Keep recording what you eat in your food journal.

6.   Cut out photographs of  a variety of vegetables and put it on the fridge. This will entice you into making healthy decisions.

                       

7.   Eat when you are hungry, that means know your body.

8.   Increase your vegetable intake and reduce your sugar intake.

9.   Always remember that being healthy and losing weight is a commitment , not a fad. Know that you are doing this for your health and all around wellness, so a lifestyle change is necessary!

                 

10.               Exercise. Exercise. Exercise.

Enjoy your day and I BELIEVE you are reaching your goal weight!

 With lots of love and support,

Feel free to share this blog with your friends, or tweet it or like it in Face book. That would help me a great deal..Thank you!

My name is Adwiti Subba Haffner and I am a Certified Personal Transformation Coach. I teach women and anyone else (also via Skype sessions) to make that internal leap from where you are to where you want to be in the external world from achieving your most audacious dreams to finding profound success , fulfillment and inner peace. Check out my testimonials and invest in yourself and let us make that leap forward!!

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WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE DAY 9 - EAT!

Hello my lovelies,

Sunday, the barbecue is being prepped, the party might be on, friends coming over and you might even feel disciplined about your goals today, determined to get your target weight.

At times like this thinking about your goals beforehand can help motivate you to pay attention to what you need to do in terms of exercise, food and visualization.

                                    

But something interesting happened to me the other day.

It was my daughter’s birthday and I was faced with pizza and cake. I usually avoid sweet things but as luck would have it, the cake she happens to like is the one that is absolutely irresistible to me, with the butter cream icing, that tastes like whipped cream and melts in your mouth delivering an astonishing amount of pleasure to the taste buds, even for a short time.

When I see a cake like that, I take a small piece and then sneak in  another small piece later and by the end of the day I would have eaten a fair share , no- more like the Lion’s share. Here is another misleading technique I use to trick myself, I eat it standing up with a fork , just taking small bites off the side, deceiving my brain to thinking that I am not really eating a whole slice so I 

should be okay! 

                              

Well, I have read a lot of articles on how you should give yourself that one day to simply indulge and eat anything you want, perhaps once a  week. I pondered over that and I decided to experiment.

After the decadent Cosmic Karma pizza packed with  pesto, feta cheese, spinach, tomatoes and olive oil and of course the whole white wheat dough…I ventured into the cake slice. This time I decided to take a good size chunk!

I decided to simply enjoy each and every bite of that delicious cake…I even scraped the edges of the plate….I pushed the platter away from me and my mind said “satisfied!”

                             

The real test would be later in the evening with the left over cake in the fridge.

Well... through out the evening the cake stared at my face, tempting me, taunting me...but.....YES!... not once did I feel like I needed another bite or another tiny slice!

The psychology behind that is,when you deprive yourself of something to a degree that is unhealthy, then the deprivation will haunt you and will re surface in damaging ways. When your subconscious mind feels denied, then the mind will try to compensate by countering the denial in a myriad ways. If deprived of cake the cravings will continue and you will eat equally fattening other things!


Feed your hunger in a reasonable way, listen to your body and keep your goal in mind.

So today, darlings…I invite you to have your cake and eat it too! Just make sure you do this JUST once in a great while though! J

Cheers…and enjoy your Sunday!

                           

With lots of love and support,

Feel free to share this blog with your friends, or tweet it or like it in Face book. That would help me a great deal..Thank you!

My name is Adwiti Subba Haffner and I am a Certified Personal Transformation Coach. I teach women and anyone else (also via Skype sessions) to make that internal leap from where you are to where you want to be in the external world from achieving your most audacious dreams to finding profound success , fulfillment and inner peace. Check out my testimonials and invest in yourself and let us make that leap forward!!

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www.empowerthemother.com

adwitiempowers@gmail.com

 251-609-1251

P.S. Follow my blog by clicking on "subscribe to be inspired" and also go to my website to get a free abundance e-course. Lots of good feedback on that one!