Weight Loss: Are You a Human Garbage Can? by Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP

What to Do with the Leftovers?

Okay, tell me if you've ever done this: It's Monday late

afternoon. You decided yesterday that starting today you were

going to 1) eat right, and 2) start to get regular exercise, and

3) give up all your bad habits. So, you're picking things up

around the house and starting to notice all the little bits and

pieces of leftovers from the past weekend. Namely, cookies here,

and small bits of candy there. In my house today I noticed I had

three large shortbread cookies (I'm overly fond of shortbread

cookies with icing), several bags of the candy that resemble real

rocks which I keep saying I want to put in a jar, but I haven't

found just the right jar (for display, you know), and the

leftovers from the latest summer picnic, which in my case is

about five pounds of fruit salad - not bad in itself, but I can

only eat so much fruit salad.

And Then There's the Wine

Of course, I had to buy some wine at a tasting on Saturday (I

always buy it, don't know why I think those wine tasting's are

such a great deal - they always entice me to buy), and now

there's an open bottle waiting.

So, my thoughts are, "Do I eat this, or not?" "Do I throw it away

and WASTE it?" "Oh, my, dear no. That's not a good idea," I

think. Oh, I just remembered there is also an entire plate of

large cinnamon rolls (Cinnabon style) I made Friday night.

They'll be stale soon. That's not good. It'd be such a shame to

throw them all away, and I only ate one.

And so it goes. Do I talk myself into eating up the last remnants

of the weekend, thus going into Tuesday and possibly Wednesday

with the taste of weekend indulgence still on my lips, or do I

decide, really decide, I've had enough? It's time to eat better,

like I just said, last night. Remember last night? It seems so

long ago now ...

What if We Just Start Tomorrow?

It's interesting how easily we talk ourselves right out of what

we had decided yesterday was such a good idea. So what's wrong

with just starting tomorrow? What's wrong is that tomorrow never

comes. It's always today, right now. You'll never reach that

elusive tomorrow. Yes, the date on the calendar changes, but you,

standing where you are, right here, right now, are still here, in

the present. You can't live in the past, nor can you live in the

future. You can only live in the moment.

Decide Right Now: What Do you Want?

So if you want to decide, then decide right now. What do you

want, really want for yourself? Do you want to continue to

indulge yourself at every turn, or do you want to exercise just a

bit more discipline and see if you can get into better shape?

It's not about what you'll miss out on, it's about what you will

gain. Better health, more energy, endurance. You'll feel better,

you'll look better. It's all about what you'll gain, but in the

immediate moment, it's so easy to think only of right now. Yes,

but right now this would taste so good, wouldn't it, and there's

always tomorrow.

I've found that when I make a mental shift, a real shift, not

just a decision but a true change in my thinking, then I follow

through, and not until then. All the times I try to talk myself

into doing things that I don't really want to do, are not

successful. Probably they're not successful because I don't

really want to do them.

How do you get yourself motivated and stay that way? I start with

a list. List all the reasons you want to lose some weight. Think

in terms of a mini goal of five or 10 pounds. Make it a one month

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BIO:

Kathryn Martyn, Master NLP Practitioner, author of the free
e-book: Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight
Loss, and owner of http://www.OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com

Get The Daily Bites: Inspirational Mini Lessons Using EFT and
NLP for Ending the Struggle with Weight Loss.
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