Probiotics:

The most important tool you have when it comes to changing behavior is your thinking.

Your thoughts create your feelings (all those feelings you are trying to avoid)

Your habitual thoughts create your urges and your over desires.

Your feelings and urges cause you to overeat.

Tomorrow is the day we start our food protocol. Are you all prepped and ready to go?

journaling prompt: write down every single thought that you are having. How are you going to accomplish your goal? What is it going to take from you every single day? What does it mean for you to accomplish your goal? What does your future you feel like when they feel amazing in their skin, and in their clothes? What fun things are they doing?

Leaky Gut

This is foundational to cleaning up our body and allowing it to even let weight move out of your body.

If you haven't been able to move the needle, even with healthy eating and exercise - this is likely to change your life.

There are sooo many reasons why this is important. It's hard only to your mind that wants to make it hard. We can do this.

If you have any questions about elimination diet- here is a pdf put together by the institution for functional medicine: https://bit.ly/3rRi0Rh

Journaling Prompts:

"If you want your results to be different, you need to change your thinking.

If you want your weight to be different you need to change your thinking. "

How can you make this fun?

Are you willing to embrace not being "normal" in order to not be overweight? Why or why not?

How do you imagine you can fulfill this commitment to yourself?

A note about confusion:

one of the ways we avoid failure is by being confused. We say we're confused because we don't understand how to do something. We say,"I don't know." This is a sneaky method of avoidance. We're actually just afraid of not meeting expectations, and this is fear of holding us back. So be careful. If you notice yourself not taking action, and you're telling yourself the reason you're not doing it is that you're undecided, you don't know, or you're confused, just know that that is the easiest way to fail ahead of time. So try to understand your motivations for inaction. Pay attention. Have a look at that because when you avoid failure, you're going to avoid success. Being confused, saying "I don't know," and being undecided is just a way of hiding. Be real about it.

Instead think thoughts like "I'm figuring out how to do this," "I'm going to find out how to do this," or "I'm learning the steps to understand this"

Journaling Prompt:

What comes up for you when you read this?

How much do you REALLY want to reach your goal?

What is the reason you want to lose weight?

Do you believe this reason is compelling enough to keep you from EVER overeating?

Are you willing to give up food as you know it to have the freedom from overeating and being overweight?

Are you willing to live without the escape and buffering that food provides?