Exploring my limiting beliefs

[Guest guest]

I answered the 5 Questions in one of the earlier episodes designed to uncover

your limiting beliefs (Is this is a worthwhile goal? Do you believe it's

possible for others? Is it possible for you? Is what it takes to reach this goal

appropriate and reasonable? Do you deserve it?)

My goal is:

To enjoy eating moderately and 90% healthily to maintain a slim body of 63 to

65kg.

Originally I had " To eat moderately " but added " To enjoy " when the first

question showed me I wasn't excited about eating moderately! Oops!

Some limiting beliefs I uncovered, and my arguments against them! Let me know if

any of these ring true for you too, or if you have any more counter-arguments!

I need to use food for fun

• I am in the habit of using food for fun, but there have been plenty of times

when I'm " on " the eating plan or diet that it has been so easy to say No I don't

want that.

• I feel fantastic after I do exercise, or I've decluttered or cleaned something

around the house. I can do these things instead.

• It also feels fun to get on with life and just eat what I've planned to eat,

and see the scale numbers come down.

I am inherently gluttonous

• There is a part of me that can happily do without food that I don't need.

• I usually eat a very ordinary breakfast – spinach and eggs

• I almost always bring my own lunch and cook dinner at home instead of going

out to buy something more decadent

• My preference is to eat moderate meals and snacks, it's only when I'm using

food in a binge that I overeat.

• My bingeing behaviour is not who I am as a person

Anytime I lose a few kilos and am looking slimmer, I'll lose the motivation to

continue

• When I've lost some weight in the past, I still had squishy bits that I wanted

to trim down/tone up further

• Once I get used to a new lower weight, I'll still be motivated because I won't

want to go back to where I was by putting on weight again

There's something wrong with me because I binge eat and can't get to the weight

I want

• This actually makes me a normal woman in the western world!

• I am out of the ordinary by being in a healthy weight range! (NB My goal

weight is still well within my healthy range)

There's something wrong with me because I'm never really happy

• Most people are not 100% satisfied with their lives

• In general I am happy

• Don't take yourself so seriously and enjoy what right now has to offer!

And because I'm not always moving towards the various goals I set for myself

• I have expectations of myself that are too high

• Life is for living and if I am constant seeking a future goal, I won't be

enjoying what the present has to offer

• I have it within my capability to bring more attention to moving towards my

goals

Figuring out how to change myself to be happy eating moderately is hard, and so

is doing the steps to get there (whatever they turn out to be)

• It's easy to just keep trying something to get there

• If I believe it's hard instead of taking action, nothing will happen