December 13, 2024 • 19 mins
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Are you ready to break free from self-doubt and emotional eating? In this episode, I dive deep into the surprising connection between inner dialogue and your relationship with food. Discover how negative self-talk can sabotage weight loss efforts and emotional well-being.
Explore the power of positive affirmations and Rapid Transformational Therapy to shift limiting beliefs and embrace a healthier, happier you. Hear a real-life story of a client who overcame self-doubt and transformed their life through the power of positive self-talk.
Learn three practical strategies to cultivate a positive mindset and boost your self-esteem:
- Catch and Counteract: Identify negative self-talk and replace it with empowering affirmations.
- Present Tense Power: Harness the magic of present-tense affirmations to manifest positive change.
- Create a Supportive Environment: Surround yourself with uplifting influences to fuel your journey.
Understanding how your thoughts impacts your eating is the key to sustainable weight loss and happiness in your life.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi and welcome to the Breakthrough Emotional Eating
Podcast.
My name is Kristen Jones andthank you so much for joining me
this week.
The topic today is definitelyone that I have seen very, very
prevalent in my work withclients, and it is something
that repeats itself over andover again, and I think what I'm
(00:28):
finding is that really needs tobe addressed.
Is not, it's important, thewords that you're saying to
yourself, but what's moreimportant is what you are
thinking about yourself and howthat manifests itself in how you
treat yourself and what yourthoughts are about yourself.
(00:50):
When you think you don'tdeserve something or you think
that you shouldn't be treated ina way that is positive and
worthy, most of the time it'sbecause you're thinking thoughts
about yourself that are notbuilding you up, and that
directly translates into yourbehavior towards yourself.
(01:11):
I find that self-sabotagingbehavior is the number one thing
that results in someone givingup on their weight loss goal, on
their emotional eating work,because they start to do things
and they don't understand whythey're doing them, and it's
(01:31):
because of some very, verydeeply established and deeply
rooted beliefs that they haveabout themselves.
So, on that note, before I getstarted with the topic of the
podcast.
That's my dog if you'rewatching on video.
One of the things that isincredibly valuable when it
(01:55):
comes to self-talk and comes tohow you talk about yourself and
the words that you say and thethings that you're thinking, is
the usage, and one of the thingsthat I've started doing with
people is using hypnosis to workon those beliefs that people
have about themselves and thewords that they say about
themselves and the negativetapes and the negative beliefs
(02:17):
that continue to replay in theirminds and people have such a
hard time getting rid of those,and hypnosis is one option of
doing that and I just want toshare that.
I have a client and I have aclient right now and I'm posting
about her a lot on on Instagramand on Facebook because she's
doing amazingly well.
But we just talked earliertoday and one of the things I
(02:40):
want to read this quote becauseI told her I was going to use
this quote.
I want to read this quotebecause I told her I was going
to use this quote.
One of the quotes that she saidto me was it feels like I'm a
different person, like I got abrain transplant, like I'm back
in weight loss mode.
I'm back in the zone, and if Ithink about eating something, my
(03:03):
thought is, eh, I'm really notinterested.
And if you are thinking gosh, Iwould really love to think
about food and think that I'mnot interested in eating.
That is because she's doingthis kind of work with her
thoughts, her beliefs and whatshe is saying to herself, and
she has worked on that with methrough hypnosis, and so it's
(03:26):
really I'm seeing firsthand, andI've seen firsthand in the past
, but this is just so quick andso rapid, which is what RTT
rapid transformational therapystands for.
It really is amazing to seethis in the process, as it's
happening, because things justcontinue to go better and better
(03:48):
and better for her as sheestablishes these new beliefs
and these new thoughts aboutherself.
And so today's topic is reallytalking about that, about how do
we deal with that.
And today's topic is going tobe dealing with not even using
hypnosis.
This is just our, our, oureveryday, everyday thoughts
about ourselves.
(04:08):
So there are oftentimes we'llmake the suggestion about, you
know, do doing affirmations.
You'll be told like, oh, doaffirmations, say affirmations.
And most of the time people arethinking well, why, why should
I say affirmations?
What, what is it actually doingfor me.
What is it actually?
How is it actually contributingand making things better for me
(04:30):
?
Well, the thing about your brainis that your brain only gets
its beliefs and its thoughtsabout you based upon what you
think about.
So your brain only knows andonly gets information from you.
It does get information fromoutside, but it mostly gets that
(04:55):
information based because whensomebody says something about
you, it turns to you and like,okay, what do you think about
that?
If somebody said somethingabout you and you went, oh,
that's so not true, your brainwouldn't believe it.
Your brain would not believewhat the person said.
It would believe you.
It believes you over everyone,anyone else.
So if you are saying things thatare negative, you are saying
(05:17):
things that are hurtful, you aresaying things that are just not
uplifting and not helpful toyou.
That is the only source ofinformation that your brain has
for believing what it wants tobelieve about you and for giving
you the thoughts and thefeelings that you have about
yourself.
And so we have to be incrediblycareful and vigilant about what
(05:43):
our thoughts are and what arethe thoughts and the things that
we're saying about ourselves.
Because if your brain's onlyoption for a source of
information is what you think.
I'm sure most of you are likeOoh, that's not good, because
I'm probably I'm I'm.
If I feel badly, it's becauseI'm saying all these bad things
about myself, and that isabsolutely true.
(06:03):
So we have to be really, reallycareful and really aware that
what we say is what our brainbelieves and what it creates
more of.
It creates more of those kindsof thoughts about our, about
ourselves of.
It creates more of those kindsof thoughts about ourselves.
Another thing is that your brainis so smart and it wants to
(06:25):
make you so happy that when yousay something about yourself and
you, for instance, you saysomething positive about
yourself you say, oh my gosh, Idid such a great job.
Your brain wants you tocontinue to be happy, and so
what it will do is it will findproof of things that you've done
(06:45):
that you're proud of, and itwill present all of these things
that will show you and justcontinue to help you feel more
and more proud of yourself.
The opposite is true as well,and most of us do the opposite.
Most of us are feeding ourbrain information that is not
kind, not nice, and it would besomething we would never say
(07:06):
about anyone else, but we willsay it about ourselves.
And one thing that's importantto remember is your brain.
You can't hide your thoughtsfrom your brain.
You have to be.
Your brain knows every thoughtthat you have, it knows every
belief that you have, and itwill absolutely believe it and
hold on to anything that you'vesaid.
(07:27):
So if you are speaking in anegative way about yourself, it
will absolutely hold on to that,even if you then correct and
you're like oh, I didn't meanthat it still hears those other
negative things that you've said.
So we have to be absolutely,absolutely, incredibly careful
about how we do that.
(07:53):
So what is the solution to andactually let me explain to you
how this, how this also relatesto self-sabotaging behavior,
whether it becomes down toreaching any kind of goal, but
especially, in particular, aweight loss goal and, you know,
trying to curb and control youremotional eating, excuse me.
So when you are thinkingnegative thoughts about yourself
(08:18):
, when you are thinking negativethoughts about yourself, you
are basically telling yourselfthat you are not important, and
a lot of times you are saying,well, you're not worthy, you're
not good enough, you're notdoing enough, you're all of
these things that are usuallyvery negative.
And so when push comes to shoveand you're in that situation
(08:40):
where you get to make a decisionabout do I eat this thing or do
I stay on my plan, do I go outfor a walk or do I sit on the
couch and eat a cookie, whenyou're given those situations,
if the thought that comes toyour head is, well, you always
just eat the cookie.
So you know that's what you'regoing to do.
If that's the thought that youhave, that's absolutely what
(09:02):
you're going to do.
So you have to remember thatthose negative thoughts build up
, build up, build up, build upand then they make you feel, and
your brain believes, thatyou're not worthy and that
you're not worthy of taking careof and that you will do the
wrong thing.
Because if you're thinking thatyou're going to do the wrong
thing, you're probably going to,because that's all your brain
(09:23):
has to go by.
That's the only option it'sbeen given.
So those negative thoughts andthe negative self-talk is only
going to be right there,bubbling on the surface.
When there's any sort ofpossibility of self-sabotaging
behavior, it is going to come upand it's going to push you in
(09:45):
the direction of doing whateverthat behavior is that is going
to move you further and furtheraway from your goals and give
you more thoughts of I'm notworthy, I'm not important, I
can't do this, I always fail atthis, all those things.
So the more you can saypositive things about yourself,
(10:06):
about who you are as a person,the more you can do that and the
more you can really control andcatch the negative self-talk,
the better off you'll be, thebetter off you'll be in
achieving any goal at all.
So there are three things,three things that you could do
and that you could start doingtoday.
(10:27):
Three things that you can startdoing today that are going to
make a huge difference in howyou feel and how you move in
your weight loss journey, butalso how you feel in general.
And again, how you feel willtranslate into how you act
Because, remember, thoughtscreate feelings.
Feelings drive every actionthat we do.
(10:48):
So if we have bad thoughts,that creates a bad feeling, the
bad feelings then drive thenegative behaviors that we do,
and so we have to be careful.
We have to always be aware andgo back to what am I thinking?
I've got to be careful of thosethoughts.
So three things that you can dotoday, right after this.
You listen to this podcast.
Three things that you can dotoday.
First one is being very awareand vigilant about catching
(11:12):
yourself when you are sayingnegative things about yourself,
or saying negative things ingeneral, but specifically about
yourself.
And how do you do that?
You notice that you're doing it.
You tell your brain.
You have a conversation withyour brain, say nope, we don't
do that anymore.
I don't talk badly about myselfanymore.
(11:33):
This is stopping now and youhave to just kind of interrupt
that stopping.
Then you come back with arebuttal, the reason why you
should stop it.
You stop it because it's nottrue.
You're not that kind of person.
You aren't, whatever you saidyou are.
You've got to come back with arebuttal, tell your brain no,
and then replace it with abetter, more positive thought
(11:55):
about you.
You always want to end on thatpositive, and what does that end
up looking like?
Well, it ends up looking likeyou create an affirmation.
You create something positivethat comes out of it, and then
that's something that you canuse every day Again.
The second thing is affirmations, positive affirmations that you
create.
Now, what exactly is a positiveaffirmation?
(12:17):
Well, positive affirmation iseither something that you are
aspiring to do and be and feelor it's a belief about.
I prefer beliefs aboutourselves that we know for sure,
that we absolutely know forsure, and I don't think anyone
could say that they're not agood person, that they're not
(12:38):
loved, that they don't careabout people, that you, just you
always want to say somethingabout yourself that you know in
your heart is true.
And so saying something likeI'm a good person, that's it.
It's as simple as that.
I'm a good person.
It's present tense, it'shappening right now and I'm a
good person really allows you tofeel very positively about
(13:00):
yourself.
Allows you to feel verypositively about yourself.
It has to be stated in thepresent, as if it's already in
existence, and you absolutelyneed to believe.
When you say a positiveaffirmation, you need to believe
that that statement is true orit's becoming true.
And it's important to say themregularly, very regularly, 10,
(13:24):
15 times a day, trying to remindyourself.
Anytime there's a downtime andyour brain starts wandering off
and it starts doing thatnegative self-talk, you come
back with your positiveaffirmations.
And the third thing that we canall start doing and all be much
better at is being veryselective with who we surround
(13:45):
ourselves with, that surroundingourselves with people who are
uplifting, who are positive, whoare supportive, who believe in
you and who are going to liftyou up and not tear you down.
Too often people surroundthemselves with people that they
know are toxic, but they're tooafraid, they're too scared,
they're too insecure, they'reworried about what the other
(14:07):
person's going to think, and allthe while, they are dying
inside.
So we have to be better aboutselecting and being very careful
about who we spend time with,because we all absorb other
people's energy and we need tomake sure that we are being
extra, extra careful about theenergy that we're letting into
our bodies, that we're lettinginto our environments and that,
(14:30):
then, that helps us build moreof that positivity and the
positive energy that we want tobe surrounding ourselves with.
That allows us to then be ableto continue with that positive
self-talk and really start toeliminate the negative things
that we're saying aboutourselves, because, again, we
want those positives to alwaysbe the thing that our brain
(14:52):
hears, because, again, our braindoesn't learn, but it learns
from us, who we are and how wefeel about ourselves, and then
our brain agrees with it.
So know that you absolutelywant to start being very, very
selective and very careful aboutthe thoughts you have and the
people that you surroundyourself with, because those are
(15:15):
the biggest influences on howyou feel about yourself and your
ability to be able to reach anykind of goal, and in our case
it's an emotional eating or aweight loss goal.
So today I want you to reallyreally think about interrupting
negative self-talk, catching it,rebuttaling it, coming back
(15:35):
with a rebuttal, telling yourbrain no, and then coming back
with a reason why because you'renot that person and then come
back with another positiveaffirmation that you can then
use, as you do your positiveaffirmations on a daily basis
and then create affirmations,say them 10, 15 times a day.
(15:55):
You can record your own voicesaying them, you can listen to
it, you can write them, you canspeak them, whatever it is, but
you want to have that tapecontinually playing.
And then the third thing be veryselective about who you
surround yourselves with.
You want to surround yourselfwith uplifting, positive and
encouraging people to not onlyallow you to be able to play off
(16:15):
of them, but for you to be ableto have a positive impact on
their lives as well, but alwayslooking at how do I protect
myself from negativity and howdo I make sure that I am moving
in a positive direction, sayingthe things that are good, that
my brain wants to hear, that Iwant my brain to then focus on.
We don't want focusing on thenegative.
(16:36):
We want it focusing on thepositives and the things that we
want to achieve in our lives.
I hope this quick little podcasthas been helpful and I hope
that today you go and you startcatching yourself with that
negative self-talk and you startto come back with a rebuttal
statement of no, I don't saythat anymore, because I'm not
that kind of person and you arevery selective about who you
(17:00):
spend time with and that youstart doing those affirmations
on a daily basis 10, 15, 20times, as many times as you can
say.
It reinforce positive anduplifting and encouraging
messages that you know you wantyour brain to hear and that you
want to have more of in yourlife.
That's what we need to do andthat will translate into you
taking better care of yourself,feeding yourself in a better way
(17:23):
, as well as not sabotagingyourself on your weight loss
journey.
All right, have an amazing restof your week and I will see you
next week.
Take care.
Hi and welcome to the Breakthrough Emotional Eating
Podcast.
My name is Kristen Jones andthank you so much for joining me
this week.
The topic today is definitelyone that I have seen very, very
prevalent in my work withclients, and it is something
that repeats itself over andover again, and I think what I'm
(00:28):
finding is that really needs tobe addressed.
Is not, it's important, thewords that you're saying to
yourself, but what's moreimportant is what you are
thinking about yourself and howthat manifests itself in how you
treat yourself and what yourthoughts are about yourself.
(00:50):
When you think you don'tdeserve something or you think
that you shouldn't be treated ina way that is positive and
worthy, most of the time it'sbecause you're thinking thoughts
about yourself that are notbuilding you up, and that
directly translates into yourbehavior towards yourself.
(01:11):
I find that self-sabotagingbehavior is the number one thing
that results in someone givingup on their weight loss goal, on
their emotional eating work,because they start to do things
and they don't understand whythey're doing them, and it's
(01:31):
because of some very, verydeeply established and deeply
rooted beliefs that they haveabout themselves.
So, on that note, before I getstarted with the topic of the
podcast.
That's my dog if you'rewatching on video.
One of the things that isincredibly valuable when it
(01:55):
comes to self-talk and comes tohow you talk about yourself and
the words that you say and thethings that you're thinking, is
the usage, and one of the thingsthat I've started doing with
people is using hypnosis to workon those beliefs that people
have about themselves and thewords that they say about
themselves and the negativetapes and the negative beliefs
(02:17):
that continue to replay in theirminds and people have such a
hard time getting rid of those,and hypnosis is one option of
doing that and I just want toshare that.
I have a client and I have aclient right now and I'm posting
about her a lot on on Instagramand on Facebook because she's
doing amazingly well.
But we just talked earliertoday and one of the things I
(02:40):
want to read this quote becauseI told her I was going to use
this quote.
I want to read this quotebecause I told her I was going
to use this quote.
One of the quotes that she saidto me was it feels like I'm a
different person, like I got abrain transplant, like I'm back
in weight loss mode.
I'm back in the zone, and if Ithink about eating something, my
(03:03):
thought is, eh, I'm really notinterested.
And if you are thinking gosh, Iwould really love to think
about food and think that I'mnot interested in eating.
That is because she's doingthis kind of work with her
thoughts, her beliefs and whatshe is saying to herself, and
she has worked on that with methrough hypnosis, and so it's
(03:26):
really I'm seeing firsthand, andI've seen firsthand in the past
, but this is just so quick andso rapid, which is what RTT
rapid transformational therapystands for.
It really is amazing to seethis in the process, as it's
happening, because things justcontinue to go better and better
(03:48):
and better for her as sheestablishes these new beliefs
and these new thoughts aboutherself.
And so today's topic is reallytalking about that, about how do
we deal with that.
And today's topic is going tobe dealing with not even using
hypnosis.
This is just our, our, oureveryday, everyday thoughts
about ourselves.
(04:08):
So there are oftentimes we'llmake the suggestion about, you
know, do doing affirmations.
You'll be told like, oh, doaffirmations, say affirmations.
And most of the time people arethinking well, why, why should
I say affirmations?
What, what is it actually doingfor me.
What is it actually?
How is it actually contributingand making things better for me
(04:30):
?
Well, the thing about your brainis that your brain only gets
its beliefs and its thoughtsabout you based upon what you
think about.
So your brain only knows andonly gets information from you.
It does get information fromoutside, but it mostly gets that
(04:55):
information based because whensomebody says something about
you, it turns to you and like,okay, what do you think about
that?
If somebody said somethingabout you and you went, oh,
that's so not true, your brainwouldn't believe it.
Your brain would not believewhat the person said.
It would believe you.
It believes you over everyone,anyone else.
So if you are saying things thatare negative, you are saying
(05:17):
things that are hurtful, you aresaying things that are just not
uplifting and not helpful toyou.
That is the only source ofinformation that your brain has
for believing what it wants tobelieve about you and for giving
you the thoughts and thefeelings that you have about
yourself.
And so we have to be incrediblycareful and vigilant about what
(05:43):
our thoughts are and what arethe thoughts and the things that
we're saying about ourselves.
Because if your brain's onlyoption for a source of
information is what you think.
I'm sure most of you are likeOoh, that's not good, because
I'm probably I'm I'm.
If I feel badly, it's becauseI'm saying all these bad things
about myself, and that isabsolutely true.
(06:03):
So we have to be really, reallycareful and really aware that
what we say is what our brainbelieves and what it creates
more of.
It creates more of those kindsof thoughts about our, about
ourselves of.
It creates more of those kindsof thoughts about ourselves.
Another thing is that your brainis so smart and it wants to
(06:25):
make you so happy that when yousay something about yourself and
you, for instance, you saysomething positive about
yourself you say, oh my gosh, Idid such a great job.
Your brain wants you tocontinue to be happy, and so
what it will do is it will findproof of things that you've done
(06:45):
that you're proud of, and itwill present all of these things
that will show you and justcontinue to help you feel more
and more proud of yourself.
The opposite is true as well,and most of us do the opposite.
Most of us are feeding ourbrain information that is not
kind, not nice, and it would besomething we would never say
(07:06):
about anyone else, but we willsay it about ourselves.
And one thing that's importantto remember is your brain.
You can't hide your thoughtsfrom your brain.
You have to be.
Your brain knows every thoughtthat you have, it knows every
belief that you have, and itwill absolutely believe it and
hold on to anything that you'vesaid.
(07:27):
So if you are speaking in anegative way about yourself, it
will absolutely hold on to that,even if you then correct and
you're like oh, I didn't meanthat it still hears those other
negative things that you've said.
So we have to be absolutely,absolutely, incredibly careful
about how we do that.
(07:53):
So what is the solution to andactually let me explain to you
how this, how this also relatesto self-sabotaging behavior,
whether it becomes down toreaching any kind of goal, but
especially, in particular, aweight loss goal and, you know,
trying to curb and control youremotional eating, excuse me.
So when you are thinkingnegative thoughts about yourself
(08:18):
, when you are thinking negativethoughts about yourself, you
are basically telling yourselfthat you are not important, and
a lot of times you are saying,well, you're not worthy, you're
not good enough, you're notdoing enough, you're all of
these things that are usuallyvery negative.
And so when push comes to shoveand you're in that situation
(08:40):
where you get to make a decisionabout do I eat this thing or do
I stay on my plan, do I go outfor a walk or do I sit on the
couch and eat a cookie, whenyou're given those situations,
if the thought that comes toyour head is, well, you always
just eat the cookie.
So you know that's what you'regoing to do.
If that's the thought that youhave, that's absolutely what
(09:02):
you're going to do.
So you have to remember thatthose negative thoughts build up
, build up, build up, build upand then they make you feel, and
your brain believes, thatyou're not worthy and that
you're not worthy of taking careof and that you will do the
wrong thing.
Because if you're thinking thatyou're going to do the wrong
thing, you're probably going to,because that's all your brain
(09:23):
has to go by.
That's the only option it'sbeen given.
So those negative thoughts andthe negative self-talk is only
going to be right there,bubbling on the surface.
When there's any sort ofpossibility of self-sabotaging
behavior, it is going to come upand it's going to push you in
(09:45):
the direction of doing whateverthat behavior is that is going
to move you further and furtheraway from your goals and give
you more thoughts of I'm notworthy, I'm not important, I
can't do this, I always fail atthis, all those things.
So the more you can saypositive things about yourself,
(10:06):
about who you are as a person,the more you can do that and the
more you can really control andcatch the negative self-talk,
the better off you'll be, thebetter off you'll be in
achieving any goal at all.
So there are three things,three things that you could do
and that you could start doingtoday.
(10:27):
Three things that you can startdoing today that are going to
make a huge difference in howyou feel and how you move in
your weight loss journey, butalso how you feel in general.
And again, how you feel willtranslate into how you act
Because, remember, thoughtscreate feelings.
Feelings drive every actionthat we do.
(10:48):
So if we have bad thoughts,that creates a bad feeling, the
bad feelings then drive thenegative behaviors that we do,
and so we have to be careful.
We have to always be aware andgo back to what am I thinking?
I've got to be careful of thosethoughts.
So three things that you can dotoday, right after this.
You listen to this podcast.
Three things that you can dotoday.
First one is being very awareand vigilant about catching
(11:12):
yourself when you are sayingnegative things about yourself,
or saying negative things ingeneral, but specifically about
yourself.
And how do you do that?
You notice that you're doing it.
You tell your brain.
You have a conversation withyour brain, say nope, we don't
do that anymore.
I don't talk badly about myselfanymore.
(11:33):
This is stopping now and youhave to just kind of interrupt
that stopping.
Then you come back with arebuttal, the reason why you
should stop it.
You stop it because it's nottrue.
You're not that kind of person.
You aren't, whatever you saidyou are.
You've got to come back with arebuttal, tell your brain no,
and then replace it with abetter, more positive thought
(11:55):
about you.
You always want to end on thatpositive, and what does that end
up looking like?
Well, it ends up looking likeyou create an affirmation.
You create something positivethat comes out of it, and then
that's something that you canuse every day Again.
The second thing is affirmations, positive affirmations that you
create.
Now, what exactly is a positiveaffirmation?
(12:17):
Well, positive affirmation iseither something that you are
aspiring to do and be and feelor it's a belief about.
I prefer beliefs aboutourselves that we know for sure,
that we absolutely know forsure, and I don't think anyone
could say that they're not agood person, that they're not
(12:38):
loved, that they don't careabout people, that you, just you
always want to say somethingabout yourself that you know in
your heart is true.
And so saying something likeI'm a good person, that's it.
It's as simple as that.
I'm a good person.
It's present tense, it'shappening right now and I'm a
good person really allows you tofeel very positively about
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yourself.
Allows you to feel verypositively about yourself.
It has to be stated in thepresent, as if it's already in
existence, and you absolutelyneed to believe.
When you say a positiveaffirmation, you need to believe
that that statement is true orit's becoming true.
And it's important to say themregularly, very regularly, 10,
(13:24):
15 times a day, trying to remindyourself.
Anytime there's a downtime andyour brain starts wandering off
and it starts doing thatnegative self-talk, you come
back with your positiveaffirmations.
And the third thing that we canall start doing and all be much
better at is being veryselective with who we surround
(13:45):
ourselves with, that surroundingourselves with people who are
uplifting, who are positive, whoare supportive, who believe in
you and who are going to liftyou up and not tear you down.
Too often people surroundthemselves with people that they
know are toxic, but they're tooafraid, they're too scared,
they're too insecure, they'reworried about what the other
(14:07):
person's going to think, and allthe while, they are dying
inside.
So we have to be better aboutselecting and being very careful
about who we spend time with,because we all absorb other
people's energy and we need tomake sure that we are being
extra, extra careful about theenergy that we're letting into
our bodies, that we're lettinginto our environments and that,
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then, that helps us build moreof that positivity and the
positive energy that we want tobe surrounding ourselves with.
That allows us to then be ableto continue with that positive
self-talk and really start toeliminate the negative things
that we're saying aboutourselves, because, again, we
want those positives to alwaysbe the thing that our brain
(14:52):
hears, because, again, our braindoesn't learn, but it learns
from us, who we are and how wefeel about ourselves, and then
our brain agrees with it.
So know that you absolutelywant to start being very, very
selective and very careful aboutthe thoughts you have and the
people that you surroundyourself with, because those are
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the biggest influences on howyou feel about yourself and your
ability to be able to reach anykind of goal, and in our case
it's an emotional eating or aweight loss goal.
So today I want you to reallyreally think about interrupting
negative self-talk, catching it,rebuttaling it, coming back
(15:35):
with a rebuttal, telling yourbrain no, and then coming back
with a reason why because you'renot that person and then come
back with another positiveaffirmation that you can then
use, as you do your positiveaffirmations on a daily basis
and then create affirmations,say them 10, 15 times a day.
(15:55):
You can record your own voicesaying them, you can listen to
it, you can write them, you canspeak them, whatever it is, but
you want to have that tapecontinually playing.
And then the third thing be veryselective about who you
surround yourselves with.
You want to surround yourselfwith uplifting, positive and
encouraging people to not onlyallow you to be able to play off
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of them, but for you to be ableto have a positive impact on
their lives as well, but alwayslooking at how do I protect
myself from negativity and howdo I make sure that I am moving
in a positive direction, sayingthe things that are good, that
my brain wants to hear, that Iwant my brain to then focus on.
We don't want focusing on thenegative.
(16:36):
We want it focusing on thepositives and the things that we
want to achieve in our lives.
I hope this quick little podcasthas been helpful and I hope
that today you go and you startcatching yourself with that
negative self-talk and you startto come back with a rebuttal
statement of no, I don't saythat anymore, because I'm not
that kind of person and you arevery selective about who you
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spend time with and that youstart doing those affirmations
on a daily basis 10, 15, 20times, as many times as you can
say.
It reinforce positive anduplifting and encouraging
messages that you know you wantyour brain to hear and that you
want to have more of in yourlife.
That's what we need to do andthat will translate into you
taking better care of yourself,feeding yourself in a better way
(17:23):
, as well as not sabotagingyourself on your weight loss
journey.
All right, have an amazing restof your week and I will see you
next week.
Take care.
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