Huge topic here.  TRUST.  In my role as on-air life coach for NBC-15 here in Madison, I spoke about trust this morning.

I’m interviewing potential students for the enLIGHTen Your Life! course, my mastermind permanent weight loss course, and I’ve heard several people make statements like “I’m afraid to try weight loss again.  I can’t trust that I will lose weight and keep it off.”

When I ask them to explain, they mention trusting a diet, or a “plan.”

I like to gently point out that is not even a point of trust.

To lose weight and keep weight off, we only need to trust OURSELVES.

You have never failed at a diet.

I repeat:  You have never failed at a diet.

Diets always fail and always will.  If you’ve let the weight loss/regain process erode your trust, there’s a bigger issue here to address.  If you’ve forgotten how to do that, come join the course!

Learning to trust is part of the process of re-educating ourselves for long-term success.  Non-diet weight loss is so much easier than the alternative and leads to permanent weight loss because we create a new lifestyle and the kind of deeper change that has positive effect on behavior.

Why Trusting Ourselves is Important

1. It’s up to us.  We are responsible.
2. Trust is essential to the process of developing natural eating and activity patterns based on your own, unique body cues.
3. Attitude is the most important aspect of weight loss.  This requires “rewiring” the circuits in the brain.  It can be done and it helps establish or re-establish trust.
4. To lose weight permanently, we have to learn to cut through subconscious emotions that sabotage progress; trust is vital to this process.
5. Trust, once present, goes EVERYWHERE.  You don’t just suddenly leave it at home one day and abandon your deepest wishes.  It’s part of you, portable, accessible, and, therefore, powerful.

Think back to the times when you trusted yourself and really stepped into life.

Trusting may have felt a little wobbly at first.  It’s a leap.

But the leaps in life are important – that’s where we get to show up and put it all on the line.  That’s exciting and it’s memorable.