Why You Need Self-Compassion to Lose Weight

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can’t hate yourself thin. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To the contrary, if you want to succeed at losing weight and keeping it off, you must start with a positive body image and be compassionate towards yourself. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you’re thinking, “how can I feel positively about this body? If I felt positively about it, I wouldn’t want to lose weight.”  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You</span> <strong>can</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">accept your body and feel positively about it, and still want to improve it. </span></p> <p><strong>Truth:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">losing weight doesn’t mean you’ll have a good body image.  That’s because having a good body image is more about how you think than what you look like. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are things about your body that you can’t control, no matter what you weigh. </span></p> <p><strong>But the one thing you CAN control is how you think about it. </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Given a choice between changing your body and changing your body image, I encourage you to choose the latter to start with. Because once you change how you feel about your body, losing weight will actually be easier. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have the power to change your body image and be compassionate with yourself now!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to learn what self-compassion is, how to cultivate it, and how to accept and appreciate the body you have RIGHT NOW. Because without it, you won’t achieve permanent weight loss or happiness. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We work on cultivating self-compassion in the Weight Loss for Foodies group coaching program. Learn more <a href= "https://sharibroder.com/wlff-sign-up/">here</a></span></p>