I have come to find out that my beliefs about food are not positive or healthy for my brain. Beliefs are things we were either taught, trained, or just have come up with them on our own that end up determining our outcome. My beliefs controlled my thoughts and emotions and they control my actions. This is pretty accurate for all areas of our life, but I look at it related to food. Growing up chubby, I have had many a years to establish these and walk them out. You would think that going on the Biggest Loser would have helped me, but unfortunately it made it worse. You see, what a lot of people don’t understand is that The Biggest Loser is a game show with a cash prize at the end. It has a start and end date and ultimately your goal on the show is to get skinny! Carbs are your enemy, and fruit is just as bad. As a matter affect, food in general was looked as the bad guy. How many of us have this thinking? I know I do. I have always thought that if I’m not 100% on my restrictive “diet”, I’m cheating therefore failing so I might as well forget the whole thing and binge. This all or nothing/black and white mentality has gotten me nowhere! In fact it has given me messed up thinking, left me feeling guilty and unsuccessful. This way of thinking will not lead me to be fit and healthy at all! So, why do we continue to think this way????? If the thought is not producing good, guess what, we can change it.  The first step is to recognize the wrong or negative thought. Think of how that makes you feel. Positive, or negative? Happy or sad? Confident or defeated? If it does not spark excitement, positiveness, joy, peace or confidence, replace it!. Choose a better thought to replace it with. Cancel out that negative thought with an empowering one. You see for me and my “food is the devil” thought, was not positive or empowering. I have since changed it to “food is fuel”. If I know its fuel, what I need to make it through my day strong and successful, I definitely don’t see it as the enemy. I can be free to eat to fuel my body. Make sense??? We all have our own negative thoughts and beliefs. Take a minute to evaluate it and change it! You will feel so much better

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