January 4, 2010

Fortitude, Attitude, Imagination, Truth and now Help.

Does that word “Help” scare you?  Asking for help is considered a weakness, perhaps?  Giving help is ok, but receiving help assaults our pride?

The definitions:  to give assistance or support to ; to make more pleasant or bearable : improve, relieve : rescue, save : to be of use to : benefit : to further the advancement of : promote: to change for the better

Do any of these definitions sound like they should be assaulting your pride or self confidence?  Your doctor’s office is there to offer help at all times – some are better at it than others, but that is why you must also develop a solid and supportive group of people around you that have the same goals in mind that you do so that when you need help you have someone to turn too!  Sometimes that even includes a therapist.  Unfortunately, excessive weight covers a lot of emotions that rarely come to the surface until there is no physical weight there to hold them down and we need professional help to lead us through a place where we have never tread before.

Have you tread in the place of being admired by the opposite sex?  Does it scare you, make you ashamed?  You must look at the truth (as we spoke about last week) to find out why?  Otherwise, you will cover up again with weight.  Have you always over achieved because that was the only way others would notice you…. How about just “achieving” now?  There are many things that shedding weight will bring to the surface just like old trash that was buried and has worked it’s way up to the surface – but it can be dealt with if you ask for help and look for the truth.

You can do it!  You made the decision to lose weight and you wanted to know how to be an absolute success…… Just have F-A-I-T-H….. the process will work if you give it, and yourself, time! 

Enjoy your new you and have FAITH!!

Tammy