I just looked in my storage room (see pic below) and realized that since I haven’t decided to fix it, my storage room looks even worse than it did a year ago. Yes, I have kids who throw things in there and I’m very busy, but the truth is that it just wasn’t a priority. So the room is a dump!  The strange thing was, I didn’t even realize how much of a mess it was until I went looking for something. And that’s how it goes when we’re not focused on solving a problem – it just doesn’t get better!

So it is with living with extra weight. Until we focus on solving the problem, it just doesn’t get better. But it can be fixed. So let’s look closely at what the problem is so we can get it solved!

 

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

We’re gonna keep going on counting the costs of NOT losing weight. We’ve already looked at the time and money you’re losing when you don’t solve your weight problem. This week, we’re going to talk about space. It’s really not as woo-woo as it sounds, I promise! Are you still with me? Let’s go!

 

 

When you have a desire you really want to see happen, that desire takes up space. It shows up in lots of ways! Let’s look at how your wanting to be in a smaller-sized body takes up space.  It’s not your body. Even if you want your physical body to take up less room, that’s a fraction of the space that your desire fills. Let me show you.

First, NOT losing the weight takes up physical space. It shows up in exercise equipment that you don’t use, or tools or contraptions you’ve bought to shape, sweat, or melt off the fat (remember the plastic pants to wear to the gym?). When you yo-yo up and down the scale and don’t create permanent weight loss, your closet is full of different-sized clothes to accommodate whichever sized body you are in. You keep the skinny clothes, hoping you’ll get the weight off at some point, or keep the bigger clothes just in case.

You also have an array of pills, powders, shakes, supplements, and possibly foods from the expensive programs you’ve bought to lose weight. You don’t want to throw them out because they were expensive, even though they didn’t work and they taste like grass. Girl, all that stuff is taking up space in your house!

 

 

What about your mental space? All the mind drama about what to eat or not eat, when to eat, should I snack or should I fast, what can I cook for the family that I can also eat? There’s also the time you spend fussing at yourself for not following the plan you just started. Then you have all kinds of space in your mind devoted to what you don’t like about being overweight – you don’t like how your jeans fit, or how your arms look, or that you have that roll around your middle. You don’t like your knee/hip/back pain or how much your feet hurt at the end of the day. You don’t like feeling older than you are or not being able to keep up with the kids. That’s a LOT of space in your brain thinking about what you don’t like!

 

Let’s talk about emotional space. When you spend a lot of your time and energy on what you don’t like, you create lots of emotions, mostly unpleasant. You feel disappointed, discouraged, and frustrated. You’re feeling worried and hopeless and overwhelmed because weight seems like the one major unsolvable problem in your life. That’s a lot of emotional space being taken up with negative emotions around weight.

Have you ever gone to a really nice place on vacation and felt calm and zen when you walked in the door because of how beautiful and peaceful the space was? It was more than the decor – it was the lack of clutter!

Now imagine that all the physical, mental, and emotional clutter around weight was gone out of your life. If it were gone, how might you feel? What might you be able to create? If you conquer your weight problem, what else might you be able to do?

 

 

If you’re ready to tackle your weight problem for good and you want help, I’m here! If you are committed but don’t know what to do to get your mind in gear, I’ve got you. Do you need guidance, plans, or accountability? Done.

I only have space for 2 more clients right now, so if you want one of them email me at drandreachristianparks@gmail.com and let’s schedule your free session. You don’t have to figure it all out on your own!

 

Here’s your video help for the week!