You tell yourself that you cant make changes in your eating and exercise habits? You cant stick to eating better-for-you foods. You cant exercise every day. You cant add enough fresh fruits and vegetables to your diet. You cant eat more green-leafy, vegetable salads. You cant give up coffee. You cant give up pop. You cant give up you junk food. You cant change your eating habits while you are cooking for your husband and children. You cant give up chocolate. You cant give up desserts and sweets. You cant give up cheese and pizza. You cant give up chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy. You cant stick to an exercise program. You wonder why you cant lose weight quickly or not at all, and if you do lose weight, you cant keep it off. In fact, the instant you go off the latest, most popular diet, the weight comes back and with a vengeance. Look at the word C.A.N.T. a little differently. Cant could stand for Couldve And Never Tried. Throughout our lives, most of us have told ourselves hundreds of times that we cant do something. I cant dress myself.
I cant tie my shoes.
I cant go to school by myself.
I cant ride a two wheeler.
I cant read those words.
I cant understand that number problem.
I cant make the team.
I cant make an A.
I cant find new friends.
I cant get the job.
I cant get into the college.
I cant cook.
I cant buy a home.
I cant make this relationship work.
I cant understand this child.
I cant get everything done.
I cant handle this stress. But how often in your lifetime did those cants magically transform into cans? Surely, almost every time. And why did this happen? Just because you TRIED; you tried often enough and hard enough until the t dropped off the word cant. Whether you are aware of it or not, you have proven to yourself thousands of times over your lifetime that you in fact canif you try often enough and hard enough. So when you start that familiar cry that you cant exercise for one hour, or you cant lose weight, or you cant change your eating habits, or you cant live without certain, favorite foods like meat, cheese, chocolate, sweets, junk foods, or refined bread, or you cant adopt an eating plan that is loaded with life-supporting and life-saving fruits and vegetables, perhaps, just perhaps, you Couldve And Never Tried hard enough and long enough. Seek out the truth. Discover which foods feed you and which foods deplete you. Fill up on those foods that feed your bodywhole, fresh fruits and vegetables, raw, unsalted nuts, and whole grains and beans. These foods are nutrient-dense but calorie light, which translates into health and permanent weight loss. If you fill up on the good foods first, you naturally gravitate away from those foods, loaded with fat, cholesterol, chemicals, and calories, which compromise your body and your healthmeat, dairy products, white sugar and white flour products, junk foods, salty foods, fast foods, and processed, manmade, and refined foods. These are also the foods that happen to make you fat. Now is the perfect time to take the steps that will magically transform that I cant into I can, I will, and I am! I CAN fill up on the healthy foods to lose weight and gain health and fitness. I WILL exercise every daystarting today. I AM down two sizes and am feeling great for the first time in years about myself and my body. Go for it! Your body, your health, and your very life depend upon I can, I will, and I am! |
