Be the first thin person in your family Get your weight loss cheat sheet: bit.ly/cravingsheet Do you want to be the first thin person in your family? About a year ago I had a client come to work with me and she said the weight she lost made her the first thin person in her family. SHe said she was breaking the cycle of obesity in her family. And i truly believe there is a familial cycle of obesity that happens in our families. So if you are overweight, eating in a way that you don’t love and you don’t want to pass those habits down to your kids, here are my 3 tips. 1. Stop listening to all the “diet” “eat this” information, instead start listening to your body's natural signal for when and what to fuel. This might include not listening to your relatives advice about how to eat, breaking your preconceived notions about what losing weight, living in a thin body or eating less actually means. What you want it to mean for you. It might also mean that you need to get to the bottom of someone from your past critisizing you and your weight and deciding how you want to think about that Your body knows better than any guru out there, and it trust me it doesn’t want to be overweight. You might have this idea that your body is working against you to be overweight, this is not true and thinking that does not help you to lose weight at all. Your body wants to lose weight, too. And it has a built in system for doing so. You have to get back to listening to it 2. Change your mindset! Whatever you are thinking about all day long right now is driving you to eat, it’s driving you to eat junk and its driving you to be checked out from your body. Your mindset should effortlessly lead you to eating that causes you to lose weight. You probably think you need to take a different set of actions, like stop eating carbs and start going to the gym every day…but the actions are only part of the picture. You take action from your mindset, so the key is to actually change your mindset and then your actions will change naturally Pretty much all of my clients are action focussed, so when they say this is what I need to do to lose weight this week I ask them and what do you need to be thinking in order to take those actions effortlessly 3. Practice! It’s how your brain learns, it’s how you will lose weight and keep it off. This is not talked about in the diet space…but think about how you learned to play a sport or play a new instrument: you tried and failed and you listened to your coach tell you what worked and what didn’t work and what do differently next time. You don’t know how to weigh 50lbs less than you do right now, you have to learn how to be that weight. What types of food do you eat? How much? How many indulgence do you have each week? Why do you eat those indulgences? This is the process of learning something new and it’s wha you need to apply to lose weight and keep it off