What’s the missing ingredient in almost every weight-loss plan?
(This article by Theresa Stevens, reproduced with permission.)
There is one essential, missing ingredient in almost every weight-loss plan out there. This missing ingredient is not the latest, greatest workout routine. This missing ingredient is not a specific diet.
This missing ingredient has to do with how you feel about yourself, right now, in your body and in your life.
The biggest problem with the idea of “losing weight” in general is that you start doing workouts and diets because you don’t like how your body is right now. You want to look different. You want to feel better.
And if you start from a place of not liking your body and how your body is right now–any actions that you take are not going to give you long-lasting results. If you tell yourself, I can only be happy in the future, when I look and feel a certain way–you are creating an uphill battle with yourself that you just can’t win.
You can lose weight this way, but it’s a struggle and you’ll just gain the weight right back when you want to stop suffering.
But if you love your body and enjoy the workout, you’re much more likely to keep it up. That makes sense, right? And as you love your body, your body naturally will become the body you love.
You can’t get to it any other way, it has to come from loving and appreciating yourself exactly as you are, right now.
Most people are afraid that if they accept and appreciate their body as it is right now, that their body will never change. But the truth is, until you can come to a place of loving and appreciating yourself exactly as you are right now, it’s like having your foot on the gas pedal and the brake at the same time. Very painful.
The thing is, you CAN reach all of your health, weight, attractiveness, and beauty goals–and the very first step is learning how to make peace with yourself exactly as you are right now.
And I have found that dancing in the mirror is one of the fastest and funnest ways to make peace with your body exactly as it is right now.
Essentially, you need to feel hot in the body you already have, to have a hot body!
Dancing–and tapping into your natural sensual pleasure, beauty, and grace–is such a delicious way to appreciate all of your goddess curves, just as they are.
When you are able to find things to love and appreciate about your body exactly as it is right now, you create a strong and grounded launching pad for all of your weight-loss, health, beauty, and life goals.
Dancing and enjoying your body has powerful results! To learn Theresa’s Top 3 Secrets of how Pleasure and Happiness can help you have the body and beauty of your dreams, visit her website.