Straight Talk on Weight Loss - The Fitness Asylum

Do you sometimes feel like you just need a little jolt to get going on your weight loss journey? Well, you’re not alone. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get really honest about what it takes to achieve lasting weight loss results. It’s not just about the generic advice you hear from coaches or fitness professionals. It’s about digging deeper and uncovering what truly holds you back.

Going Beyond Surface Level Approaches

It’s time to go beyond surface level approaches to weight loss. Simply tracking macros or focusing solely on workouts is not enough. True, sustainable results come from understanding your hunger cues, emotions, and triggers. It’s about being willing to dig deeper and address the underlying factors that influence your relationship with food and exercise.

Fixing Your Relationship with Food and Yourself

It’s essential to recognize that you can’t fix your relationship with food until you fix your relationship with yourself. Let go of judgments, food rules, and negative self-talk. Embrace a healthier and more conscious approach to food that is rooted in self-awareness and self-compassion.

Thoughts Are Habits

Recognize that your thoughts can become habitual, influencing your behaviors and outcomes. Challenge negative thought patterns and replace them with empowering and positive ones. By doing so, you can reshape your mindset and approach to weight loss.

The Hard Work Behind Visible Results

Perceptions of others’ fitness levels can often be misleading. Understand that achieving a toned and fit physique requires tremendous dedication and effort. Realize that most individuals who appear fit have put in significant work to attain their physical appearance.

Setting Bigger Goals

Don’t settle for small, inconsequential goals. Aim for bigger, audacious goals that inspire and challenge you. What is it that you truly want to achieve with your body and fitness level? Dream big, set impactful targets, and work towards creating meaningful changes in your life.

A New Perspective

Let’s approach weight loss with a newfound perspective. It’s about going beyond the surface and embracing a holistic approach that acknowledges the deeper aspects of our relationship with food, exercise, and ourselves. Remember, you are capable of achieving remarkable changes when you set your sights on bigger, more compelling goals. Embrace the journey, and let’s make lasting, transformative progress together.

ABOUT THE HOST

Bonnie Lefrak is a Life & Body Transformation Expert and Founder of Self Made, a program designed to help you tackle the physical aspects of health and weight loss as well as the beliefs and thoughts that drive our habits and behaviors. It is her goal to help women create certainty in their own lives, their own results, and their own abilities.

Weight loss is not about the one “right” diet – it is about MUCH more than that. Weight loss is not about the one “right” workout. Weight loss is not about being positive and putting a big smile on.

Weight loss is about FEELINGS. All of them. Not trying to bury them or hide from them but knowing and allowing the full human experience. Weight loss is not about grinding hustling and will powering your way to some end line. Transformation (when done well) is done from the inside out.

By addressing both the physical and mental aspects of dieting and weight loss, she has coached thousands of women ages 30-55+ from all over and helped them ditch the mindsets that are holding them back, achieve permanent weight loss, and get the bangin’ body of their dreams.

Bonnie is an expert at Demystifying weight loss. She helps you u****k your diet brain. She is on a mission to help women love themselves, to find PEACE in the process of losing weight, taking care of themselves, and leveraging the power they do have to become who and want they want right now.

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