Last Updated on July 28, 2019
If you’re frustrated seeking weight loss success and over your fight with fat, you have to master overcoming stress and overcoming self-sabotage if you want to feel sassy on the scale.
Icky feelings caused by stress like frustration, anger, anxiety, uncertainty… trigger us to want to tap out and reach for things to change our feelings. When you start managing your stress and starting to take care of yourself – you can end emotional eating, stop self-sabotage and finally experience weight loss success.
How to Overcome Stress
aka How to Prevent Self-Sabotage and Experience Weight Loss Success
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Instead of doing things to help us cope with the stuff life throws at us we hit – sometimes smash – the easy button and reach food sweets, snacks, salt, booze, and choose to prop our feet up versus strapping on sneakers. We want instant gratification so we don’t have to feel overworked, overwhelmed, over-it! and who can blame us?!
The top 2 instant gratification feel-goodies we reach for are food and alcohol.
Our favorite go-to’s are really effective at improving our mood… but they have side effects that reproduce icky feelings: fat, hangovers, and headaches. Don’t get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying a drink or two on a bad day isn’t a problem. Sometimes it’s a necessity…
The problem is ignoring what you know is truly good for your body, mind and spirit – like eating crap when you feel like crap or drinking too much because you want to numb the pain always causes feelings of guilt, shame, remorse. Like we’re failures… Because deep down we know better. Over time, when we said we were going on a diet but we end up going back for seconds… When promising ourselves we aren’t going to drink this week… but here we are at the bar… When our go-to self-soothers become our lifestyle suddenly our pants feel tighter than we know we should. When we step on the scale and see that number is up… We. Feel. Icky again. DAMN.
Icky Feelings – Easy Button – Habits – Weight Gain – Repeat
Reaching for cookies, cocktails, or both when you’re emotionally compromised is like putting a dirty band-aid on a bullet hole. Emotional eating, excess fat, hangovers, and headaches don’t make us feel good for long.
But nobody ever gave us the tools we need to self-soothe with self-care so we do what we know works… that’s easy and accessible.
I spent the better part of my life struggling with my weight. I’ve spent the past few years of my life dedicated to helping others reach their weight loss goals… and I found everyone who struggles with the number on the scale also that struggles with coping with emotions in a happy healthy way.
When triggered to say F It! A little Voice creeps in singing sweet nothings of ‘skip the gym, eat it, you deserve it, you’re too tired, too busy, there are better things to do with your time…
When the icky feelings come I challenge you to take care yourself. Show yourself some Love with the Top 3 Stress Relief Self Soothing tips. They have been scientifically proven to instantly change your mood from nasty to no problem.
Instead of letting the little Voice inside trick you into the spiral of stress instead adopt these 3 easy breezy tips you can do anywhere, any time you feel like you’re turning 50 shades of Cray.
Put them in your Happy Healthy toolbox and use them. Because they only work when you work them.
3 Tips to Overcome Stress ASAP
1) Take a walk
Take 10 minutes and get moving. You can think clearly when blood starts flowing. You get serene ‘me time’ that allows you to step away from stress. Literally. Take a walk break at work, home, morning, noon, night… whenever you need to clear your head or feel over it.
2) Take Deep Breaths
Inhale for 4 counts – hold for 8 counts and exhale for 12 counts. Breathing this way triggers the brain to release some feel-good oxytocin. The hormone that caused you to feel love and that’s massed produced and released in the blood stream when you have an orgasm. Ever hear that sex releases stress? It does… but only because sex… especially good sex, releases oxytocin. You can experience the same peaceful bliss instantly with your breath… where ever you are, without clothes on…. in your car, office, kitchen, family vacation, and with your kids/significant other.
3) Tap Out
When you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. When you’re overwhelmed and overworked. When you feel like a volcano that’s about to blow up. Stop… Walk away. Find something else to do that brings you joy and peace. Take a bath, read a magazine, get a massage, jam to your favorite songs, or kill two birds with one stone and take a walk…
I was batty this week from work overwhelm. 90+ hours a week isn’t cute anymore. Wanting to help everyone – all at once like a superhero – was preventing me from taking care of myself. I used the tools. I would walk, and breath but sometimes you need all 3 at once. I had to let some things responsibility go in addition to breaking up with the things causing me stress, namely the false beliefs that I need do/control everything, that I have to get it all done… or else… while making sure everyone else is happy. I used all 3 of the tools over the course of 4 days until everything calmed down.
What’s going on with you? What stress do you feel? How are you dealing with it and how are your current habits truly affecting your life? Are they helping or truly hurting you? What tool(s) are you going to use the next time you feel in the weeds?
I challenge you to make a decision to Break up with Stress for good. When it creeps back in your life use your tools to kick it to the curb and do something for you. Practice makes perfect and trust me life will always give you a chance to practice. Just know when those feelings come back like an ex-trying creep back into your life… you always have an opportunity to do what’s best for you. Choose wisely.
If works if you work it. So work it! You’re worth it!
Your Coach and Biggest Cheerleader
xxoo
Such great advice. Article has me written all over it. Start of third days of cleanse and already down 4 lbs. Feeling spunky now, but I know life will come around and do its thing. Will try my best to be ready for it. Thanks!!
Thank you Roseanne 🙂