Good Day Ladies.

I found this and thought that I would be terribly remiss if I did not share it with ALL of my freinds. So, here goes:

One of my favorite authors and metaphysical teachers is Louise L. Hay. If you’ve been a reader of The Fit Shack for a while now, you will remember that they’ve written about her and her teachings before (to date, 12 articles). If you aren’t familiar with Louise Hay, one of the basic principles she teaches is that love heals; no matter what problem you might have in life (financial, health, relationships, home, etc.), it can be solved by loving the self more. And, if you’ve read ANY of my posts, you will know that I am a definate firm believer of this.

I believe this, and since you can solve any problem in your life by loving yourself more, we are going to apply this principle to the problem of overweight and weight loss. How can the level of self-love you have affect your overeating and overweight? I’m sure that you know how easy it is to suggest to your loved ones to take steps to care for their health, to eat better and to lose weight in order to avoid further health complications. However, do you take your own advice, or do you treat your best friend better than you treat yourself? Ladies, please, make your best friend, yourself. Sometimes it may turn out to be your only friend. Sometimes the only one you can count on and with. The only friend that will be as patient as possible with you and who really knows what you go through and why. That best friend is the one who knows how much you can take and when you will end the cycle of taking it, whatever it may be and through whomever you may be going through it with or because of.

If you were your own best friend, you would treat yourself with care and love. Therefore, the more love you have for yourself, the better you will treat yourself. The more love you have for yourself, the less you will need to force yourself to change, to eat better and exercise. The more you love yourself, the more you will be naturally motivated to care for your body.

I am speaking of sincerely loving your self more; not vanity, or the presentation you give to others in an effort to cover up your lack of self-love, but honestly loving and accepting yourself exactly as you are in this very moment.

What I’ll be doing over the next 31 days is posting a daily exercise for you to do. These exercises are to help you love yourself more to make it easier for you to naturally want to lose weight and get fit. Many of the posts will be on the shorter side, so for the most part, I will still write a “regular” Fit Shack (on behalf of) post for those readers who don’t want to do the Loving Yourself Thin exercises that I’ve found to be otherwise extremely helpful. Of course, I do suggest that each of you do them, because diet and exercise just isn’t enough for the majority of people to effect lasting, lifelong change. If it were, why are there so many people who are repeat dieters?

I encourage you to just do the exercise, no matter how simple it might seem to you. Additionally, I ask that you feel free to respond to the posts as you see fit. Respond each day with comment, question or concern if you fancy. After all, these 31 days will be a start for you in loving yourself more, but it is an ongoing, lifelong process, one that will give you many positive rewards in return. Even though there are only 28 days in this month, I will still go for 31 and you will have a couple of days into March also.

Going beyond the 31 days, I would also suggest Louise L. Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life (this is the “gift edition”, it has the most beautiful illustrations), as well as the workbook, Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook.

Please ladies, take time to “love self“, because when you really think about it, it’s really all we have.

Bless and keep you, and see you soon…..