Why Can't I lose Weight?

“Why can’t I lose weight?” has been the number one question searched on the internet. Yet the right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer.

This question is designed to keep you in the diet culture trap.

This question fuels the multi-billion-dollar diet industry that sells you pills, injections, diet supplements, meals and more with a shiny over-the-top promise to getting you skinny. While you may lose some weight it's designed to keep you trapped on the yo-yo diet rollercoaster. Because once you stop doing what the diet culture sells you, you gain the weight back and usually more.

When you ask the "why can't I lose weight" question its tone isn't usually out of curiosity and kindness towards self. It’s more than likely stated in frustration after your jeans don’t fit or you just saw the number on the scale.

This question is loaded with shame and judgement which will have you try almost anything to lose weight.

I’ll say it again, the right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer.

Today, you get to start to thinking differently about yourself, your body and how you approach losing weight.

Here's the right question to be asking, “Who am I?” 

If you keep searching for external gimmicks and fixes you lose sight of who you are. You look to the outside world to “fix” you when what you really need is true connection to self. And when you connect to self, you connect to your body and change begins to happen.

The question, “who am I?” is not based on what you do for work or external life choices. It’s discovering and knowing your true identity. You are worthy, loved, whole, kind, compassionate, hopeful, playful, brilliant, funny and the list goes on and on.

Have you ever paid attention to how you internally talk to yourself? Are you kind to yourself or do you call yourself stupid, fat, dumb, depressed? When you choose to become conscious of your thoughts and how you talk to yourself you get to decide to change those thoughts.

You can’t hate yourself to health.

Imagine raising a child and always telling them they’re stupid and dumb and will never amount to anything when they grow up. That child will believe that and all of those words will become their identity. And sadly, in the work I do, I know many people who have had parents tell them this and it became their identity, until they changed it.

If you have accepted this as your truth then it's time to change it! 

Your thoughts and words create pathways in your brain that become your truths. And when you become aware of those thoughts and words you get to choose to believe them or not.

Try this today:

1. Pay attention to your internal thoughts and external words about yourself
2. Tell yourself you are going to start to think differently about yourself
3. Be curious and kind to yourself

Try these statements:

1. I’ll be curious what will happen when I no longer hate myself.
2. I am not _____, (dumb/idiot) I am aware and curious.
3. I will no longer look at myself in disgust. I will be kind to myself.

These shifts are just the beginning to answering the number one question searched on the internet. Now you are changing the question instead of staying trapped in the cycle of external expectations.

When you do this you get to discover who you truly are and everything changes!

Let me know what starts to change in your thoughts and life as you begin to think differently about your health! 

Love Extravagantly,

Polly Hamp

If you want to go further in learning who you are check out TDAH! (Think Differently About Health) and get started on your journey of lasting health! TDAHYOU.com