I have a confession to make today. Over the last month, we’ve had a lot of stress in our lives. My husband and I decided to pack up house, move everything into storage and come overseas to the States to stay with my family for a little while. To say the least it was an incredibly crazy, chaotic, stressful month. All while having the holiday and still doing coaching and our business.  So, I let some bad old habits to slip back into my life and I really want to come on here and confess to you guys because we are all human.

A lot of times I coach my clients and they feel really bad about “slip-ups” and get all guilty and then drop off the band wagon, altogether. They stop losing weight, they get into bad habits again. They think, “Oh god it’s all over”! Well…  It’s not!

It’s been 4 weeks that I’ve been eating way too much chocolate again. In the past that’s been my way of dealing with stress.   I also basically stopped exercising for a few weeks because we just didn’t have time. It was chaotic and we have the holidays so we just wanted to chill out. Now, it’s about a month later. I know what I’ve done and I’ve taken the steps that I needed to take to get back onto my own band wagon. One of the reasons you haven’t heard from me in the last month is because I live in integrity. To me it’s really important that if I’m going to teach you guys stuff and coach, that I’m doing whatever I tell you as well. The videos kind of stopped last month because I think unconsciously, I just couldn’t really pass the word on when I wasn’t fully living what I was preaching.

Here I am, back on the bandwagon, doing all I can do hit my next goal.  I actually hit my last goal and dropped down to size 10 after gaining the weight from my pregnancy. Now, the goal is by the 7th of April to be down to US Size 6. Here goes guys, I’m back at it.

I’m back at the gym. I haven’t stop eating chocolate completely. I have definitely had it a few times in the last few weeks but there are days that I  haven’ t had any. I’m getting back on track again. It takes an effort and I’m back on the band wagon.  After the holidays and with new year’s resolution, if you had any slip ups, any  “ooopses”, you hop back on your bandwagon as well and let’s hit our goals.

By the way overseas, we’ve moved to the Palm Springs, California area, for the time being. It’s been a lot of fun being gypsies, hanging out. We are at all sorts of different people’s houses and meeting really amazing new people. So we’ve got some fun stuff happening and that means you guys are gonna learn some really great new things this year.  Stay tuned for some regular posts coming up about some not so talked about topics!  Trust me… you won’t want to miss these, so subscribe to find out when we post next.

Wow… what a powerful day!  Over the weekend, I went to a workshop for the company I work with, Chris Howard Training.  We do this workshop in multiple cities around the world every year.  It’s called Breakthrough to Success.  It’s a 3 day workshop that is designed to help you make massive leaps forward in your life.

I only had a chance to stop in for about an hour today and while I was there we were going through a process that is designed to help you look at decisions that you made in the past and get different learnings from them so that you can move forward feeling empowered rather than letting that decision hold you back.  It’s an incredibly powerful process to help you overcome your “stuff”.

In any case, I decided that while I was there, I would get rid of the decision that “I don’t want to give up chocolate”.  It only takes a few minutes to do this.  I had made brownies for my friends running the event and they were in my lap.  When I finished with the process, looking at them, I felt nauseous.  Pretty powerful stuff!

I will see how this process goes long term, but so far, so good.  I’m not wanting to eat chocolate yet.  And for a chocoholic, that is surely a breakthrough!

(BTW… If you can relate to this and want someone to help you out by doing the same type of work to easily overcome eating chocolate (or your other food “addictions”) please feel free to email me at keri@evolveyourhealth.com.  I’d love to help you, no matter where you are in the world!)

All of this brings me to a point for you…

No matter what area of your life you are working on improving, you absolutely must look at your own limitations first.  It’s all about developing yourself personally.  Don’t look outside yourself for the answers because they are all within you.  Getting guidance from someone to help you uncover them is a great idea, but ultimately, the person who knows what’s best for you, is you!

If you want to move forward in your life, you must do some sort of personal development.  It can be through reading books, going to seminars, listening to webinars or teleseminars, taking classes, getting a coach, having mastermind groups… There are plenty of options out there ranging in price from free to thousands of dollars.

If you want a great place to start, please feel free to check out Breakthrough to Success in a city near you by signing up here… http://tinyurl.com/yhewkwg If you use this link, you will be able to go to a 3 day workshop, valued at $895 for free.  Trust me when I say… it’s worth every moment to be there!

We all have those days that just stink.  Whether it’s just our state of mind or a few things that just don’t go right in the day, we just don’t feel good.

You wake up in the morning and get out of bed, feeling a bit cranky from not getting a restful night sleep.  Then you go to have your breakfast and realize there are no eggs left.  Yikes… It’s time to head off to work and you just miss your bus.  I hate that, when you see it pulling away as you walk up and they won’t wait for you, even though they see you running!  You get to work late and then your boss wants to have a chat.  Uh oh!

And the day just goes on from there.  What do you do for yourself when you see this bad day start to unfold?  Do you turn to food to comfort yourself?  Does it EVER make you feel any better? Maybe the immediate gratification of the tasty chocolate in your mouth seems to put a smile on your face, but does it really?  When you have finished ravishing through the chocolate and secretly thrown away the wrapper, because you can’t believe it’s 9am and you have just devoured a kingsize chocolate bar, how do you feel?

Does the day go better or do you actually have a feeling of guilt for actually turning to food, which only makes you beat yourself up more?  Most of the people I speak to, take the guilty path.  I have done something “naughty” so I will feel guilty and punish myself the rest of the day, which usually leads to eating more “bad” foods.  It’s a vicious cycle really, isn’t it?  I know… I’ve been there and did it for many years.

Ultimately, what you do with yourself, the way your day unravels and the decisions you make… are all up to you.  When your day starts to go down the drain, you can choose to let it continue that way, or you can do something about it.

For me the best way to do something about it is to stop.  I recognize my mood and choose to change it.  Go outside and take some time to breathe.  Get up from your desk and walk around.  Wherever you are, just stop what you are doing and re-focus.  Start to think of good things.  Put a smile on your face.  Laugh (even if it’s a fake one)! If you know about using resource anchors, then use an anchor to change your mood.  (If you don’t then, let’s set up a time to teach you.)

Sometimes the eating happens so quickly that you don’t even realize you’ve done it until it’s too late… The crumbs are already scattered!  If you still have moments where this happens, do yourself a favor… don’t beat yourself up about it.  Just recognize what you did an do what you have to do to create a better mood or state of mind.  Then move on.  Make sense?  Just because you did that doesn’t mean you are a bad person… just means you ate some food, maybe lots of it. 

At the end of the day, you are in control of the way you feel and eating won’t change that!  So, choose to feel better without relying on food and you will truly feel better.  Plus, you will be really proud of yourself for not turning to food.  This is truly just a decision that can be easily made.  Bring it on!