I help women lose 15lbs NATURALLY, balance hormones and gain confidence in their changing body's w/out starving! To stay up to date on all things Hormones and Metabolism, drop your email below.
💫Breaking through self sabotage and bad habits...💫
Building healthy habits are important to maintaining any healthy lifestyle and achieving your goals.
But let’s talk about the opposite : How to break a bad habit, whether it’s a self sabotage or running from calories.
Research is clear that you can do this. Start with these powerful steps…
1. ✔Know your triggers. Traffic? Mother-in-law? TV news? Self sabotage? Afraid of calories?
2. ✔Plan an alternative action when they strike. In my 12 week program we talk about the 3 P's.; plan, prepare and pivot! Gum instead of a cigarette… Meditation instead of drinking…Walking instead of screaming and fighting…
3. ✔Tell a friend what you’re doing. We all need encouragement. It also shows our brain that we're taking it serious.
4. ✔Get further support from a expert, therapist or 12-step group if necessary. We all need help. Period.
5. ✔Vividly imagine how you’ll feel if you continue this bad habit. Play the tape of the last million times you did it… you know how this story goes!
6. ✔Celebrate your good habits – and even pick up a new one to draw your focus. Stack the new one onto a positive daily step you already take so that you associate them together without even thinking.
7. ✔Reward yourself. Did you go, say, a week without biting your nails? Take yourself out for a healthy smoothie or those cute shoes!
Look, I get it.
Life is stressful, and we use little tricks to help us deal with stress or to bring us a moment’s pleasure, to build us up when other people (or our own self sabotaging) is knocking us down.
It’s only natural – so don’t make it worse by beating yourself up!
😁Instead, take positive action now. Joining a healthy community or studio, is super-helpful. And you don’t have to wait until you triumph over your bad habits to start exercising, eating right, and enjoying positive friendships.
I believe we can create new habits that then give us added power and inspiration over those persistent negative behaviors, too. Fight the negative with the positive. It works every time!
And if you need support I am right here.
Monique Salazar
Female Hormone, Metabolism and Weight Loss Expert
I help women lose 15lbs NATURALLY, balance hormones and gain confidence in their changing body's w/out starving! To stay up to date on all things Hormones and Metabolism, drop your email below.
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