1.) Spend time daily in deep relaxation, at least an hour throughout the day...more if possible. This is a powerful way to balance and decrease the stress hormone cortisol. The more cortisol you have running through your body, the more your body will gain and hold onto weight like there's no tomorrow. 2.) Take longer pauses between your meals. You can do this by eliminating snacking throughout the day, or extending the time between dinner and breakfast. Doesn't have to be the same pause every day, it's actually great to vary it up, but more time pausing between meals will help you lose weight. Some people call this intermittent fasting. Don't matter what you call it. It works by decreasing insulin and countering insulin resistance. Insulin resistance can make weight loss almost impossible. Similar to cortisol...the more insulin you have running through your body, the more your body will gain weight and refuse to let it go. 3.) Start a Food and Mood Journal. Write down everything you eat, and how you felt while eating and afterwards. No judgment, just data. You can use dirty napkins to write it down, or a fancy journal. Don't matter, just write it. No need to analyze, or think about it after you write it. Simple, straightforward, just write it down. Anything we bring awareness to, we naturally and automatically start to change for the better. As long as we don't judge it and bring shame to this process. 4.) Eat more vegetables and low sugar fruits. If you are looking to let go of weight, strive for at least 50 percent of each meal being veg/fruit. The nutrients from these foods prevent cravings that come from malnourishment. The fiber helps you get full faster and keeps your digestion humming along nicely. These are some of the basic steps I took to let go of over 70 pounds in just a few months. I had an aunt that also let go of a lot of weight during the same time. She worked REALLY hard...exercising daily, for an hour or more, eating special foods. I respect her immensely. I felt guilty sometimes that I was doing less and having similar results. You're welcome to chime in here, in the comments, and share about your amazing transformation, if you'd like @Bev Elton :)

So why not take some time today, right NOW, to connect with JOY and GRATITuDE, and maybe even a dash of DEEP Peace?! Having goals and things to strive for is wonderful…it can give purpose, meaning, and direction to our lives. But, if we WAIT to reach our goals to experience joy, fulfillment, and peace, we may never get to those feelings. The goals we have may not be as fulfilling as we expected when we actually attain them, and… There will always be new goals around the corner to strive for. You can spend a lifetime WAITiNG to feel GOOD. And yet, joy and gratitude are available to us at every moment. We just need to slow down and allow ourselves to feel them. It’s important to create goals and work towards them. And it’s equally important to build our CAPACITY for feeling good along the way. Like anything, the more you practice feeling good, and taking time for joy and positive emotions, the better you get at it! If there is an inner, emotional block to feeling GOOD, there are tools that can help you move past the block… Tools like Tapping, Prayer/Meditation, the emotional tools created by Dr. Laurel Mellin, and many such tools ⚒️ What’s one way that you can slow down and give yourself the experience of JoY, or maybe even BLISS today?

And you can actually HARNESS those powers, for transformation AND joy! Learn how to do that and hear about some of my super powers in my talk from the last HEALTH X Summit... Note to self: I need to learn how not to fiddle with the microphone so much! Yet, I'm proud of myself for getting up on the stage, even if it wasn't a perfect presentation. Anyone here interested in doing more speaking?? Besides our obvious, amazing speaking coach @Ben Sherry ?? And maybe @Javaria Sajjad ?? I'd like to start an in person support group in the next few months for upleveling our speaking skills and applying to speaking events. If folks here are interested, we can make it in person/virtual...that would be fun!

I’m not talking leaving Mississippi to go to Florida! Food literally changes our internal reality and experience of life. That’s one of the reasons it’s so hard to let go of it as a coping mechanism. It’s an incredibly effective state changer. It can pick you up when you’re feeling tired. It can relax you if you’re feeling anxious and irritable. And to be frank, it’s totally fine to use food to change your state SOMETIMES. If you’re feeling hungry, having food can help you to feel satiated and nourished. That’s a change in state too! When you’re hungry is a great time to use food to change your state! The problem is when food is the ONLY state changer that we know, or the only one that works well. When food is the ONLY thing we know to turn to when things feel challenging, it’s easy to over do it, and we can actually hurt ourselves in the process. Feeling overly full is NOT a joyful state to be in. The good news is…there are MANY other state changers. The more we practice them, the more they become a viable option to turn to when we need to change our state. These are some of my favorite state changers… -Meditation/prayer -Walking in nature -Singing in any way, even if it’s super loud and off-key -Dancing in any way, even if it doesn’t look “beautiful” from the outside -Sleep -Taking a bath -Changing scenery…going somewhere different, experiencing something new -Connecting with a beloved person by talking or hugging -Listening to music -Any kind of exercise What are your favorite non-food state changers? How and when do you like to use them? Which one would you like to do more of in your day-to-day life?

what's something you sacrificed when you started your fat loss journey? and what did you intentionally gave up after achieve you desired results? so when i started my fat loss journey i sacrificed eating processed food with dozens of ingredients and chemicals..and i started drinking 2 glasses of warm water first thing after waking up.. warm water have great benefits..i personally drank it because i wanted good gut health but after achieving some good results and improving my gut health i intentionally gave up drinking warm water now i drink 500ml of normal water first thing in the morning