For the past week I’ve been in quite a funk, a funk of negative thinking! I’ve learned that it’s actually rather easy to get into thinking negatively (if I allow myself to), unless I continually feed my mind with the positive every single day.
I had to take action today and get an overflow of positive mental nutrition flowing into my brain again! 😉 I pulled out my Anthony Robbins’ Personal Power series
If you’re familiar with Anthony Robbins you know his story and how very successful and motivating he is. He obviously doesn’t have a problem with emotional eating and overeating anymore, and he solved this problem by taking action and deciding to make a change in how he lived his life. Now if you’re an emotional eater that could mean making a decision to heal the underlying reasons you have been overeating, since when you do so, you’ll then solve your overeating. Possibly, it could even be as simple as deciding to stop turning to food to solve your problems, although I think that you would need to replace that behavior with positive problem-solving action.
I find it very inspiring to hear about how other people have overcome their self-sabotaging behaviors. The fact that Anthony Robbins actually used to eat because of his emotions and problems is very inspiring to me because he is such a positive, successful, motivating individual. He overcame his self-sabotaging behavior, took positive action, and role-modeled someone else who had gotten the results he wanted (lost weight and kept it off long term). Tony lost the weight and kept it off by mentally changing his thoughts about the foods he was addicted to so that he no longer even wanted them.
Today I just want to share with you that I’m inspired to hear that Tony Robbins used to have a problem with his weight, was emotionally eating, and addicted to certain foods. I had completely forgotten about this and it wasn’t even the reason that I wanted to listen to his series again. I’ll share more with you later because I’ll be implementing Anthony Robbins’ techniques of consistent action in conjunction with what I’m already doing with the Six Week Body Makeover.
Oh my goodness! I have those CDs too, and the book. You’ve inspired me to go listen again. I saw Tony Robbins live once, and he is pretty darn motivating.
Hi Stephanie, that’s great! I’ve been continuing on with the series since writing this post and Tony keeps talking about the topic of weight loss and its association with either pain or pleasure….I’ll have to write more about this the further along I get with the course.
It is funny how I had completely forgotten that he ever had any issues with food, I do think it’s quite inspiring. 😉