I have gained and lost well over 200 lbs as I have gone through growing and giving birth to 6 babies…each time trying to get down to “pre-baby weight.” I have come to learn that there is a time when you should NOT try to lose weight and there is a time when you can if you want to.
I shed a couple tears and decided to go all in on Dani. I decided that I was going to encourage her to live her full self without the burden of my words telling her I wish she were different.
198lbs that is what the scale said. I was 24, my first baby was only a couple months old and I was as out of shape as I had ever been.
My first thought was to call her in and have her fix the broken frame again, except this time I would show her how to do it better. But then I stopped myself in that thought and decided to leave it as-is, as a reminder.
Earlier this year I realized I would be 40-years old this August. I thought if I was going to have another child I would need to do it pretty soon. The question arose from my mind…Should I have another child?
Brains are hardwired to seek safety in groups by feeling accepted. This causes behavior that many times may not serve us. Such as worrying about what others think about us. Check out the video to better understand how this plays out in your life and what to do about it.
Your brain equates control with stability for survival. Brains strive for a feeling of control by trying to create rituals and behaviors that lead to feeling in control even when in reality we don’t have the power to control what we are striving to control.
Today I kinda sucked it up in a lot of ways. I was overwhelmed by thinking that it was all too much, just too many things that “needed my limited” attention. Sound familiar?
Your brain believes whatever it has the most evidence to support. Understand this and you can create any reality you desire in your life.
Your primal brain keeps you alive by rewarding you with pleasure when you engage in behavior that is life-sustaining. Therefore, your brain is a pleasure seeker. Understand how this works in your life and you can manage it rather than being managed by it.