The #1 obstacle busy mamas need to watch for during a weight loss journey

The biggest obstacle busy mamas run into during a weight loss journey is themselves! You might want to blame something else, like how there are always treats in the breakroom. Or how your family is too busy to cook, so you have to eat out every night. But just like Taylor Swift would say, It’s you, mama. You’re the problem. It’s you.

Most of us know what we “need” to do to lose weight. We need to eat better (more whole foods and protein.) We need to move our bodies. We need to drink water and get more sleep. But something always seems to get in our way.

It feels like there are a million people or situations that stop us from doing what we know we should do.

“My kids wanted pizza instead of the chicken I had planned to make!”

“My husband wanted to have a date night and we always drink when we get to go out!”

“I had to stay up all night cleaning.”

“I couldn’t go to the gym today because I had to volunteer at my kids’ school.”

But Mama, those are excuses. The truth is you made a choice not to do what you needed to to be healthy so that you could do something else.

And that’s OK! Sometimes volunteering at your kids’ school is going to be more important than going to the gym.

However, if you’re in a pattern of getting excited about a new diet or exercise program, but still you let anything and everything get in your way, then you need to break free from that cycle.

Believe it or not, a new shiny diet isn’t going to change your life. The real way to get out of this cycle, and to achieve your health goals is to learn how to control your thoughts!

This is a huge part of my Macros Made Easy program because I know that when busy mamas are trying to get healthy, it’s about the food but it’s not really about the food. It’s all the mental baggage that we’re carrying around that stops us from reaching our health goals.

But I don’t want you to be stuck at this mental roadblock anymore so I’m going to give you the exact tools that I give my clients. I believe that when mamas learn how to control their thoughts they can do anything.

Step 1: Start noticing your thoughts

The first step in changing your life and your health is small. It’s going to feel inconsequential and like it doesn’t matter, but it’s actually huge. You need to start noticing your thoughts.

Our thoughts shape everything. Our thoughts control our feelings. Our feelings control our actions. And our actions control our results.

In this first stage, I'm not asking you to change your thoughts, just to recognize them. Especially when you feel like you have negative or limiting thoughts.

For example, if you take a bite of pizza and think, “This is so bad for me.” or “I shouldn’t be eating this pizza.” Take a second to stop and recognize that these are simply thoughts.

Thoughts aren’t good or bad. They’re neutral, but when you attach a feeling to a thought, that’s what makes it good or bad. As you begin to notice your thoughts think about trying to keep them neutral.

The more you begin to notice your thoughts the better you’ll be able to do in the next step.

Step 2: Create a bridging thought or belief

Mindset work comes in small increments. I don’t want you to take a thought like “Pizza is so bad for me.” and change it to “Pizza is so healthy for me!” because obviously that’s not true and when you know that things aren’t true your mind is going to instantly reject it.

So again, I want you to start smaller. Instead of thinking “Pizza is so bad for me.” Change it to, “I really enjoy pizza. I’m glad I get to have it today, what a treat.” This is a true thought - and if it isn’t because you don’t actually like pizza then stop eating it! Bahaha!

This is called a bridging thought. It might not be exactly what you want to accomplish, but it’s a step in the right direction. And bridging thoughts are absolutely necessary for success. Like I said before, if you try to replace your thoughts with things you don’t believe, your brain will reject them.

Once you start to believe the bridging thought, then you can take the next step to a thought that serves your goals better. “I like pizza, but I don’t need it today.”

This is the thought that’s going to help you reach your goals but if you tried to use it before, it never would have worked.

It’s just like trying to go from couch potato to bodybuilder in a week. It’s way too big of a jump. Slow and steady always wins the race.

Step 3: Use new thoughts to create your reality

The amazing thing about changing your thoughts is that it changes your actions and your excuses disappear.

What you used to think was impossible suddenly becomes do-able!

Your kids wanting to eat out, doesn’t phase you because you can work yourself from the thought: “I can’t do that” to “They can do that, but I don’t have to.” And it changes how you feel too. You don’t feel like you’re being an inconvenience or that you’re missing out because you didn’t make your thoughts mean that!

You can go out for date night with your husband without drinking, because you’ve changed your mindset from “have to because he is” to, “I get to choose what I do.”

I know this feels like a huge leap right now. It feels impossible to be able to just change your thoughts, but Mama I promise, with practice you can do it!

Taking small steps is the foundation of everything I teach in my Macros Made Easy Program. I’ve guided hundreds of women through this process and I’ve seen the most success with the women who make small sustainable changes vs. big changes that cause burnout.

If you want to start tackling your nutritional habits with your mindset so that you can lose weight and keep it off then let’s hop on a Healthy Mama Bluepring Call. We can have a no-commitment chat to see if the Macros Made Easy Program is right for you. And if it’s a good fit we can get started quickly so that you can create the life you’ve been dreaming of.