Carefully watch your thoughts for they become your words.  Manage and watch your words for they become your actions.  Consider and judge your actions for they become your habits.  Acknowledge and watch your habits for they become your values.  Understand and watch your values for they will become your destiny. - Mahatma Gandhi

It’s not necessarily your actual experience that affects you, it’s the way you think and feel about the experience that has the biggest impact in your life.  Our experiences are filtered through our five senses which are :

• Feelings / emotions
• Touch
• Sight
• Taste
• Sound

Think back to a wonderful experience you have had in the past, a wonderful holiday, a night out with friends anything that makes you feel good the moment you think about it.  How do you feel now that you have recalled that memory? Do you feel happier and more relaxed than you did before?  I’m sure that you do, even if only slightly.

Can you recognise how easily your thoughts effect your feelings?  Think now about the way you think about your body and your health.  If they are negative thoughts they will no doubt create negative feelings, which in turn can spark negative behaviour.

Right now you are probably caught up in a cycle of negative thoughts and feelings about your weight.  What one positive thought can you take today, write down and make a conscious effort to read regularly throughout the day?

Try it for one day and see how much more positive you feel by the time you go to bed.

If you can’t think of one here’s one to start you off.

I am lovable and full of life!