Comparing your weight loss to someone else’s is a good way to create overgeneralizations in your head and actually stall your weight loss. When you find your happy plan, your healthy weight, and only focus on yourself, it won’t matter what number’s on the scale. All that matters is how you feel on the journey.

 

Key Takeaways: The 3 Keys to Weight Loss

1. Commitment
2. Sustainability
3. Self-love and compassion

 

The Chief Complaint: “I Don’t Lose Weight as Fast as Others”

It’s so easy to compare yourself to other women when you’re trying to lose weight. Some body types lose weight faster than others, and of course, there are also conditions and hormone imbalances that can cause you to hold onto weight easier than others. Weight loss shouldn’t be about comparison, but about how YOU feel.

 

Comparison and Over-generalization Steal Your Joy

When we start comparing our weight loss to someone else, we’re likely falling into a concerned emotional state. Concerned about our own health and why we can’t have the easy weight loss that others seem to have.

And of course, then our thoughts turn to overgeneralizations for ourselves. Because obviously since you had difficulty losing weight once, you’ll have the same struggle every single time you try. Overgeneralizations are thought distortions we need to break free of.

What happens if you break free of these thoughts and start to, instead of focusing on the number on the scale, just enjoy the journey you’re on? Finding a way to eat that’s happy for you and a movement routine that feels good?

So what I want you to do is find out what your body type is and see how you can create a healthy routine that best supports it. Your body type can help you figure out the best way to lose weight in a healthy way for YOU.

 

Make Smaller, Sustainable Goals

Once you find something that makes you feel good to you, it’ll be so much easier to sustain. I wouldn’t say you should start off going hard for an hour’s workout at a time, but find something you can start for 10 minutes. I guarantee that if you’re enjoying the workout, you’ll want to continue moving your body.

Setting this smaller goal makes your workout absolutely more manageable for you. And when you feel that something is more manageable, it’ll be more sustainable. See how when we build onto our routines, we create lasting success?

I would also love you to recreate what success means to you. I urge you to find a 10 lb weight range that feels good to you in all ways - this will help you become a more intuitive eater.

 

Homework for Women Physicians

How can you be the best version of yourself? What is the next first step you can take? Let me know in the comments on the episode page.

 

In This Episode 

• What actions we take when we feel concerned about our weight [3:00]
• Why we tend to overgeneralize experiences and thoughts [7:00]
• What happens when you start enjoying the journey to weight loss [9:00]
• Why you need to know what your body type is [11:00]
• What happens when you find a routine that’s sustainable for you [16:00]
• Why you should start setting smaller goals [21:00]
• How finding your 10 lb range will help you become an intuitive eater [25:00]

 

Quotes

“Overgeneralization is actually a thought distortion. Basically what it does is that we have an experience in our lives and we draw a conclusion from it and any other experience that happens in our life again, that’s similar to that, we already believe we know the outcome because we’ve overgeneralized it.” [6:43]

“The actions you’re taking are going to have more to do with your ability to lose weight than the actual makeup of your body.” [7:37]

“We started off with a complaint of comparing ourselves to others in terms of how we can lose weight, but really what we’re breaking down here is what do you really want and what are you willing to do to get what you want and can you do it long term?” [19:15]

“You are perfect just as you are today. I don’t care if you have a little tummy. I don’t care if your thighs rub together. I don’t care if you keep trying on the same darn skinny jeans hoping that they fit just a little bit differently. You are perfect just as you are. You are worth it.” [27:29]

 

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