You see, because I am a hundred percent committed to getting you the results that you want. And if I’m a hundred percent committed and you’re a hundred percent committed, there’s no way that the two of us working together couldn’t get you really close to a hundred percent. This is so stinking fun. I’m so excited that you’re listening to this and I promise you this will apply no matter what program you choose to implement. So you might be wondering, well, which weight loss program should I try? And of course I’m partial to the weight loss with the holy spirit program. But you will know which program to try by answering this question. Ask your brain, brain what’s holding me back from being at a healthy weight. What’s keeping me stuck? Now, if the answer to that question is knowing what to eat, then finding a program that tells you what to eat is where you should start.  

If what’s holding you back is the stress and overwhelm of your life and you find that you do know what to eat but you eat out of stress then you’ll need to find a program that teaches you how to get through the ups and downs of life without stress eating. Which is exactly what we do in weight loss with the holy spirit, so that would be my first question for you to answer what is holding you back from being in a healthy weight. If you find that you start strong and you give up after three to four weeks then I recommend you listen to the podcast I released on April 22nd, where I discussed how to avoid regaining weight in the common pitfalls that throw people off after three to four weeks. And so if you know those common pitfalls, you can avoid those in the front end of whatever you try.  

So today though, we’re going to talk about how you can solidify your success. Guarantee results and meet your goals no matter what program you choose. So enjoy this, I suggest that you save this episode so that you can come back to it anytime you feel your motivation or conviction diminishing or truthfully, anytime you start something new. So let us dive in. I am so pumped for you to hear this, and I want you to know that I challenged myself with these questions too. So grab a pen, and if you aren’t in a place where you can do this, then you can also look in the show notes for the questions and do them later. I want you to know that I am a huge fan of not only challenging myself, but the women that I work with to write things down. 

So although you’re hearing this and you might get great ideas coming in your brain, when you write them down, people who write goals down are 42% more likely to achieve them and people are 76% more likely to achieve their goals if they not only write out their commitments, but they share their weekly progress with someone. So find somebody you can share your progress with. We have daily accountability in our weight loss with the holy spirit program, as well as weekly accountability and weekly group coaching. But 76% more likely to achieve those goals,okay, so go find someone too. Have I sold you on the importance of this work? No matter what program you’re starting,ask yourself the first question, what would make this the best investment of my time, my energy, and my money, write that down. I remember the angst and the process of hiring my first one-on-one coach and I thought about it for so long it was such a significant financial investment for me. And when I finally decided yes, I would do it at some point, I asked myself the question I just asked you. What would make this the best investment of my time, my energy and money. So I knew that I would get out of it what I wanted. I asked myself that question because it would then level me up to ensure that I did my part, that I kept showing up for me and that there was no excuse for me to not get what I came for. It kept me focused on what I wanted and would make that investment a hundred percent worth it. It  really helped me keep my eye on what I wanted to achieve. And I kept challenging myself to meet my goals, to prove to me that I could do it. And so whatever your answer is, be very clear, crystal clear, write as many details as you can about what would make it the best investment of your time, your energy and your money. 

And I really believe that money is probably the least important of those three things because time, and energy are such precious resources in this world. So this brings me to the second question. What can I control to guarantee that I get that? What can I control to guarantee that I get that? No matter what the weight-loss program is, no matter what the steps of the program are, or not, no matter what the process is or not, no matter who the coach is, the teacher is the leader, the presenter. No matter the other people in the program, no matter what they say, or they don’t say no matter what the workbook has or doesn’t have no matter how big it is or isn’t. No matter what the meal plan is. No matter how detailed or vague, no matter what is required for exercise. No matter what, what can you control that will guarantee that you get the answer to that first question? What can I control to guarantee that?

And with that might be to lose 10 pounds to stop stress eating to learn how to pack your lunch, to stop driving through so often. What do you want? And what can you control that will guarantee that you get that. Now as you’re writing it down your brain will refute you and tell you well, that won’t work well, that won’t be enough, and I want to challenge you to just keep writing, keep writing, ask yourself what else? What else? What else? What else? Tell your brain. Listen, we’ll judge these things later because at this point, All we’re trying to do is write down what you can control. You don’t have to know how you’re going to do it. You just need to recognize a number one that you can control and number two, that it would absolutely lead you to getting your results. In fact, it would guarantee that you got the results. So continue to ask yourself what else. What else?  

And you may even want to set a timer, a 15 minute timer to just really noodle around your brain to just say brain, what else, what else would guarantee my results? Now, once you’re done, look at the list. If your brain looks at that list and says, oh, I can’t do that, that’s not enough, that’s what’s going to happen and that’s exactly what you’re going to get. You feel overwhelmed, you won’t even start the list which means you will go nowhere, you will stay stuck. You’ll be spinning out in the that’s too much, I can’t do that. And so again, I challenge you, I see that like a million times today, but I challenge you to consider what if that is enough? What if that is enough? What if it did work? What if you could do it?   

Yeah. Let’s imagine that. Imagine you have accomplished 100% of the goals that you set out to accomplish, go back to the first question, look at that. That’s a hundred percent success and imagine that you have that hundred percent you are that person? A hundred percent. How do you feel about yourself? Sit with that for a minute, dream about that woman. Who’s accomplished all of that a hundred percent. How do you feel? How do you feel as that woman who’s accomplished that a hundred percent? Wright those feelings down. Do you feel confident? Content? Proud? And whatever you wrote down, how do you show up for yourself? When you are those things, when you’re confident, and content and proud coming from a feeling of confidence, and pride, and gratefulness.  

I Was exhilarated and excited. How do you show up for yourself? So, if you were guaranteed a hundred percent success, how would you show up for yourself now? If you looked at that list and you were like, absolutely, I’m going to be there. I have the roadmap. I’ve started a program. I know what I can control. How would you show up for yourself now? So why not just do that? Why not? Do you see how this exercise is changing your focus? Do you see how this is changing your motivation already and giving you so much clarity? You see, that’s how you know, the holy spirit is speaking to you; if it feels clear; If it feels peaceful. If you look at that list and you say, yeah, that’s it. That’s what I need to do. That’s what would guarantee my results. Now your brain might offer many other thoughts but at this point, we’re not indulging in those thoughts. We’re not indulging those thoughts that aren’t from the Lord. Those thoughts that aren’t encouraging or clarifying, or uplifting.  Because of those thoughts, I don’t think I can do it. That’s too much; I’ll never follow through. The thoughts that are going to keep you stuck that will keep you from even starting the list.  

That’s not what this is about. This podcast is about how you’re going to get a hundred percent success and how, in fact, you can guarantee it. So if you were guaranteed a hundred percent success you would show up for yourself. By doing what? That list? maybe some other things. And just knowing that if you did those things, those actions you would absolutely get success.  So the truth is, the work is in believing that you can get a hundred percent success in whatever program you’re in. I want to talk to you about one other thing. About what causes us to give up and why I encourage you to not give up no matter what program you’re in.  Because what typically happens is we try something for a while and it might not work. Whatever work means, I want to encourage you. So first I want to talk about what realistic weight loss looks like, but then I want to encourage you to stick with whatever program that you’re in and why that’s important. So a common question is how long will it take?  

And there’s two pieces to that.There’s one, the physical change and one there’s the mental change, so let’s talk about the physical change. Reasonable fat loss is a half to 1% of body weight per week so you can take whatever your body weight is and multiply it by 0.005 and that would be a comfortable, reasonable weight loss. On the high end of that, you can take your body weight and multiply it by 0.01. And that would be the most that you could reasonably expect to lose in a week. That’s just the weight loss piece but the emotional and mental piece is what takes the time because you have to learn the skills needed to maintain a healthy weight.  

And I encourage you to give yourself one year. Why one year? So you don’t regain the weight. You need to learn how not to regain the weight. And that’s why we have three essential elements in the weight loss with the holy spirit program. Because you can practice them for a year and after they’re solidified for a year. You might not do them every day, but you at least know the essentials that if things start to slide a little south, you know how to get back on, you’re creating that resilience. So I’m challenging you to pick one strategy. One program, but pick one.  So the only thing that needs to change, it’s you. You are the only thing that needs to change. 

You learn how to navigate through the challenges instead of changing programs, you learn how to change. You learn how to grow in resilience instead of changing programs, you grow in problem solving and working through the stresses of life without stress eating. You learn how to overcome all the obstacles that are presented to you. Instead of changing programs instead of changing strategies. That way you change and you become a woman who can be successful and get a hundred percent success, no matter what. You become that woman and I’m going to promise you that you can make any program work for you by focusing on two things and the two things, are you focused on what you can control. And what you can control are your behaviors and your mindset. I know I’m simplifying this, friends, but if we understand that our focus needs to be on what we can control, then we stop being distracted by what we can’t control.  

And I mean distracted because when we’re distracted, and spinning out on all the things that we can’t control, we’re not working towards our goals. And what we can control are our own behaviors and our own thoughts. Trust me, I know it is not easy to do those two things to learn how to behave like we want and think like we want, but I promise you a hundred percent you can learn that skill. You can learn that. You can learn to be the woman who gets a hundred percent success. You can change your behaviors, change your mindset and change yourself into that woman. Not overnight, but you can become her. You can become that woman who doesn’t stress eat. You can become that woman who eats foods that she enjoys? And is that a healthy weight? You can become that woman who sets down all of that big bag of food rules. You can become that woman who looks at our body and it doesn’t look like a magazine and she still feels fantastic about herself.  

I see it happen every day in the weight loss with the holy spirit program. I’m gonna to tell you it’s a hundred percent possible. So what will make any program work for you? Number one, focusing on what you can control and number two, not giving up. Sticking with it for year. One year. One year, whatever program you choose, stick with it for one year. So it changes you, you learn how to change. You learn how to get a hundred percent success in that program. In fact, I believe resilience is a skill that can be learned. It can be learned and it can be practiced and what I love about that is you don’t even have to know how to do it. You guys, the only thing that you need to guarantee a hundred percent success, is what you wrote down, it’s what you can control and if you look at that, I’m guessing, whatever that list is, there’s just a few things you need to learn that no one’s taught you and once you learn certain skills, You’ll be able to do all of those things that are in your control and you won’t give up.  

So to review, the two questions you’ll ask is what would make this the best investment of my time, my energy and my money? And secondly, what can I control to guarantee that I get that. I want you to be a woman who knows how to get a hundred percent success, because you can, and that’s what the Lord wants for you and that’s how I know it’s possible. So I hope you’re feeling as pumped and as motivated and as jazzed up as I am so that you can start your weight loss journey today ,my friends. Today. And if you want to start our five day weight loss challenge, go to weightlosswiththeholyspirit.com and you can be in today, have a blessed day.