Weight Loss for Food-Lovers with Molly Zemek
Episode 74
Summary:
We all associate resolutions with New Year’s Day, but this episode of Weight Loss for Food-Lovers reveals why summer actually offers an equally great opportunity to turn over a new leaf. Wherever we are or hope to be, Molly has tips for getting and staying there. It all starts with a Mid-Year Check-In to revisit – and reignite – life commitments.
If over-eating and over-drinking are often ways to escape feelings, Molly’s check-in offers the opposite: A safe place to assess our personal growth. What will it take to continue evolving? How do we more fully connect with our truest selves? Molly walks us through the Four R’s – her framework for assessing, adjusting and re-committing to resolutions. It’s a process built on self-compassion, not self-reproach. Gently but honestly questioning our goals will help engender a new sense of clarity and determination moving into the second half of the year.
For Molly, two big goals for 2021 were upping her exercise and overall fun quotients. But, as her check-in helped reveal, there was a mindset to confront. She had lots of thoughts about why it might be too late, too inconvenient or too embarrassing to return to her childhood passion for swimming. There were excuses aplenty, but ultimately it came down to a simple first step: Just showing up and doing her best.
Not surprisingly, Molly’s re-entry into the world of Master’s Swimming has been amazing! Her fears have been allayed and she’s achieving both the exercise and the fun she desired. Do your 2021 resolutions need a jump-start? If so, then this episode of Weight Loss for Food Lovers is for you!
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Topics Covered
Why mid-year is a great time to re-assess or re-ignite New Year’s resolutions.
Molly shares a framework for performing a check-in.
The Four R’s:
Remind: Circle back to your thoughts in January and bring them around to a fresh start for the second half of the year.
Re-set & Re-start: Establish once again (without judgment about progress thus far) both long-term goals, motivation and willingness to act.
Re-commit: Get granular about actionable steps for executing your goal.
Reward & Recognize: Notice ways in which you’re showing up for yourself and positively reinforce your commitment – whatever stage of progress you’ve reached. A few hints for this important step:
Resist self-reproach vis-a-vis where you’ve fallen short.
Acknowledge positive steps, including checking in on yourself.
Build into your process rewards that replace food and wine.
Take the opportunity to practice self-compassion.
Food or drink may feel compelling in the moment, but a mid-year resolution offers the chance to tap into a true knowing about what you really desire.
Take time to celebrate exactly where you are and exactly what you’re pursuing.
Molly uses the example of her desire to increase exercise and explains how articulating goals, either in writing or spoken aloud, helps them manifest.
A shift in approach: How about just showing up – and doing the best that you can? Regardless the goal, it’s all about taking one step forward.
The work may not be easy, but discomfort is part of advancing toward our profoundest desires.
Whatever the challenge, it’s ultimately our thoughts that determine how we feel about facing a mountain and whether we’re prepared to embrace – or even enjoy – the climb.
Key Quotes
“What I help people accomplish through coaching is really connecting to their true self; really getting a sense of who they are at their core.”
“I love this idea of creating goals – anytime of the year!”
“What I’m really committed to is consciousness. I’m committed to staying aware of my reasons for eating and drinking in the moment.”
“It’s a great opportunity when you’re re-committing to figure out how to break your goal into steps.”
“Your brain loves the reward that it gets when you’re telling it that something has gone well.”
“The more you validate the work that you’re doing for yourself and the actions that you’re taking towards what you want most, the more motivated your brain is going to be.”
“A mid-year check-in is a chance to hold yourself accountable in a positive way.”
“What is it you’re trying to create out of your life? Are you aligning your time with what you want most?”
“What if you just showed up and did the best you could? What if you just started with where you are and took one step forward?”
“In order to evolve and become the best versions of ourselves, we have to be willing to go through the discomfort.”
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