Weight Loss and a Healing Mindset

For years I resisted thinking of my weight loss goal as a healing goal. I wasn’t sick! I could still walk, I didn’t have a cold, I was breathing. I certainly didn’t have diabetes, heart disease or arthritis like the rest of my family. What did I have that needed healing? Weight loss was just about the way I looked.

On top of that, I was such a fat, lazy slob that I didn’t deserve to heal anything until I lost enough weight. I was in a constant cycle of thinking that when I lost the weight I would be worthy of healing, better skincare or hair care routine, better makeup or nicer clothes. But not until I lost all the weight and was sure I wasn’t going to gain it back.

Thinking that I wasn’t worthy became such a part of my life that even when I was able to lose a significant amount of weight it was never enough for me to upgrade anything to the level that I thought I would have been worthy of if only I was a size 0.

I finally let go of this painful and destructive thought pattern when I noticed my health getting progressively worse. Instead, I became determined to stop chronic illness in its tracks. Instead of just accepting that I needed anxiety medication and an inhaler I decided to research a plant-based diet for getting rid of those symptoms.

Of course, if you need those things I’m not saying go off them on your own. Obviously, I have a doctor involved. But I knew that road was not the one I was going to stay on forever. I have worked in the medical system for 11 years and have seen nothing but worsening health in the people who did nothing but stay on prescription medications without managing their illness on their own.

I started to look into the healing aspects of fruit and vegetable juices and found the Medical Medium and read his wonderful books Cleanse to Heal and Celery Juice. Both these books started me on a path to change my life in a bigger way than ever before. I didn’t have to look at weight loss as only healing or only aesthetic. I was finally able to see the value in both sides of weight loss!

It is my hope that if you’re reading this blog you begin to see the value in your own life and your own experiences for yourself and not just for others. As you can see having this inward attention on myself has made me want to reach out and show others that there is a better life for them, it hasn’t made me selfish or narcissistic. I think that is what we tell ourselves more than anything: If I love myself too much I’ll be selfish. Not true!

The other lie that I was telling myself was that if I took the focus off of losing weight (punishing myself for how much I ate) by putting the focus on healing, I would lose all my progress. But now that I know that healing was the missing component to my weight loss mindset I have lost more weight than ever before!

Loving yourself by thinking of your weight loss journey as a healing path is the best thing you can do for those around you. Who knows how many people in your life are just waiting for someone like you to lead by example!

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