[My Current Weight Loss Journey] The flu! I missed two days of eating…a miracle?
I am recovering from the flu over the holidays. I never knew that you could actually miss two days of eating unless you were in love or on a fast! Yet, my appetite totally disappeared. What do they say…”Feed a cold; starve a fever”? Well the fever wanted to be starved, because I couldn’t imagine eating anything last week and am still having trouble looking forward to anything but soup. It wasn’t stomach flu either.
Although I felt irritated at first about being ill, including the inconvenience and suffering involved, I feel grateful in some respects, because my body is now cleaned out and rested. It’s as though my body was signaling me to rest and to also give my digestion a rest so that I could have a jump start of energy and focus in January.
What is your relationship to illness? Do you get annoyed? Do you view it as a time to lay low and heal? Do you allow people to serve and support you? I’m interested to hear your reflections.
By the way, please note our special announcements and news:
- Early bird deadline for the O.W.L. Certification & Training Program is next Friday! Contact Janis@JanisPullen.com for details, or listen to the two audios below.
- Special FREE teleclass so important this time of year: “The Ultimate Coach: Three secrets to extraordinary profits and results in your weight loss practice. To receive the recording of this FREE class we held on Tuesday, please visit www.janispullen.com/ultimatecoach/.
- If you are a coach or a health practitioner who would like a booming business and would like to help people keep their weight off forever, please check out the new O.W.L. Weight Loss Certification and Training Program which begins in February. This program combines leadership skills, powerful coaching techniques, business building training, as well as teaching the 9 sabotage patterns block permanent weight loss and how to shift them. Contact me at Janis@JanisPullen.com or visit www.owlweightloss.com/programs/certificationtrainingprogram/ for more information. This program can be your pathway to expanding your income stream and improving your finances in the coming year.
- Special Weight of Money Breakthrough 90-day Group Coaching Program. Visit www.JanisPullen.com and click the “Wealth” tab, then click on “Weight of Money Breakthrough Programs.” Then contact me for specific details.
Have a healthy and happy week,
Success Story
The most “WOW” part of Janis for me, is the ownership that she takes in working with you! She approaches the relationship as a “Partnership”, which means that she takes a “Personal stake” in your results. This approach inspires you to follow her guidance and do the work because you know that she cares as much as you do about your progress!
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OWL Success Tips: How to Get Unstuck Now
Are you stuck? Want to have your next breakthrough with a simple practice? The practice is to follow instructions without resisting.
OWL Success Tips: Follow instructions without hesitation for one week and see what happens
Humans try to make simple things hard; then we struggle. However, brilliant people make hard things simple. One way to simplify and to have a new breakthrough is this: Follow instructions. Whether we’re talking about instructions for assembling a toy, practices from your coach, sticking to your nutritional plan, insights from your wise inner self, or any other kind of instruction, practice FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Do you resist following instructions because your monkey brain is thinking of all the reasons why you should not? Give it up!
Einstein said…
Problems can not be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
It is in the following of instructions that you gain new awareness.
I predict your life will get easier, simpler, and more peaceful when you let go of that resistance and just try it. Then watch to see what beautiful breakthroughs come your way.
Here’s to your next breakthrough!
OWL SUCCESS TIP: Last Reminder: The Clutter Inside is Making You Heavy!
Even if you are not overweight, the clutter insider your head, home, car, or office may be contributing to the “weight,” that is emotional OR physical heaviness!
OWL Success Tip: Register for “The Clutter Inside: 6 Easy Steps to Shed Weight and Overwhelm Right Now!”
(You can listen to the recording later if the time doesn’t work.)
The Clutter Inside:
6 Easy Steps to Shed Weight and
Overwhelm Right Now!
I would love for you to join me at my special event.
Whether you are overstuffed with weight or clutter or both, this teleseminar is for you!
You will
- Recognize where clutter is not serving you, even sabotaging you and your weight
- Discover how clutter is costing you more than you think
- Identify the subconscious blocks to your success
- Understand simple ways to reframe your relationship with food and “stuff” to shed excess weight both internally and externally
- Learn 6 easy steps to eliminate clutter forever from your home, office, body, and mind
Join Certified Professional Organizer and Simplicity Expert Miriam Ortiz y Pino along with Weight Loss and Weight of Money Coach Janis Pullen for a not-to-be-missed 90-minute teleseminar Tuesday, August 21, at 6:00 pm MDT. The call will be recorded and a link sent to listen later if you cannot attend the live call.
Your investment of only $47 will open doors to new and exciting possibilities. Don’t wait!
My Current Weight Loss Journey: Week 8 I Want to be Like Everyone Else
I attended Girls’ Night Out recently where we meet at a home and bring covered dishes for dinner. I notice that when I attend something like GNO, or Ladies Bunko, or a neighborhood party, I always behave in one of two ways:
I either tell myself I am restricted from eating the naughty things or I tell myself I can eat whatever I want.
This is definitely an “All or Nothing” mentality. In the O.W. L. Programs, we call it the “Either/Or” context.
Ok, so I already know this. I teach in the O.W.L. weight loss and money programs how to dispel the Entitlement/Deprivation sabotages. I also teach regularly how to shift to a “Both/And” context. What is interesting to me is why it comes up for me.
I hit the nail on the head today! I want to be like everyone else. I want to fit in. I want to be liked. If I am uncomfortable and not fitting it, I numb my feelings by eating the wrong stuff or else I become Nazi lady and eat nothing. If others are eating a bunch of junk, I want to eat it too.
On the other hand, if I hang around people who eat healthily, I want to do that too. At a recent GNO at my home I invited a friend who dropped 50 pounds last year with my O.W.L. support. Being very committed to keeping it off (see the Keep It Off Club at www.owlweightloss.com/programs/keepitoffclub/ for information on that program), she brought a veggie tray as her contribution, thus giving me “permission” to fit in by eating vegetables instead of the other more fattening foods.
So here is my weight loss work this week: I must ignore my inner, insecure, people-pleasing saboteur and remember to tell myself, in the words of an old “Saturday Night Live” character, Stewart Smalley, “I’m good enough; I’m smart enough; and dog-gone-it, people like me!” By the way, I’ll weigh tomorrow and give you an update next time.
I would love you to share your sabotage patterns and how you shift them.
OWL Success Tip: Are You Feeding Your Flesh and Starving Your Spirit?
Have you ever wondered why some spiritual journeys involve fasting? In listening to a radio program recently, I heard someone say that when we overeat or eat the wrong foods, we are feeding our flesh while we starve our spirit.
Success Tip: If you want to be more connected and in tune with the spiritual (and emotional) parts of you, you must eat to feed your spirit.
What does it mean to eat to feed your spirit? Why would we even discuss this?
We are holistic beings, comprised of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components. The food we eat affects all of these. You’ve seen it yourself. When someone is sluggish and drinks caffeine, they might perk up physically and also become more alert mentally. When someone is feeling sad or angry and eats sweet, salty, starchy, or fatty foods, they might shift their emotions to calmer or happier. When someone eats too much sugar, they have physical reactions like energy followed by a crash or diabetes.
Just as food impacts the body, mind, and emotions, it also impacts our ability to connect with our purpose, our bliss, and our love – elements of spirit. Spiritual voyagers know this and experience deeper connection from a fast. My O.W.L. Weight Loss clients know this too. When they eat the wrong stuff, they become disgusted, disconnected, and self-deprecating. When they eat the right stuff in the right amounts, the discover inspiration, purpose, and joy.
I’m not suggesting that you fast. I am suggesting that when you eat anything, you pay attention to what exactly you are feeding: Is it your flesh or your spirit?
Just Released!
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