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Welcome back to another episode from beyond the Scale Podcast, a healthy weight loss podcast that motivates you encourages you to change your thinking, to take action and keep moving your body and doing doing it for the right reasons. So this is episode number nine, which is exciting and crazy, so I will definitely be having some sort of surprise guest on episode number ten. So make sure you are following me or subscribe whatever it's called whatever you're listening from, so that you get notification once episode ten comes out because it's going to be a good one. But that doesn't mean today is not going to be a good one too. So today's episode is called Rooting for you. It's of course going to be a more motivational listen and definitely great if you are on the cardio equipment right now. But honestly, you can be listening folding laundry, too. We all feel discouraged sometimes, and we work towards hard things, right? And how often when you have somebody rooting for you getting excited, giving you high five, cheering you on, how often are you more likely to push through? Someone's watching right there's your accountability, but they're rooting for you. They're seeing the positive of things, and in our head, sometimes we get freaking negative. We can get downright hard on ourselves. We are our worst critic to ourselves. By far, we would never talk to our children the way we talk to ourselves or a friend we love or anybody, right? You look in the mirror and you're like, oh my goodness, look at the eye circles or the acne or the saggy boobs. I don't know what it is, but we're critics of our own. It's nothing else, and it doesn't help us in any way, right? Saying, okay, you don't look good today. You look tired today. Oh, my goodness. Your weight is a little bit higher than where it should be saying those things and beating yourself up about them. Never help you deal with them. Never help encourage you to take action on your health. They just make you feel more guilty and more likely to not want to even start, right? It's not good when you feel like you're 1000 steps behind, like you'll never get to your goal. In those instances, you're less likely to be motivated to do something because you feel like what? I'm a failure. I'm failing at everything. I'm never going to keep up. I'm never going to get to a place I've never been. But think about. I played sports and one of the sports I did not like I'd say, I like the least. That's a better word for it was cost country running. It was like a hate love relationship thing, and it still is. Running is still that relationship for me. But how often if I was running a race and everything in me in my head was just telling me constantly, like, give up. Now you can't do it. You stop here. But then there was people along the race lines, right? When on the days when we were training and nobody was there. Guess what? Some days I did give up. Some days I didn't slow down and pause and have breaks. No one was watching. No one was cheering me on. No one was rooting for me and encouraging me to keep going. And I want you to think of your healthy weight loss journey as the same thing as a race, but a race of your own right. When you get there is up to you. How fast you get there is also up to you, but it's not going to be perfect. There's going to be times that are easier, like runs. There's going to be times where it hurts. It's hard. You feel like you're never going to win. So what's the point? You're never going to get there. But I want you to line up and have as many people as you can rooting for. You supporting you because I promise you, when you are losing weight and you're in this healthy weight loss journey, there's also critics. There's also people who don't believe in you, who don't support you, who don't motivate you to keep going. They want you to fail so that they can win their race. But guess what? They got a big mistake, because whether they knock you down a few places or not, it doesn't change what they place, right? It's your destination, your starting point. And that's how you should look at critics going forward. I know it's easier said than done, but they have nothing to do with you, right? They have absolutely nothing to do with you. So how can you have more people rooting for you? Well, you can keep listening to my podcast so that you understand that I'm always rooting for you, motivating you to keep freaking going, especially when it sucks and especially when it's hard because you'll get there. But it takes time. It takes little baby steps. It takes effort. It takes mistakes. It takes falling off track to get yourself back on track. And I want you to find one other person. I want somebody on the sidelines for you, because some days I'm not there. And I don't know when you're struggling. And I would love for you to have one other person you can lean on. In those instance, it could be a sister. It could be your daughter, it could be your husband, it could be your friend. It could be your mother. I want you to find one person in your life that can be your cheerleader. That understands why you started this journey. The real reason, the reason that you want this change for yourself, the reason why you're trying to eat healthy and exercise. You deserve to take care of you and your mental health and the person you are depends upon it. Your daily life is made up of your choices, and we all want to become stronger, more confident, healthy versions of ourselves. In order to do that, you have to have somebody else rooting for you. It's going to help. And I know a lot of us feel like we're just these superhumans who don't need anybody, right? I don't need anybody. I can totally do everything on my own. I don't need to ask for help. You are the ones who struggle and struggle and sometimes don't ask for help when they need it. But then you're the only one that ends up suffering, right? I can totally lose the weight on my own. I totally got this. It's only £100 like £10 is hard. Don't be afraid to ask for help because guess what. You'll save trial and error and you'll get there faster. Learning from somebody who's been there and made the mistakes can save you so much time and stress. Let's be real time is the number one excuse for why we struggle to start and why we struggle to stay consistent with it. You just prioritize other shit and you fall off track, but you have to continue even when you start to, because that's what happens when you fall off track. You push yourself down to the bottom of the priority list and you keep putting other things for it and then it gets down to the bottom again and you feel like you have to restart all over instead. Keep. Yes, you're going to get bumped down some days you're going to skip workouts, you're going to have backup meals that you didn't plan on having and obstacles come up and DA DA, DA DA. Yes, you move down on your priority list. Sometimes if my kids are sick, absolutely nothing else matters. But you keep bumping yourself back up because the only way I'm going to have enough energy to stay up all night with my kids and do extra. And if I take care of me too. So who else can you have in your corner who can be rooting for you if you have five people, that's incredible. Think about the race that you're running and how you'll have extra people, but make sure you reach out to those people when you are struggling or have them present in some way, keeping you accountable. Hey, I'm going to the gym this time and do you want to meet me there? Can you not have junk food tonight so that I don't want to have junk food, whatever you got to ask for and lean on. Keep doing that again. It can just be with one person. But the second thing that I want to touch on is I also want you to be your own support. I want you to start rooting for you because when you look in the mirror and all you do is criticize and beat yourself up for things that you do wrong, that doesn't help you. That doesn't push you closer to your goals. That's not the way you should be treating yourself. You should be treating yourself. You should be rooting for yourself, just like the people that you're going to choose to support you, to tell about your journey and think about them, encouraging you. You've told them about this because you know they'll support you. They'll encourage you. They'll motivate you to keep going when it gets tough. Tell you you look great, tell you, boost your confidence further. Can you imagine if you were doing that too? If every day you didn't need to depend on that other person because you had you so that other person was just a total bonus? Kind of like your weight loss journey? Sure, weight loss is the goal to get healthier. But what if you didn't focus on the number? What if you focused on you and feeling good every day? What do you need to do to get to that place to feel good? Sure. Then guess what happens as a bonus weight loss. So you have full control on how you speak to yourself, how you encourage yourself, how you talk to yourself, how you brush off mistakes and move on. That's completely up to you and you can be your own support. You can be your constant person of rooting the entire way. Again. I really encourage you. Have a couple one at least person who's there to kind of give you that reminder. Sometimes when you have doubts, I have a few of those people and sometimes you just need reminders that things are going well and someone to just speak out loud of what irrational thoughts are going on in your head. All right, this is going good. I feel like I'm failing. But wait, look at all the good. How can you switch your perspective and think about the good? What is going well? Celebrate the small wins because guess what? You're brushing them off as small and you're amplifying what's wrong? What's going bad? And that's the reason you feel like you're not getting anywhere. And that's the reason you keep giving up and giving up on yourself and being so hard on yourself. You're amplifying your mistakes, but you're not with your wins. You're brushing them off to be small, itty bitty things. And if you're not doing anything to take action to create a win, well, you know the answer to that already. Ask for help if you don't know what to do or take some bloody action, you know, you need to exercise more. You know, you need to be more active and eat more whole foods again. If you really don't know what you feel you need to do, stop wasting your time feeling stuck. You're going to keep staying stuck for a long time. Ask for some bloody help. I'm always happy to motivate encourage, make you believe in yourself. But I also want you to believe in you too. I want you to be rooting for you like I'm rooting for you. I want you to believe that it's so possible for you to eat healthy, exercise consistently and take care of yourself, but still have time to do the other things because the thing is, if you take care of yourself, all the other stuff doesn't feel so hard. It doesn't feel so tough to stay on top of. If you take care of yourself and give your body what it needs, healthy food, exercise and positive reinforcements to yourself. Start rooting for yourself and stop tearing yourself down for any mistakes you make. The goal isn't to lose weight. The goal is for you to feel your best, so keep reminding yourself that. Keep reminding yourself that progress is so much better than you being perfect and hating the process. Enjoy and celebrate where you are right now where your right now stage is because your right now stage has to have the power to get you to this goal that you're working towards, this person you're working towards becoming. I believe that you're going to get there and I am rooting for you. I want you to be rooting for you too. I want you to have one other person in your life who's also rooting for you, who understands your why and understand that you need to take care of you. You need somebody to lean on. And if you don't have that person and you need help, you don't know where to start with regards to exercising more eating healthier, then book a call. The link is always below at the end of my podcast and I would love to just chat with you and see where you're at. Where do you want to go? Can I help you get there? If not, I'm going to direct you to somebody who can at least give you the next steps. Asking for help can be really hard, but it can also be very rewarding and the best thing you ever do for yourself, so don't think you're weaker for needing help, needing support, and also start being Kinder to yourself. Start rooting for yourself believing that it's possible. Believing that you can take the action, do the hard work to get to your goals and keep listening to my podcast so I can keep reminding you. Keep motivating you to keep going, keep making progress on your health in every area of your life. You're worth it. You deserve it. And I totally believe that you can do it. Go out there, take some action, move your body and take care of you. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and I really, truly hope that something I said today created a spark for you an urgency to take some action, positive action, big or small in your health and in your life and just how you feel each day. Please share those beyond the scale wins with me in your Instagram stories and tag me at D-E-E. Pike Fitness. All one word as I'd really love to hear about them and celebrate you as you deserve to be celebrated for taking action, taking the hard, uncomfortable step outside that comfort zone, or also take a minute to share this episode with a friend, a family member, or any person in your life who know you really feel needs to hear this too. Remember that you don't need to be perfect to make progress on your health, your life. You just need to start doing so. You need to keep going. Keep learning and getting back up. You got this. I'll see you on the next episode. Let's go.
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