10 Tips for Self Acceptance

1. Accept it feels like you’re losing control when you let go of what appears to be ‘to have control’
   
   

2. Accept healthy eating for life will be like practicing a diet project until you feel confident that you can trust yourself!

   
   

3. Remember you need ‘a diet’ until you die to fuel your body and mind, it’s time to want to love the one you choose!
   
   

4. Start small, start changing your daily eating without that ‘start over’ mentality. You don’t restart life, you keep living, the same goes for fitness and nutrition.
   
   

5. Eating well is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more you practice it and the longer you keep it up the stronger you feel and look.
   
   

6. Eliminate your food elimination list from your life! It’s time to ask yourself what you truly love to eat and build trust around having some of it now and then without guilt or fat regain.
   
   

7. Stop relying on the body scale to see how well you’re eating. The scale reflects your lifestyle over time, so if you simply focus on the ‘doing’ you need no scale to be your diet police.
   
   

8. When you give up on tracking your waist and skip stepping on the scale it’s important to take note of your choices in nutrition, your workouts and how you feel. You need to monitor your daily attention to practice and keep going. It’s very easy to forget and fall into old habits.
   
   

9. Accept that as a human you have free will and that means you might want to cheat on your own commitment. To end self sabotage and self defeat you have to give yourself a chance to ‘have a talk’ with yourself when you get tempted. 
   
   

10. Be aware of your negative affirmations that impact your motivation in healthy eating! Instead of ‘I can’t have any ice cream because I end up eating 3 gallons in a day’, tell yourself ‘I love ice cream and that’s ok, I can have a little bit today, tomorrow too, the next day and all days of my life if I want. But today, I’ll skip it!’.
    
    The point is to reduce the risk of feeling like you must seize the opportunity to enjoy what you crave right now since it’ll never come around again.