“I don’t like how I look in the mirror”

Recently I started to work with a man who had, most of his life, been slim. Then recently he had started to gain weight because the amount of exercise he could do had dramatically decreased because of a medical condition. During our first couple of meetings together, as he worked through the workbooks, we began to discuss what had been the trigger for him to start to deal with his excess weight. His reply saddened me, he said: “I don’t like how I look in the mirror”. I believe that each of us, whatever we look like, come from or do in life, is an amazing individual: some weird, some wonderful and some (my favourite type) weird and wonderful.

Each of us is unique, which is fabulous. All are fabulous and should be celebrated. One of my sayings is “It doesn’t matter what age you are or what you weigh, you are fabulous”. So, when my client said how he felt about himself I was sad. Using this as a starting point we started to look at how he could begin to manage and balance what he ate since he now had fewer opportunities to earn calories by exercise. For each of my clients the trigger point is different and what they want to achieve is often different. Trigger points can be: not getting into a favourite outfit, seeing themselves on a picture, or someone saying something that they may think is helpful and is actually hurtful. To see mine here is the link to the relevant blog: https://www.glenyschatterley.uk.com/what-was-the-moment/

The starting trigger is unique to each, as is the target. Some want to lose a little and get back into that favourite outfit, some want to be fitter, have more energy and at least one wants to like what they see in the mirror again. Whatever the trigger or target one thing is the same. They will each end up with a plan that works for them, because they have devised it, it belongs to them and they can tweak, change, or completely revise their plan. It is long-term and may take a while to devise but it will contain their rules, their lifestyle, their situation.

So back to my client. He has already made a good start: he decided that he will not let others decide what he eats, this means that if he is served too much food, he will stop eating when he is full and if this means leaving food, then that’s OK.

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Have fun, stay safe. Let's do it together in 2022

Glenys