In a recent informal poll conducted among women of retirement age, it was revealed that creating and maintaining healthy habits often poses the biggest challenge to living healthier lives. The poll highlighted three common areas where women aspire to create healthy habits: losing weight, changing eating habits, and being more active.

This blog post aims to provide insights and strategies for overcoming the obstacles that prevent us from creating and maintenance of healthy habits. By identifying and reframing self-sabotaging thoughts, you can unlock your potential for a healthier and more fulfilling retirement.

The Struggle is Real – Overcoming Setbacks.

Building new healthy habits can feel like a cycle of repeated failures, resulting in feelings of shame, guilt, overwhelm, and hopelessness. Acknowledging and normalizing these setbacks is crucial, as it lays the foundation for positive change. However, what many fail to recognize is that creating healthy habits is easier than you THINK.

Trying to build new healthy habits and then failing over and over again feels terrible. Believe me I know. Shame. Guilt. Overwhelm. Hopelessness. Yep, I have felt them all. What I now know about creating new healthy habits is this. It is easier than you THINK!

Automatic, conscious and sub-conscious, self-sabotaging negative thoughts are the primary reason we fail to create and maintain healthy habits. These thoughts stop us from being our best selves and getting what we want from life. 

The Power of Thoughts – Breaking Free from Self-Sabotage

Automatic, conscious, and sub-conscious self-sabotaging thoughts often act as the primary barriers to establishing and maintaining healthy habits. These negative thoughts prevent us from becoming our best selves and hinder us from achieving what we desire in life. Let’s explore some common self-sabotaging thoughts:

• I am not the kind of person that can stick to goals.
• I can’t lose weight because of my slow metabolism.
• I’m too busy to prepare healthy food”
• I can’t maintain an exercise program.

These are thoughts (beliefs, ideas, opinions). And we believe them. They are deeply rooted and we can feel pretty annoyed or thrown off when these thoughts are challenged. We are attached to these thoughts.

By recognizing and addressing self-sabotaging thoughts, you can significantly enhance your ability to build and maintain healthy habits. Shifting your mindset and replacing limiting beliefs with empowering ones will pave the way for a successful transformation. Embrace the journey towards a healthier retirement and unlock your true potential for long-lasting well-being.

The Path To Transformation – Steps For Success

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