Stop Eating Foods That Make You Fat
Thought for the day…
By Andréa Albright
Fear Of Fat…
“It’s not arrogant for a flower to bloom.”
I wish I came up with that, but I actually heard it third hand. A friend of mine got it from the teacher in her yoga class.
The teacher was saying that realizing your full potential is something that embarrasses a lot of people…
Think about that for a moment– because not most people, especially women, feel like there is something embarrassing about even ADMITTING to their big dreams of what they want themselves to be… or to look like. It sounds selfish and shallow to want to walk through the world as a beautiful person with a beautiful body.
Somehow, in our society, there is this idea that if you want to be the very best YOU that you can be… that it is a little bit arrogant, like you are showing off, like maybe you should be ashamed about wanting to really blossom into something beautiful and wonderful.
And society, your friends, maybe even your family probably reinforce this negative idea.
Think about this for a minute… really think about it…
How would your best friend feel if you suddenly started getting really into working on your health and body?
How would she feel if you really TRANSFORMED into somebody who was as beautiful and radiant on the outside as your inside already knows that you COULD BE?
Sure, your friend would be happy for you…
But also, unless your friend is a VERY special and evolved person, probably there would be some resentment that you have changed, that you have improved, that you have blossomed and realized your full potential… and she has not.
It’s not evil; it doesn’t make her or him a bad friend. It’s just human nature. But it’s very self-defeating.
Nobody ever looks at a flower and thinks, “Wow that plant is so arrogant! What a show off that plant is.” Why not?
Because for a flower, blooming is simply the natural and right thing to do. Flowers are supposed to bloom. Nature doesn’t want the flower to be modest.
And, really, there is no lack of modesty in the flower realizing its full potential and opening up to the sunlight to show off all of its dazzling color.
And it’s exactly the same for you.
If you are totally honest with yourself, you have to admit that part of the reason that you are not enjoying fully blooming into the person that you COULD BE is that on some level you don’t believe that you DESERVE it.
You feel like suddenly losing weight, getting into shape, taking care of your body, and becoming beautiful would make you shallow or beauty obsessed, or that people would say, “oh, look at her, all she ever does is show off how HEALTHY she is.”
You are afraid that you wouldn’t know how to live that life– that it might be hard being beautiful and not having the excuse of being heavy any more?
Maybe you are afraid of being judged unworthy of being beautiful. Maybe even judged by your self. And that is a very destructive habit that CAN be broken.
The truth is, the rules of the universe… WANTS you to bloom. Like the flower, that’s what you are supposed to do.
I’m going to tell you an important, life-changing secret: It is not arrogant to bloom.
If you could learn to actually believe this one little thing about yourself, it would DRAMATICALLY change the quality of your life and it would make it dramatically easier for you to achieve your health and body goals.
So I’d like you to ask yourself– do YOU think that it’s arrogant to bloom?
Is it shallow or selfish to want to be beautiful, or want to achieve the very best body, the very best health, the very best of everything you can be?
When I lay it out like that, I know that in your heart you probably have some uneasy feelings that maybe it IS a bit selfish to want to be beautiful.
It is what the world needs from you. If you don’t do it, no one else will do it for you.
Let me say that again…
No One Else Will Do It For You.
There has NEVER been a person that is exactly like you. You are a unique individual with a unique story. Your life cannot be replaced, not can it be repeated.
If you don’t realize your potential, if YOU don’t grow to your fullest, there will never be another opportunity, and it will be lost forever.
Your life is ready and waiting to bloom. Give yourself permission to reach for the sunlight.
If you could talk yourself into this one idea, if you could honestly believe in the depths of your heart that it is not arrogant to bloom, that it is not AT ALL selfish to want health, beauty, success, and happiness on EVERY level…
…If you honestly believed that it would be a VIRTUE to bloom, like the flower, giving your gifts to the world…
…If you could change that one idea in your mind, it would be MUCH easier to achieve and keep ALL your goals in life… Especially your health, fitness, and weight goals.
I KNOW they work, because I am the proof… and so are all of the friends and clients of mine who have succeeded by changing their mindset about this.
It’s possible for you too.
Enjoy blooming.
And please feel free to tell me about how this new way of thinking works for you. I’d love to hear the feedback.
I’m really excited to hear some of the ways in which you’re blooming and making your life beautiful inside and out.
Be Good To Yourself. You deserve it.
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Wow… i just stumbled upon this by accident, and i kept reading. I felt completely hooked, like this really really caught my attention becuase i knew exactly what was being decribed here…so i kept reading on…and i found myself completely in tears by the end of this little essay. This is seriously what more people need to hear. Thank you so much Andrea, you’re such an inspiration!