Trusting Your Body To Slim Down Workshop
Session #1
Trust - The First Belief In the Reliability, Truth, Ability, and Strength In Yourself
What Does it Mean to Trust Your Body to Lose Weight?
We are going to explore all these different meanings of trust and how they are playing out in your life consciously and unconsciously and where you might want to make adjustments to strengthen and grow this trust or enact new tools.
Let’s explore what Body Trust means to YOU
In this series we are going to think of Body Trust as –
Listening and Honoring your body’s innate wisdom.
This means that your body has innate wisdom and how do we know that your body has this innate wisdom-
1. Believe that it has signals and information that we can listen to and honor.
2. Trust hunger and satiation
3. Listen to what feels the best inside of your body – what gives you energy, what makes you feel alive and beautiful?
4. Not override these signals – by putting too much food in your body, eating past satisfaction, etc.
Now, of course, you could say well Marna, there are times where I didn’t know that I’ve been sick or had cancer and I didn’t even know anything was wrong. So I’m not totally sure I can trust myself.
That’s true – there are times where we don’t know that our body needs something or it’s craving something from you, that you’re not feeling which is why there are colonoscopies, Annual exams, mammograms, and other things that you can preventatively do to help your body talk to you to discover what your body wants and needs.
How do you begin to develop trust with anyone?
1. So, take a moment and just allow yourself to decide to develop the friendship with your body by learning to listen, honor and give it the time to understand its wants and needs. Give yourself the gift of listening and aligning and getting more and more connected to the language of your body.
2. Get out a piece of paper and let’s answer some questions about YOUR body-
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZqlN2BKZxAB5lXa8fgAi1lKF8iO0hIIS0T_ywJi4xhw/edit?usp=sharing
- How does your body tell you when it needs food?
- How does it tell you when the food you eat is working great in your body?
- How does it tell you, when the food you eat doesn’t work well in your body?
- How does your body tell you when it’s had enough food?
- How does your body tell you that it’s dehydrated and needs water?
- How does your body show you that you are tired?
- How does your body tell you when it’s needs to move for cardio reasons?
- How does your body tell you when it’s needs to move for strength reasons?
- What foods and/or activities lessen food cravings?
- What are you food cravings trying to tell you?
- Is there an area where you could tighten up your listening?
- What would have to do this week to be an awesome listener, partner and friend with your body?
Homework
Body Trust Focus Work for Session 1:
Session #2
Taking Charge of Your Brain with the 3 QUESTION PATTERN Sequence
What is Getting In the Way of Trusting Your Body
- Avoidance
- Anxiety
- Helplessness
- Strength
- Anger
- Resentment
- Upset
- Victimhood
- Happy
- Party
- From 1-10, how strong of a partner were you with your body this past week and weekend?
- Were there any times that you noticed that you mentally over-rode your body? (List between 1-4 situations)
- Can you explain more about the situation(s) that led to you mentally overriding your body?
- Why do you think you override your body’s ability to guide you
- What is the impact of overriding your body’s innate wisdom
- Before your mind begins to check-out, go on autopilot, and override your body, what could you practice putting into place, to strengthen the partnership you have with your body?
- What would be the positive benefits of creating this new practice/strategy to bring more connection, trust and honor to your body?
- How willing are you to implement this?
- Is there anything you could do to increase your willingness to implement this?
- Is there anything you can do to reward this new practice with your body?
Homework
Help yourself get in front of the situation by BREATHING in stressful times, LEAVING the room where the stress is so, or WRITING the answers to your 3 QUESTION PATTERN so you can assess your needs.
Session #3
Learning to Trust the Process
3 Common Thoughts That Get In the Way of You Trusting Yourself
I know that you want fast weight loss results – but so much worry actually takes you away from the process and often has you bounce from one diet to another in hopes of a faster process.
When you only focus on FAST, you miss the amazing work of what it really takes to lose weight – this work is 100% complete and holistic!
Trusting the ThinWithin and ThinWithin Life Process
- Overeating
- Inflammation
- Hormones
- Emotional Eating
- Thinking
OVEREATING
When you are honoring your body and eating only when you are hungry, you address the element of overeating, which means that you then have to deal with the emotional eating side of things, right?
INFLAMMATION
What about inflammation? How does this Thin Within process address inflammation?
When you begin this process of listening to your body, one thing I teach you is to pay attention to how your body feels when you eat certain foods.
The reason I do this is because, when interviewing the naturally thin, I wanted to know if there were certain foods that the naturally thin ate that I didn’t.
And what they all shared with me was that the majority of the foods that they ate were foods that made them look and feeling their best.
Which meant –
When you know that white flour doesn’t work well for your body – and you choose to eat them less, then that’s creating TRUST for your body’s wisdom.
When you choose to constantly override your body’s knowledge, this is then the emotional and mental work we do here to understand why you do what you do.
HORMONES
2 Solutions for pretty much ALL Hormone deficiencies –
We address these by –
1. Listening to the impact food has on your body – if you eat and you want to fall asleep – then we adjust the food type/quality.
2. If you don’t feel satisfied physically by your meal – we adjust the food type/quality so that you do.
3. If you feel mentally satisfied by your meal – we adjust what food your eating so you do. This is why creating you ThinWithin Life and this process works so well.
EMOTIONAL EATING
THINKING
There is no other place that I know of, where there is so much aim at transforming your inner mental world so that your physical body can reflect your new thoughts.
You can’t change facts. The fact of what your weight is on the scale, the size clothes you are wearing, or the blood work you receive back from the doctor at any particular visit.
However, what you think and feel about those facts you have 100% power to shift, change and feel inspired by.
Your thoughts and feelings create your actions and so if you are thinking crappy thoughts or feeling unhappy, that’s going to be your reality over time.
You creating your ThinWithin Life is about knowing how to feel your feelings, and to adjust your thoughts and feelings to match the life and health you crave!
Two Questions to Ask Yourself When You are Doubting Yourself and/or This Process
If you find yourself engaging in any thoughts that are negative, are unsupportive, perfectionistic, unkind, or that tell you that you are not “doing enough,” simply redirect your brain with more realistic and positive thoughts.
Write down the positive thoughts you want to think naturally, if you need extra help. For example: “I do matter”, “I am enough”, etc.
Homework
- Overeating
- Inflammation
- Hormone
- Emotional Eating
- Thinking