This is hard!

Wow...have you ever wondered how you think? Negatively or Positively? I always thought I was a pretty positive person till I started doing today's Weight Watchers Tools for Living...there are 8 total so I figured I'd take one each day for the next 8 days and focus on them.

Today is POSITIVE SELF-TALKING

"The way we talk to ourselves makes a huge difference in our motivation and in our actions. Often we say things to ourselves that we wouldn't say to our worst enemy! Sometimes we think that being hard on ourselves will make us want to do better, but more often it just makes us feel bad about ourselves, so we do worse. By changing our negative self-talking to positive self-talking, we can make ourselves feel more empowered and capable.

What effect would it have on you if you always talked to yourself like you do to your best friend?"

EXAMPLES

NEGATIVE THOUGHTS / POSITIVE THOUGHTS

I can't do this / I can eat according to my plan just for today.

I'll never reach my weight goal. / By focusing on doing the right things just for today, the weight will come off.

I've always failed, so I will probably fail again. / Each time I have tried, I have learned more about what doesn't work and what does, making me much more likely to succeed now.

I'm just lazy. / Eating well and exercising gives me more energy.

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SOOOO what are you negative thoughts and how are you going to turn them into positive thoughts? As for me? I have no idea....I figure I'll spend till lunchtime or just after thinking of maybe 5 negative thoughts in regards to my current lifestyle that are negative to my progression of a healthy and active one. Then this afternoon I'll take each of them and turn them into positives...THEN I'll post them by my mirror so that I'm forced to see them every morning as I get ready!

So who's with me? It's harder then it looks but I bet it's worth it! GO FOR IT!!!