Weight Loss Thinnerisms - Tasty Tidbits For A Hungry Heart

Catherine L. Taylor waxes poetic about life, love, weight loss, and the pursuit of truth and beauty.

  

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To put food and weight behind you, you will need to choose life. Choosing life means showing up with your full presence in the world. Permanent weight loss is the work of opening your heart to all that is good in you and in the world.  It means living a life of gratitude. When you feel better, you eat better.

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Most of us live lives of someday. Someday I'll___________. A someday life is an imaginary life. There is only now.

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The secret to permanent weight loss and ending emotional eating is to lead a joy filled, authentic and mindful life. This is the only way to find the peace you are looking for.

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Are your excuses holding you back from losing weight? Start to recognize the fear behind your excuses. Your excuses are a way of protecting yourself from life. Food and weight will not protect you from the pain of life.

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Weight is often a hiding place. Losing weight for good means to stop distracting yourself with food and face your fears head on. It is only by facing pain and fear that you can move through it.

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Feelings are like the summer rain. The clouds dump the rain and then they move on to allow the sun to shine again. Begin to trust that underneath the pain is the shining sun of joy and awareness. Instead of pushing pain away, let it move through you. It will pass quickly.

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Safety is an illusion. The only real safety in life is the ability to deal with what life presents to you in the moment, the ability to live from one moment to the next. That is all any of us really have.

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Not now? Not Zen! The moment contains all that you ever need. 

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Change requires the belief that change is possible for you. You are far more powerful than you believe yourself to be. You would not have made it this far if you were not capable of change. 

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You must be willing to be uncomfortable as you push past your previous limitations. To lose weight permanently requires faith, faith that there is a bigger life waiting for you beyond food and weight. Faith is an eternal remembrance of home. Home is where the heart is.

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What you can feel, you can heal. Begin to acknowledge your feelings, your resentments, and hurt. Then release them to the universal flow. Don't dwell on problems. Begin to ask and look for solutions.

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Affirmations reframe negative thoughts into positive ones. To affirm means "to make firm." Firm thinking leads to firm thighs!

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Today is the day to affirm you are good enough "as is."  

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Stop looking for approval from others. Your opinion of yourself is the only one that matters.

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Feeling bad about yourself is a choice. You can decide that who you are matters.  

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Anxiety leads to negativity. Negativity beats a path right to the refrigerator!

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Instead of starving yourself trying to lose weight, starve the critical shaming voice inside of you. Talk back to it! Refuse to listen to it's tirades. Befriend it by feeding it healing words of love. It's hungry for nourishment!

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Make the decision today to be on your own side. A self divided is a self at war. Only you can choose peace. Why not now? 

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The path to weight loss NIRVANA is paved with mindfulness. Each mindful bite brings you one step closer to "en-liten-ment." Don't bite off more than you can chew!  

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 Learn to embrace your “thinner child.”  Let her come out to play. Your "thinner self" just wants to be happy.   

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To become whole is to acknowledge the divine perfection in oneself.  

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Learn to see the perfection in imperfection. All is as it should be. No more, no less. It just is.

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You are part of a grand design. Trust in this design. Your spiritual blueprint is contained within your very DNA. You are the architect of your own soul!

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To be joy filled is to be filled with light. To be lit from within is to become a shining star! 

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To become a shining star means no longer apologizing for being the brilliant ball of light that you really are. It is the end of playing small and the beginning of acknowledging your magnificence.

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Stars do not compare themselves to other star’s, for each star has it’s own kind of brilliance. Your job is to be the shiniest star you can be! 

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If you ask yourself, “Who am I to be all that?” The answer is “You are all that and then some!” To be less than magnificent is to believe a lie. We are all magnificent! 

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Surround yourself with positive people. Look for people who have a sparkle in their eyes. They know the secret...The secret is joy!

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Become a lamp lighter. Help spark the light in someone else. Spread a little sunshine. The world needs your light!    

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A true friend is one who grants you your "beingness." In their company, your real self shines true! 

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Stop making excuses. Start to live in the solution, not the problem. Declare yourself a no whine zone!   

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To have more in life, practice gratitude. Gratitude puts you into the flow of life. Gratitude is the sunshine of an open heart!

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To become who you really are is to honor your Soul, God, Goddess, or Spirit. In this way your life becomes a living prayer - a tribute to the power of Spirit.

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Show me a woman who has settled for less than she can be and I will show you an angry, depressed, bitter, envious, or jealous woman. To settle for less than you really are is an insult to God!   

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Envy is always a cosmic nudge telling you that you are not living up to your potential!    

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You have the stuff of greatness inside you. Give it expression. It is only by honoring the greatness within you, that you can achieve your unique destiny.

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If you are waiting until you are thin to be happy - I have news for you. Being thin and beautiful will not spare you from a pain free life! 

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Give yourself permission to be happy now. 

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Peace, love, and happiness are states that exist within you, not outside of you.   

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Your jewels are hidden in the dark. Shine the light on your own darkness to discover the brilliance of your soul!

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It is only by owning all of yourself that you become whole. Take the disowned and discarded parts of yourself, and tenderly patch them into a loving quilt of self-acceptance. Wear yourself proudly. We are all a bunch of crazy, patchwork quilts!  

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You are the artist of your life. Create a masterpiece!   

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You can start your life over at any time. Begin now! 

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Your wise, "thinner master" is speaking to you. Your soul speaks in whispers. Get still and listen!

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Too busy to lose weight? Extreme busyness is a way of distracting yourself from pain and emptiness. It is the dance of avoidance - fear of the void - the emptiness within.       

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The place of lack is the place of fat. If fat could talk it would say, "I am hungry, angry, lonely, and tired. Pay attention to me!" 

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Begin to have a love affair with yourself. Give yourself the attention and love you are so hungry for. Stop demanding it from people, places and things.                              

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To be sedentary is to stagnate. To stagnate is to block the flow of life!  There is no growth without movement.  Exercise connects you to the flow.

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The greatest tragedy in life is to be afraid to grow. 

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Don't allow fear to hold you hostage. You will pay the ransom with your very life. 

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Live your bliss and flow. Surrender to the stream of life. Trust the stream to carry you where you are meant to go.

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Get over yourself! Give up the ego (small self) and you will receive the entire world.   

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As a human being you are limited, but as a spiritual being you are infinitely magnificent!   

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When you identify with your mind and thoughts, you begin to believe a lie. The lie is that you are your thoughts and feelings. You think you are bad and unworthy, therefore you feel bad and unworthy.

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You must begin to question the way you think. It is your faulty thinking and assumptions that are making you feel bad. There is nothing wrong with you!

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Reality is completely neutral. It just is. It is the thoughts and story you tell yourself about reality that is the cause of your suffering. 

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The path to liberation is to embrace reality.

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Beneath the reverberant chatter of your mind lays the ground of your being. It is exists in the gap between thoughts. You will discover this place when you cease to believe in the reality of the mind.

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Self-forgiveness is the healing balm that paves the way to self-acceptance. 

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When you began to condemn yourself, you banished yourself from the garden of your own heart.  Self-forgiveness means you welcome yourself back into the circle and warmth of your heart.

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Who does your heart beat for? It beats for you. Fill yourself up with the presence of your own heart. 

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The only way to fill your emptiness is to fill it with the love of your own heart. This fullness spills outward and touches everyone you meet. When you have become truly present to yourself, you can then be fully present to others.

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The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of your own attention. 

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When you can fully embrace yourself, you can embrace the entire world.

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There is a spark inside of you. Let the spark become a flame! Allow this flame to roar into a spiritual bonfire that warms others.  

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The most powerful cosmetics in the world are peace, love, joy, and happiness. When you fill up with these you become ageless!   

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Dare to unleash your real beauty onto the world!    

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To be a real beauty is to become FAB-ULOUS.  

F - fearless, fit, fun, fantastic, female! 

A - authentic, audacious, ageless, awe inspiring, attitude! 

B - bold, brilliant, brainy, and beautiful! 

Live FABULOUSLY! 

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Your real life can only happen when you are being authentic. Get real! Your life depends on it.   

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Are you a drama queen? Go on a drama diet and enjoy "thinner peace." 

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Are you MIA? Missing in action? Have you failed to show up for your own life? Dare to be you! Inhabit the skin you are in. Show up for your life! 

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Real beauty is a fierce radiance that flows outward to light up the world.  

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To be a real beauty means to live from the calm, clear center of your soul.   

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You will never find yourself by looking for your reflection in another's eyes. Turn your gaze inward and you will find the authentic you. She has been patiently waiting for you to find her.     

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Your soul speaks in whispers. Embrace the silence, and you will hear the symphony in your soul.  

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Have you relegated yourself to a bit part in the movie of your own life? Become a shining star. You can do it!  

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The only limits in life are the ones that you create. 

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Drop the story that limits you, and you will drop the pounds. Begin to question the story you tell yourself about why you can't have what you want.

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You bust through fear by questioning it. True freedom lays in seeing through fear. Your real life is waiting for you on the other side of fear.

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Your surrender your fear to find love, the truth of your being.  You must decide: Love or fear? The choice is up to you.  

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Tend the garden of your spirit. Prune and let go of the beliefs that are limiting you, so that you may enjoy the bloom of new growth. 

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Be tender with your newly budding self. You will be rewarded with a flowering of the spirit. The blooming heart basks in the sunshine of an eternal spring. 

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The ego is the bully of the heart. It fears the expansion of the heart because it knows when you realize your true identity, it's gig as the dictator of your spirit is up. 

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You are not your mind. Who you truly are is in your heart. Your spirit is love itself. That love wants what is best for you. Trust in that. There is a higher plan for your life. 

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Permanent weight loss is really about remembering and recovering who you really are. You are love. 

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When you remember who you are, you will recover your joy. Joy is your natural default button. 

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Weight is often a hiding place. Most of us are more comfortable playing small. We are afraid of our own light. 

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Dare to dream. Dream big! The universe is waiting to give you what you want. Just ask! 

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A weight loss master’s true goal is to become the highest expression of her Being. She knows that this is the path of real and lasting beauty. The rest is an illusion.  

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Life is Buddhaful. The word Buddha means awakened or enlightened one. When we awaken to our real beauty, life becomes Buddhaful.  

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Beauty is truth. Beauty is Buddha. Real beauty is Buddhaful. It is a state of Being. 

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When you find yourself fully alive with the fierce radiance of an open heart, you will know that you have come home to yourself.

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Today is the day to awaken to your real life and recover your joy. All it takes is the decision to be at peace. Why not choose peace now?                            

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