I'm not "Big Boned" anymore!

I had a startling realization one day as I was exercising. I realized that all my life I was told and I told others that I was "big boned". At that moment, as I was swimming in a pool in Arizona - where it was probably over 90 degrees at 6 in the morning - I realized how believing that I was "big boned" was limiting me. It was keeping me overweight, and allowing me to give myself approval to stay overweight.

Now, if you know me, you might not think I'm overweight. I attribute that to the other saying I would tell myself - "I carry my weight well". =) And I do. But for the past several years, I have not been happy with my weight or my body. I hide my thighs and was even on a quest this past summer to find LONG board shorts to keep them covered up! We had a family reunion and were going to be at a lake, and I was not going to bare my thighs for the whole family to see!

But the reunion had passed, and I was swimming - in my long board shorts - in one of the pools at the resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, where we were staying. Sean and I were there to assist Jack Canfield at his "Breakthrough to Success" weeklong seminar. The day before, Jack spent some time talking about limiting beliefs, and several participants were sharing limiting beliefs that they had been holding on to. Many of the beliefs that came up I had heard before; "Money doesn't grow on trees", "Act your age", "Nothing I do is good enough", etc.

But it had never occured to me that saying and thinking I was "big boned" was a limiting belief. Yet as I swam, it became so clear to me that being "big boned" was a belief I learned. I realized that this belief limited me by giving me an excuse to stay overweight, and kept me from trying to be the weight that I wanted to be. I thought exercise was futile - it would never help me because it couldn't change my "big boned" body. Regardless, I did still attempt to exercise every now and then.

So as I made this realization and decided to change my belief, I felt a huge shift within myself. I decided that I would believe my bones were strong and healthy. I also decided I would turnaround this idea of being "big boned" with the affirmation that "I have strong and healthy bones and a strong and healthy body". And I do.

I have even lost several pounds since that day, and I continue to affirm that I have strong and healthy bones and a strong and healthy body. When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't have the thought of being "big boned" anymore, and I know I can achieve my ideal weight by continuing to exercise and eat healthy. I will keep you posted on how it goes!