It's Time To Get HONEST With Yourself to Transform Your Health and Fitness Journey
What is self honesty?
Acknowledging and accepting the facts about yourself, your choices, and where you’re at right now.
Let’s break that down:
Acknowledging and accepting: calling it out for what it is and come to recognize as true
The facts: something known or proven to be true
About yourself, your choices, and where you're at right now: who you are, what you do, and how those have led to where you're at today
Why is self honesty important?
It is the foundation to change!
If you do not acknowledge and accept the facts about yourself, your choices, and where you’re at right now… no real change can be made. Self honesty is the beginning of letting go of being overly self-critical of yourself.
There's an element of forgiveness in self honesty…
The past is the past, today is a new day, and you have a desire in you to change… you wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t. That is something to celebrate.
Self honesty also allows you to be more intentional in all you do.
It takes the emotion out of your thoughts about your journey and everything becomes a little more objective because you're looking at it through the lens of facts instead of identifying with your failures, faults, or struggles.
So start practicing some self honesty more often!
No more brushing choices or feelings under the rug. Stop constantly justifying habits that you know are compromising your health.
Acknowledge, accept, and do something.
Self honesty is Step 1 in the Starting Point Process and creates so much breakthrough… when you embrace it.
Get after it.
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Join Starting Point School and let's get you on track to your healthiest life!
FULL TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] How does honesty play into weight loss or nutrition or fitness, and why should you even tie the two together in the first place? Spoiler, it's foundational. So let's talk about what self honesty is and why it's vital to your health and fitness journey as a mom.
Hey mama. Welcome to the Tough Love Mom podcast. I know you're here because you're ready to get consistent and finally lose that weight. You're not afraid of a little tough love. You know what to do to lose weight, but following through on those things feels impossible. You wish you could just feel like your strong, confident self again and want to be a good example for your little ones, but you get thrown off by mom guilt and the unpredictability of motherhood.
It's frustrating. Taking on your journey postpartum is hard, but it's not. Im. Hey, I'm Liz, and I've been where you are. I gained a lot of weight in my pregnancies, [00:01:00] 90 pounds and then 60 pounds. I needed to lose that weight to take control of my health, and honestly, just wanted to feel like myself again with the sustainable approach to weight loss.
Simple consistency in working on my mindset. I lost it all in just over a year, both. And I'm here to help you do the same. I believe that we have an ingrained ability to figure out what we need to do, make it happen, and do it in a way that AWS the world. If you're ready to stop falling off the wagon, create solid, routine, and healthy habits, and finally feel your best inside and out, all while enjoying Dino nuggets on your salad, you are in the right place.
We're about to transform your journey. My. Get pumped up. It is tough. Love time.
All right, we jump in right in. What is self honesty? Here's the definition. Acknowledging and accepting the facts about yourself, your choices, and where you're at right now. All right. You know we're gonna break that down because that's what I [00:02:00] do with these definitions. So acknowledging and accepting, that's simply calling out for what?
And that's key word it says, and not, or acknowledging and accepting. Accepting, coming to recognize as true next part of the definition, the facts. Something known or proven to be true about yourself, your choices and where you're at right now. So again, let me, let me bring it back. Calling out for what it is and coming to recognize that is true, something known or proven to be true about who you.
what you choose to do and how those two things have led you to where you're at today. Now, why is that important? Why is the self honesty so important? I already told you, right? I spoiled it. It's the foundation to change. If you don't acknowledge and accept the facts about yourself and your choices and where you're at right now.
No real [00:03:00] change can be made. Those things have to. That's self honesty. This just saying, okay, that's why I'm at where I'm at, and it's what it is like it's the past. It's a choice I've made, and I can recognize that if you can't do that, if you can't walk through that process, you cannot really change.
You're just gonna keep going through back through the same cycles until you finally are honest with yourself. It's also the beginning of letting. Of being overly self-critical and feeling shame. Now, this is huge. This is like a huge breakthrough that moms have in their journey because it is really, really, really hard to feel motivated to make change or to show up even when you're really critical about yourself or you feel ashamed about how you are or how you used to show up.
Like when you're feeling those negative feelings or having those negative thoughts about where you're at in your. You're [00:04:00] not gonna wanna show up. It's a very destructive cycle. There is an ele element of forgiveness and self honesty. The past is the past. Today's a new day and you have a desire in you to change.
You wouldn't be listening to this podcast if you didn't, and that's something to celebrate. That's something to recognize and like pat yourself in the back for, I'm celebrating you for that right now. Self honesty also allows you to be more intentional. , all the things that you do. So let me, let me explain how real quick self honesty helps take the emotion out of your thoughts about your journey.
So again, when you can acknowledge and accept the facts about where you're at right now. , you're looking at things in an objective sense. It takes the emotion out of it. Everything becomes a little more clear, a little more fact-based instead of emotion-based, because you're looking at it through the lens, again, of facts.
[00:05:00] Facts about yourself, your choices and where you're at. Not through this identity of who you are or your past, or your failures, or your faults or your struggles. You're not looking at it through that lens, which is much more emotional. You're looking at the facts you're making. More objective. Can you take the emotion out of it completely?
No, but the more you're self honest, the easier that gets and the less critical and negative and emotional you'll be about all of it. It's simply looking at your journey and saying, I see that I make this choice over and over. So obviously it's a habit and although it's a he an unhealthy one, it's still a habit and it makes sense why I'm really struggling to lose weight because that's happening.
That feels much less emotional than being like, Ugh, keep doing this. I'm such a loser. Like, I'm such a failure. I'll never be able to lose weight and be healthy for real, like all those other people. I see that's so emotional and that's very common to think that way and have that thought process. But when you can be honest with yourself and instead of [00:06:00] just immediately going to this frustration and hyper criticism of yourself, you can start to point out the facts, see it for what it is.
If it's something you do over and over, it's a habit. Even if it's un. Habits are just things you do realistically. So like if you press snooze a hundred times before you get up in the morning, or if it's snack time, you constantly go to like a candy bowl that you have in the house. Or you know, after kids go to bed, you're eating popcorn and chips and whatnot, like a pop soda man.
I've lived in places where they call it everything, Coke, . You know, if that's a hap, if that's something you do consistently, that's a habit. And when you can see it as. and you can think that way. It's much easier to point out what's going on and what it is that you want to change. So start practicing self honesty more often.
It's not comfortable, but it is so, so insanely beneficial. [00:07:00] Okay? No more brushing your choices or your feelings under the rug, cuz that's the opposite of self honesty. That's ignoring what's going on. Stop constantly justifying your habits that you know are compromising your. , I want you to acknowledge, accept, and do something.
And it doesn't need to be this major big thing, but just point it out for what it is, accept that it's happening and make one little change. Self honesty is actually step one in the starting point process and the mamas that are in starting point school are working through it right now and I'm so excited that they're doing that cuz self honesty creates so much break.
so I can't wait in a few months to share with you the changes that these moms have made in their lives using the starting point process by starting with self honesty, and it will only happen that change will come because they embrace this piece. The step one, the self honesty. Even though it's so uncomfortable, you are capable of doing it.
So [00:08:00] start, you can. Get after it before you go. Thank you for spending this time with me on the Tough Love Mom podcast. If this episode encouraged you in any way, the number one way you can thank me is to leave a review letting me know how this show has impacted you. Then. Send this episode to another mom friend, or take a screenshot, post it on social media and tag me so I can personally thank you for helping me on this journey to impact thousands of moms.
I'm so grateful to be on this journey with you, sister. Until next time, get after it.
