Diet Coaches - You Can Do It!



		You Can Do It! - Be Battle Ready Hello Special Friends, We hope this finds you each enjoying and celebrating many victories over your battle with food this week. It is a battle, isn't it? No one who has ever been overweight and unhappy about it will disagree with these statements: losing weight is hard, losing weight is a battle, losing weight is a long, difficult process, losing weight is not for the faint of heart! Are you prepared for the battle? Are you willing to fight for what you want? Are you willing to defend yourself from the enemy (often disguised as too large a portion!!), are you willing to look at the enemy (even it's chocolate fudge) and say "no way will I allow you imprison me again. today, I take away your power and I defeat you." If you are ready for the battle - enjoy the victory, dear friends, it is yours! If you aren't ready for the battle - don't despair. The enemy may seem big and ugly and he has been battling with some of us a long, long time but that can change today! It can. We don't send people into combat without preparing them. We want to help you prepare for your battle to stop overeating. We want to arm you with information and insight into the strengths of your armor and the weaknesses. We want to help you keep the strong places strong and make the weak places stronger. A strong place for me is after dinner. Once I'm done dinner (for reasons only God knows and I give Him all credit, here) I can stop eating for the night. A weak place in my armor is three o'clock in the afternoon...it's a very weak place. A strong place for me is at my computer. I have a rule no food around the computer and I keep it. A weak place for me is my mother's house. "Oh, darling this won't hurt you. All my friends rave about this sweet treat I make." Oh, mother induced guilt is a weak place for me. A strong place for me is when I'm well rested and a weak place for me is when I'm overtired. A weak place for me is cookie dough. I won't let myself buy the prepared "spoon it on a baking sheet" dough because why fight the "spoon it directly into my mouth" temptations. If I make it (I pray the whole time) it's easier for me to limit what I indulge in. In that way, I have strengthened my armor. Your part in the battle this week is to identify the enemies, identify your strong places and identify the places where you need to be stronger. You can win the battle with overeating. You can! If a fast food restaurant calls your name; laugh loud and hard and say "bye-bye bad guy" and drive on by. If you go out to eat and there's large servings of food on your plate; laugh loud and hard and say "nice try, small fry" and have the server bring you a take out dish right away to box that extra food up before you start munching. If you're cleaning up from dinner at home and find yourself saying "why bother saving this, I'll just eat it?" Laugh loud and hard and say "you're a cruel enemy, I am not a human garbage disposal. I am better, much better and much more than that." Then throw the food away. Identify your food enemies. Make a plan to battle them. Plan your offensive actions, your defensive actions and if necessary an escape route. Arm yourself and win!!! You can do it!! We believe in you. With respect and battle-readiness, Coach Joy

		You Can Do It! - Menstrual Cycles
		Hello Special Friends, All of us at Diet Coaches send you our respect and our confidence that you can lose weight and keep it off! We believe in you. We believe that if you give up some of the food that you would "normally" eat in a day you will see a weight loss. We don't ask you to eat certain foods or follow certain plans but to cut back on the quantity of food you put in your body. Friends, we don't often do this but today we're going to address more specifically our female weight losers. Male friends, you can read on and learn more about women (maybe??), or you can see if some of our same "tracking" suggestions will help you in your understanding of your own patterns. You can also leave us here and make a plan to keep yourself focused and on track for today. Take each eating opportunity one at a time and plan. Plan to eat a smaller amount of food, today. You can do it! Ladies, are you aware of the role your menstrual cycle and premenstrual hormones play in your ability to lose weight, maintain a weight loss or gain weight? Are you aware of the role your cycle plays in your energy levels? If you're not, you need to be. Because each of us is unique and special, I can't tell you that what's true for one or some of us will be true for all of us. I can and do encourage you to be aware or even track on paper what happens for you mentally, physically, and food-wise for a month or several months. You may find that you have a super high energy level for one week within the month. If that's true take advantage of that and make that the week that you put even more effort into eating less and exercising more. You may find that prior to your cycle you crave certain foods, make a plan for including them in your food choices and giving up other foods. Always, be aware of quantities. You may find you have a couple of nights of insomnia prior to your period starting. Make a plan to use that time to journal or read and gain a better insight on the patterns of your eating. You may find you are super depressed on the first day of your period or toward the end of your period, give yourself a break. Plan to be gentle with yourself that day. Don't overeat and add to your depression just be gentle with yourself. You may find yourself getting really angry at silly things prior to your period starting. Make a plan to recognize it's your hormones and that they don't need to be fed in their irritableness. Ladies, work with your hormones not against them. Don't deny yourself chocolate if that's what your body wants. Just limit the amount of chocolate you consume. Don't give your hormones any more power...they have plenty. Learn about them and understand the patterns of your cycle and make a plan. This is part of the learning that will set you free to achieve and maintain your weight loss. You can lose weight and keep it off. Understanding what you and your body go through each month is a part of achieving that success. Start being aware of your body today. With respect and hormones, Coach Joy

		You Can Do It! - Promises
		Hello Special Friends, Greetings of laughter and celebration to you as you continue to achieve your weight loss goals. You can do it! Stay focused. Keep on track and don't let yourself be derailed by circumstances, situations or people! You are in control of what you put in your mouth. Put in less today! Friends, have you ever had someone broken a promise they made to you? Have you ever broken a promise you've made? Have you ever made a promise without intending to keep it? What type of emotions did you experience when a promise was broken? Were you angry? Depressed? Forgiving? How did you cope with it? Did you mope? Blame? Eat? Gossip? Friends, we live in a day of broken promises. We break promises to ourselves. We promise ourselves we're going to stick to a diet but we don't. We promises ourselves we're going to exercise, but we don't. We promise we're going to take better care of ourselves, but we overeat and treat ourselves like human garbage disposals. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines promise like this: 1 a : a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified. (emphasis - mine) b : a legally binding declaration that gives the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act. Friends, we need to be a people who take our promises seriously. We need to take the promises we make to ourselves seriously. If you've promised yourself that you are going to lose weight but have no intention of keeping that promise, you won't lose weight. Do you really want to lose weight or do you want to stay stuck in your overeating, weight gaining life style? Do you want to enjoy a thinner, smaller you or do you want to keep buying larger sizes? Do you want to respect yourself more and treat yourself better? You deserve better. Friends, keep your promises. If you are faithful to your promise your body will be faithful to lose it's extra weight. Plan for today, my friends. Plan to keep your promises! You will lose weight. With respect and faith, Coach Joy

		You Can Do It! - Sunday Faith Edition
		Hello Special Friends, It is with great joy and hope that we bring you our special Sunday Faith Edition of the Diet Coaches e-letter. We believe. We believe in an Almighty God for which nothing is too difficult. Matthew 19:26 says - But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Does losing weight seem like an impossible task for you? Whether you have a lot of weight to lose or the last 5 lbs, losing weight can seem like an impossibility. Have you ever cried out like I did "please, dear God, help me." I used to lay in bed as a teenager and challenge God, "God, if you wanted I could wake up skinny. Won't you do that for me?" I still believe God could wake any of us up skinny if He wanted too. He is a God of the impossible. I also believe however that God wants us to learn somethings and we won't learn them if He wakes us up skinny. Do you think it's a coincindence that sin entered the earth through a "forbidden food?" Do you think it's a coincindence that the Israelites were often incurring God's wrath because they wanted to eat one thing and God provided another (Numbers 11)? Do you think it's a coincindence that Satan'sfirst command to Jesus after being in the desert 40 days and nights was to turn stones into bread (Matthew 4)? Or that one of the ways Jesus often sought the Father's will was through fasting? Friends, God wants to be the focus of our appetites. He wanted it for Adam and Eve, the Israelites, He wants it for us today. Our appetites aren't limited to food. We could have an appetite for money, power, material things. All of these things including food take our eyes off an all knowing, all loving God and put them on ourselves. We and what we want become our own idols. Food becomes more importance than respecting our "fearfully and wonderfully made" bodies. Satisfying ourselves with extra large portions of food becomes more important than trusting God to satisfy us with smaller portions. Did you read that? Do you think it's impossible for God to satisfy you with less food than you're used to? Are you willing to call God a liar?I'm not. Hebrews 11:6 states "without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and* that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."* Friends, seek God today. Ask Him to reveal Himself to you and provide for you. Tell Him you believe in Him and that you're sorry for lusting after food to satisfy you. Tell Him you want to grow in Him and His desires for you as you lose your extra weight. Tell Him, you'll be trusting Him this week to provide for you and satisfy you with less food. Tell Him, you want to respect the body He "fearfully and wonderfully made" for you. Tell Him, you have faith and eat this week like you do. 1 Peter 5:7 shares this truth with us: "cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you." Friends, He cares. He cares about you and your desires to lose weight. We do too. Have a great weight loss week. With respect and faith, Coach Joy Scripture verses are from the New King James.

		The following are samples of the briefer encouragements that are emailed to you throughout the day if you sign up for Membership Levels Three-Five.
		You Can Do It! Hello Dieting Friends, It's mid-morning and I'm wondering how you are doing. Did breakfast go okay? Did you eat less at breakfast than you normally would have? Did you give up an extra knifeful of butter or half of your muffin? If you had a really small breakfast you may find yourself hungry now. It's okay to have a little something, it's not okay to make it a feast. A small tangerine or apple, half a banana, the other half of your muffin will tide you over until lunch. Eat it slow and savor each bite. You can lose weight. It's really a matter of changing one habit at a time. Let's start with eating less! You will lose weight! With respect and encouragement for you, Coach Joy You Can Do It! Hello Dieting Friends, Many of you tell us you check your email as a way to help you resist the lure of the snack food calling your name. Good for you. Good for you for having a plan to deal with those temptations. Good for you for reaching out for support and encouragement to stay on track and not give in to a set back. Good for you for recognizing you don't need all the food you've been consuming that's led you to being overweight. Good for you for doing something about it. Good for you. We're proud of you. Stay with it. Keep up the good job. You will lose weight. With respect and pride in you, Coach Joy You Can Do It! Hello Dieting Friends, Did you know that the word "stressed" is just the word "desserts" spelled backwards? The implications are endless. Stressed from not having desserts, stressed from having desserts, stressed from thinking about desserts, stressed from trying not to think about desserts. Is it worth it? Who needs more stress? Desserts are just another food. They should have no power over you. Remember thin tastes better! With respect and support for your efforts, Coach Joy You Can Do It! Hello Dieting Friends, Have you brushed and flossed your teeth? Brushing and flossing your teeth is not only good dental hygiene but it also helps signal your appetite your done eating for the day. While brushing your teeth affirm the good things you've done today. Affirm within yourself that you will lose weight and today is one day closer to reaching your goals. Affirm within yourself that you are worth the energy and efforts it takes because you are. You will love how you feel as you lose that extra weight. You can do it. With respect and affirmation for you, Coach Joy
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