Weekly Newsletter - 17th July 2023
A note from Lindell:
Happy Monday friends,
How are you? (really pause and check in with yourself and ask yourself 'How am I?')
I'm AMAZING! I'm feeling amazing because I scored my very first goal in soccer/football this weekend.
I cheered SO loud for myself ha ha ha.
So much fun.
I'm also AMAZING as I've had a shift in my mindset this past week.
I've not been at my goal weight for over a year. I've been about 5kg above it (and higher at some points).
I go through stages of feeling like a fraud and a great big failure.
And I go through stages of feeling proud.
Looking at my goal weight and comparing it to my current weight today really gets me down.
5kg/11lbs I've not maintained.
There's moments each month that I sit in that comparison and feel down, worthless and like a failure.
Then I remind myself that comparing myself today to where I THINK I SHOULD be is like comparing reality to a fairy-tale. It's never helpful.
Comparing myself today where I ACTUALLY am, against where I started... which was 20kg/44lbs heavier...now that's way more valuable and it feels a heck of a lot better to me.
I'm not a failure if I am not at goal weight but did maintain 20kg weight loss.
I'm not a failure even if I had lost and was maintaining less than that.
If we take away weight measurements and comparisons and we look at other results like overall health, well-being, mental health, self love, energy, and how much more I live my life, then I see absolutely huge changes (for the better) and so much success.
Go ahead and do the reflection yourself.
- Where did you start (weight or measurement) and where are you today?
- What else has changed for you from day 1 to today?
As I take stock of where I am and choose to love me today, I also (and can't help) look forward to what else do I want for myself?
- I want to score more goals in soccer (wink). 4 years ago there was no 'soccer' on my horizon!
- I'm so much fitter today than I was just 10 weeks ago AND I want to increase my fitness even more.
- I have a lot more energy AND I want to increase my energy even more.
- I am stronger than I was AND I want to increase my strength even more.
- I've lost and maintained 20kg AND I want to lose a little bit more too.
- I love myself so much more AND I want to learn to love myself even more.
- I'm so much more emotionally healthy AND I want to continue to practice and improve feeling my feelings.
- I'm so much kinder to myself AND I want to live with even more kindness to myself (real kindness that doesn't become excuses for me not doing hard things).
- I live with much more freedom around food than I did AND I want to create even more freedom.
I'm here where I am, I am so grateful to my past self (don't worry, I also have judgement there saying "Yeah but you could have done better blah blah blah" but I'm quick to put that aside) and I'm going to continue to practice living life with 1% improvements.
I think many of those 1% improvements I've had over my journey have been so small I've barely noticed them and thus forget about them so easily.
I'm going to keep banging on about your small wins because when we add them up they make a BIG different to your life and every single one of them is worth celebrating multiple times.
For the week ahead let's keep our Pause Practice going. 10 Pauses for the week, and let's add some celebrations in there too. Big celebrations of small wins.
Keep going and keep growing.
Light up your life.
Lindell xo
Member Spotlight:
Buddies Diane and Cat π
How can we possibly pass by shining the spotlight on these two incredible women who have been Buddies supporting each other through it all. Here's their recent post:
and Diane got some stunning pics on her drive back 
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