Your weight loss goal might be ‘I want to feel good about myself’ or ‘I want to feel happier’. That’s a perfectly valid desire, and wellness and emotional wellbeing can be great motivators to weight loss, but feeling good about yourself, or feeling happy, is, in fact just a feeling.
Just like feeling sad or angry or happy is a feeling, so is feeling good. It’s a transitory event – a mood of the moment that comes and goes. Look at emotions as e-motions, or energy in motion. Feelings and emotions shift your energy levels to make things happen in your life. Feeling sad can help you to change the things in your lives that are stagnating, and happy emotions and feelings help you to share the love with the rest of the world, and express it to the people who have caused it.
However, though feelings are powerful, it’s not possible to remain in one all of the time. You can’t always be happy (and you can’t always be sad either) so while using it as a weight loss goal can get you motivated in the beginning, happiness is not a state of being and so it’s a goal you’ll never reach. Self-esteem isn’t about happiness; it’s about loving yourself enough to allow the energies in motion that travel through your life. Allow the emotions to come and bring about the results you need. You have to love yourself unconditionally before you can lose weight.
Physical changes can’t bring about mental wellness, but mental wellness can bring about physical changes. Losing weight doesn’t lead to feeling good, but feeling good helps with losing weight as weight loss is about determination and loving yourself enough to allow the changes. Watch your ‘negative’ feelings and emotions and learn from them. The sooner you let them go, the sooner you can lighten your heart for some ‘good’ emotions and feelings, and work on the physical you.
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