When perimenopause came knocking at my door a few years ago, I wasn’t very excited about letting it in. Because all of a sudden, I didn’t really like my body anymore.
When I was younger, it was so easy to love my body. But as soon as I hit my fifties, I just constantly found reasons to pick it apart.
And when I decided to lose some menopausal weight, I realized just how negative my mindset had gotten.
I knew I didn’t need to just “think positive thoughts” – that’s not how weight loss or mindset works. So I started by recognizing which of my thoughts were helping me lose weight and which of them weren’t.
And there’s a simple way to do that with something that I call the Two-Step Tool.
Step One is to find your thoughts, and Step Two is to decide if they’re helpful.
I actually wrote an entire book about this mindset tool, called Mind Over Menopause, which is coming out next month. You can preorder a copy from your favorite retailer here:
In it, I tell the whole story of how I lost weight (and you can, too!) by using the Two-Step Tool to find my unhelpful thoughts about my weight, my body, what I was eating, and how much I was exercising, in order to break out of that negative mindset and step into my middle age and beyond, feeling amazing.
Today’s video is the first in a short series – coming out over the next few weeks – where I’ll be sharing more with you about the Two-Step Tool and how you can use it to lose weight and love your menopausal body. 🌸
