- I hope you guys are all ready for 2019,
and I hope that 2018 was a great year for you.
But if it wasn't, guess what?
A new year is starting in just a few weeks.
I want to lose weight.
I am finally doing it.
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Hey goalie squad, welcome back to 70 Pounds of Life,
my weight loss journey to lose some weight.
My name's Marissa Dawn and I am down 90 pounds
since starting my weight loss journey,
and I have learned, through my weight loss journey,
how important self-love is.
A lot of people don't associate the two.
In fact, they feel that going on a weight loss journey
is kind of, or could be seen as the opposite of self-love.
But for me personally, I combine self-love
and my weight loss journey,
and I go through my weight loss journey
while giving myself a lot of self-love
and learning about self-love.
So, this video is going to be some ideas
for new year's resolutions in regards to self-love,
basically how to set your new year up
in a positive and a kind way to yourself.
So, some ideas to focus on self-love
for new year's resolutions for 2019.
Number one, the first idea that
I'm going to throw at you guys
is to think about maybe taking care of your body
more than you have in the past,
adding in some nutrient-dense food
that's going to be great for your mind and your body,
maybe adding in some movement,
get some endorphins going.
When I first started my weight loss journey,
I hated exercise, and I looked at it in a negative light.
So, for me, movement equaled negative experiences for me,
but it doesn't have to be that way for you.
You can do something that you enjoy doing,
even if it's just going for a walk,
getting your body moving,
going out into some fresh air.
You'll be surprised at how much
just being outside and getting some endorphins flowing
will make you feel a lot better,
not only about yourself, but just your outlook
and your energy.
Endorphins are real.
I can attest to that.
Number two, journaling.
This is a great way to build a relationship with yourself.
I personally started journaling
about a year into my weight loss journey about self-love,
and it has been extremely helpful.
Just in the past few months of 2018,
I have been making it a habit
to wake up in the morning and write in my journal,
and it's basically a really, really great way
for me to get my thoughts down on paper,
and I can go back and reflect on those thoughts later
and kind of make sense of them.
You can also follow self-love prompts.
You can find a bunch of self-love prompts online,
and you can start implementing those in your daily life.
A lot of them are meant to be written in a journal,
so you can definitely do that in your journal.
But also just, I have to throw it out there, guys,
I just finished writing my own personal
fitness/self-love journal, and there are weekly
self-love prompts throughout the journal.
It's a 90 day journal, so I will link it
down below in the description
if you guys wanna check that out.
Number three, clean up your social media,
and what I mean by this is how many people
are you following that, when they post something,
it makes you feel bad about yourself?
You're comparing your body or your state of mind to them?
Yes, they can be inspirational, but also,
there's a fine line between inspirational and comparison.
So, go through your social media,
and if you're following anybody
that makes you feel any type of
negative feelings towards yourself,
just click the unfollow button.
You don't have to see that.
You can find other people to follow
who are more like you, have similar bodies as you,
who are in a similar mindset as you
that you can learn and grow from.
So, I just think that it's really important
that you're not following people
that are making you feel bad about yourself,
because we're on social media so much,
and without even thinking about it,
we can scroll through and see a post
and automatically think, ugh,
I wish I looked like that, or she's perfect,
and you don't even think about it,
it just happens as you're scrolling through.
So, a great way to start working on self-love
and how you feel about yourself
is to stop following the people
who subconsciously make you feel negative about yourself.
Number four, this is something that I did
over the past few months, the last few months of 2018,
and that is removing energy vampires.
If you don't know what an energy vampire is,
it's basically someone who
it sucks all your energy to be around.
So, it can be something as simple as
you have a friend and whenever you go out,
they're constantly talking about themselves,
and what they're dealing with,
and they don't take a moment to even acknowledge you,
to see how you're doing or what you've been dealing with.
These are energy vampires.
An energy vampire can also be
someone who just makes you feel not that great
once you're done interacting with them.
And if you have anybody like this in your life,
it is okay and it is not selfish
to draw back and either, one,
just eliminate the time that you spend with them,
or two, limit the amount of time
that you're spending with somebody.
It is possible for a member of your family
to be an energy vampire, and I'm not saying
cut off ties with your family and your loved ones,
but maybe limit the amount of time
that you're spending with them.
Number five, forget about yesterday.
This is such a huge thing for me.
Your past does not define your future.
It doesn't define what you're doing right now,
so don't let what happened yesterday,
or weeks ago, or years ago define
how you're feeling about yourself currently
and the actions that you're taking on a daily basis.
Focus on the now, focus on what you can do right now
to better your relationship with yourself,
or to do something that's going to make you feel good
and make you feel happy.
Number six, morning affirmations.
Ooh, morning affirmations!
Guys, if you don't do this,
I'm telling you right now, you need to start.
I just started about, mm, two weeks ago
doing morning affirmations,
and I am feeling fantastic.
If you don't know what an affirmation is,
it is basically a, and I'm gonna put this in, like,
bro-science for you, because I don't know
technical terms when it comes to this,
but affirmations are basically
phrases, or sentences, or statements
that you are saying to yourself.
So, you can write your morning affirmations
down in your journal, but also,
you wanna say them out loud to yourself.
So, what I've been doing every morning is,
when I wake up, I come to my little mat area,
and I meditate, and I breathe,
and then I do my morning affirmations
and write in my journal.
So, I will write out my affirmations into my journal,
and an example of an affirmation,
what was my affirmation this morning?
Oh, what was it?
Hold on, let me look, I have to look.
So, one of this morning's affirmations was
I am stronger than any excuse,
and I sit right there, behind the camera,
you guys can't see it, I look into the mirror,
and I say my morning affirmations 20 times
while looking at myself in the mirror,
and it's just you putting positive vibes
into the universe and speaking positive things.
And by the time I'm done with my morning affirmations,
I am feeling so empowered, and just so great about myself,
and it reflects in my day.
It reflects how I feel going through challenges
throughout my day, and if I need to,
I'll go back to my morning affirmation midday
and I'll say it a few more times.
It's just a really great way
to get you in a positive mindset,
because your mindset dictates
how your day is going to be.
Number seven, meditation and breathing.
I feel like meditation has really changed my life
over the past six months,
and when I first started meditating,
I had it in my head that I needed to, like,
sit with my legs crossed, and do this with my hands,
and have serene music, and some incense burning,
but no, that's not the case.
Sometimes, I just lay in my bed and I meditate.
There's no wrong way to meditate,
and it doesn't have to be perfect,
and it doesn't have to be pretty.
If you are on the train going to work in the morning,
sit there and meditate.
Just close your eyes gently,
or just find a spot on the floor to stare at,
and just go through breathing.
Focus on your breathing.
So, meditating and breathing.
For me, whenever I'm feeling stressed
or I have any type of anxiety building up,
I will stop what I'm doing, and I'll just breathe,
and I'll focus on my breathing,
and it brings me back to my center,
and it's a really great way to kind of stay calm
and avoid having high anxiety.
The thing about meditation,
and I think a lot of people, including myself,
get this wrong when they first start it,
is that they think that meditation
is a way to kind of avoid the emotions that they're feeling,
but what I personally have learned
over the past six months is that meditation is not that.
You don't want to ignore those emotions that you're having.
The point of meditation is to be able to sit there,
acknowledge those emotions, sit with them,
and still feel at peace.
Basically, you're telling yourself,
okay, yep, there's that anxiety that I'm feeling,
yep, there's that depression that I'm feeling,
yep, there's the feeling of negativity
because I didn't accomplish this goal.
You're acknowledging them, but you're telling yourself,
okay, there it is, I see it,
but I'm gonna focus right here,
and I'm gonna come back to my center,
and I'm gonna feel at peace,
even though there's a whole bunch of BS flying around me,
because you don't want to let your emotions dictate
how your day's going to be,
or dictate what actions you're gonna take in the day.
So, you want to be able to acknowledge those emotions,
feel at peace with those emotions,
they're valid emotions, but don't let them dictate your day,
or what you're going to do,
or the actions that you're gonna take throughout your day.
Meditation and breathing is a great way
to kind of get comfortable and embrace those sucky emotions.
Number eight, commit to better sleep.
This one is especially important because,
when you get better sleep, your mood improves,
you can think much clearer,
your interactions with other people improves,
your energy is better, you just feel fresh,
you feel like you're ready to take on the day.
So, trying to get, for me, I need a solid
seven hours of sleep, at least.
I know that there's some people who say, like,
oh, you should have at least, like,
I don't know, whatever that number is,
but I think it's different for everyone.
So, figure out what that sweet spot is for you,
and then make sure that you're getting
a good amount of sleep every night.
And one tip to help you get better sleep
is to put your phone down an hour before bedtime.
Most of the time, there's blue light on your phone,
and that blue light, they've done studies,
and it's shown that it increases your brain activity,
and it's harder for you to fall asleep
or to get your brain to go into relaxation mode
because of that blue light.
So, there is a setting on most smartphones
where you can set a timer to turn the blue light off
and to go into the other light setting.
I can't remember what the other one is called right now.
But you can turn the blue light setting off
and have the other one come on.
But I think it would probably be best
to try and eliminate using your phone
an hour before bed.
Number nine, do more of what you love.
So, write out a list, right,
list out everything that makes you happy,
or everything that you love.
It can be going for a walk,
spending time with family, watching Netflix, cooking,
anything that you love or like to do.
Write it out, and then figure out a way
to implement doing at least one of those things once a week.
I think that that is a beautiful New Year's resolution,
to be able to make time for yourself
to do the things that you love.
And lastly, number 10, unplug.
So, we are always on social media,
we're always doing something digital or watching TV.
Maybe it would be really good for you
to take one day a week, so maybe every Sunday,
you're just offline, you're unplugged,
your disconnected, you're focusing on the now.
Get out and go and do something with your family
instead of being in front of the TV or on social media.
Unplugging is something that I'm going to be implementing
in my New Year's resolutions this year,
and I think that it's going to be
very helpful for me, considering this is my job,
social media, and just being online
all of the time is my job,
so I think that'll be really helpful for me
to spend some quality time with myself,
and not focusing on what's going on online.
Also, there's a lot of negativity
in the news, and just online with articles and stuff,
so it would probably be beneficial to unplug
at least once a week.
And if you can't commit to an entire day,
then commit to a few hours once a week.
I'm gonna put a link to a video
where I talked about how to create
realistic and obtainable New Year's resolutions,
so if you want to do any of these
ideas that I threw at you guys today,
make sure that you go and watch that video,
and you set yourself up for success.
You wanna make sure that the goals are specific,
they're obtainable, you can do it in a timely manner.
It's all in that video.
Make sure that you're thinking about those ideas
whenever you are deciding on what
your New Year's resolutions are going to be.
I hope that you guys maybe got some good ideas
for some self-love resolutions.
Start small, work your way bigger.
Just remember that you don't have to be perfect.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
Any type of little baby steps that you make is progress,
and a bunch of baby steps lead up to big steps
and reaching your goals or your resolutions.
So, I hope this video was helpful,
and I hope you guys are all doing fantastic.
Remember, if you guys want to purchase
the journal that I created,
I will put the link down below.
This journal's great for planning out
your weight loss journey while also focusing on self-love.
There is 30 day habit trackers in here,
there's a monthly goal where
you can track your measurements,
you can track your weight, non-scale victories,
but also, I think my favorite thing
about this journal is that I made sure
to include some self-love prompts in there.
So, for every week of this journal,
there are self-love prompts for you to follow
and to implement weekly into your plan for the week.
So, if you guys are interested in this,
it will be for sale.
I'm so proud of it.
This is basically the journal that I always wanted
when I was first starting my weight loss journey,
and it just didn't exist.
There's not many weight loss journals or planners
that focus on self-love and fitness,
so I went ahead and just wrote my own.
So, if you guys are interested in that,
I'll put the link down below in the description.
I'm very proud of it, and I'm very excited
to introduce it to you guys.
I hope you're all doing well, and remember,
as always, guys, you hold the power in your hands
to make any changes in your life that you wanna make,
and I will talk to you guys later.
Happy 2019, bye guys.
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