I’ve got another powerful book club episode for you today! Several years ago, I read the book The Four Agreements and recently realized there was a new book, The Fifth Agreement.
After re-reading The Four Agreements & listening to The Fifth Agreement, I knew I need to share my thoughts on fat loss and The Four Agreements.
The subtitle of the first book is A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom and I think that’s such a great way to describe the quest for our ideal body & incredible health.
We want to be free from food obsession. We want to be free from emotional eating, overeating, fear of missing out, guilt, deprivation & everything in between.
I’m excited to share my thoughts on the book and how we can apply these agreements to accelerate our progress towards our goals!
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Fat Loss & The 4 Agreements
In today’s episode we apply The 4 Agreements to health, happiness and fat loss. The 4 agreements include:
- Be impeccable with your word
- Make no assumptions
- Take nothing personally
- Always do your best
The 5th Agreement
- Be skeptical but learn to listen
Resources
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Hello Elizabeth ❤️,
Wish I can express to you accurately how much you have impacted my life positively. You generosity is overwhelming!
I really enjoyed this episode and have gained a new insight towards self love and care. I do struggle with something though and wished to share with you, maybe you have an opinion on it.
I am always grateful for my blessings and although it is not natural to me, I am working really hard on self love and care. I have improved so much from before. It is something I am not used to as I always had a low self esteem due to being overweight until 4 years ago. I was bullied and told I was ugly and fat and unloved by guys in my school.
4 years ago, after I graduated from university, I decided to start my health and fitness journey and have lost weight and embraced a healthier lifestyle since then. The results of my hard work has given Me a massive boost in self confidence and self love. However, that only lasted a short while. I only can love myself when I feel loved. When I am feeling loved by another man, I feel a sense of happiness and comfort and security. I start talk g care of my food and exercise. I start being kind to myself. But when I feel lonely and not feeling loved, I tend to feel really down and demotivated. I get my comfort from food instead. I realize one reason why I may still not have found my significant other is due to my low self esteem and closed personality ( I am really shy around men and I think they can sense the low self esteem).
I know only self love matters but I can’t seem to feel worth it without being loved. Being loved gives me courage. I have tried to get myself into learning how to love spending time alone without needing any man’s attention, like working on my hobbies, seeing friends. But none of this seems to work for more than a very short while until I am reminded of my empty feeling and loneliness.
I really hope you have something to share with me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your time and effort ❤️.
Hi Safa! Thank you for your thoughtful comments and I totally understand this. I also agree with you that self-love matters and the acceptance we get from others can only be temporary when we don’t have a base/anchor of self-love and respect. I’d challenge you to ask yourself each day, “What is ONE thing I love about myself? What’s one thing that’s great about me?” or challenge yourself to do one thing for yourself and by yourself each day. Like all new things, it takes time & practice. Time and practice. Time and practice. Like any relationship, this will take daily effort.
Thank you very much, Elizabeth ❤️. Having you ask me to try to challenge myself into doing kne thing for self love daily makes me feel like I am accountable to do so because I take your advise seriously. I will begin this challenge today, along with food journaling and the index card challenge ❤️.
I appreciate you a lot!!
Many thanks.