Posts Tagged ‘mental habits’

Make Drinking Water an Enjoyable Habit

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Donate Your Weight is based on Seven Stress-Free Slimming Strategies. Strategy #3 is to drink 48 oz. of water each day. Click the play button to learn all the reasons it’s important to drink water and how to make drinking water enjoyable, beneficial and even fun.

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Donate Your WeightDiscuss this show with others, join the Donate Your Weight – Stress Free Slimming group on Facebook.

Your podcast hosts, Sheri Zampelli and Dr. Marjorie Miles are available for phone coaching and hypnosis. Visit Donate Your Weight for details.

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Addiction: A Spiritual Perspective

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Drugs don’t make people powerless but powerless people become addicts. When you have no power you look to “things”/ways to get that power. If you can’t/don’t get it from yourself, you will try to get it elsewhere.

Whatever thing you “use” (drugs, food, shopping, sex, etc.) you will never get “enough.” You can use and use and use and you will never get power because “things” are not the power Source. In fact, you will lose power because you are giving it away to a false God. God/Infinite Intelligence is the Source.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want. If I want love but I look to food to fill me up, I cannot eat enough to get full. No amount of food will give me the love I want so I just eat and eat and eat but I never get full because food isn’t what I’m hungry for to begin with.

This is not about religion. Some people turn their power over to religion and religious leaders and get into the same troubles of any other powerless addict. This is about claiming YOUR power, the power you were born with. If you are compulsive with food, drugs, shopping or anything else you must stop looking outside yourself for the answer and stand in your power if you ever hope to be completely free.

From Sabotage to Success by Sheri Zampelli


For help overcoming self-sabotage, including addiction get the book From Sabotage to Success and stay tuned for the next From Sabotage to Success workshop series.


Donate Your WeightFor help overcoming weight and food obsessions, try Donate Your Weight. There is a 7-week workshop starting soon. Click here for details.

Set New Habits and Get Slim without Stress

Monday, July 6th, 2009

strawberriesReady to get off the diet roller coaster for good? Need help creating new habits for weight maintenance? If so, it might be time to Donate Your Weight.

Donate Your Weight is a program designed specifically for people who are sick of struggling with weight and eating. It’s designed to help you create new habits and live free from yo-yo dieting and food obsession.

The philosophy behind Donate Your Weight is a cross between the behavior modification technique of rewarding desired behaviors and also something I’ll call the ‘Marathon Phenomenon’.

Millions of people have spent inordinate amounts of time training for marathons and raising money for those in need. They are often motivated by either getting in shape, raising funds, or both. The problem is, marathons are generally not healthy for the body long-term and certainly you don’t run marathons once a week or once a month. For most people. once it’s over, it’s over.

Donate Your WeightWith the Donate Your Weight program, you can train your mind and body daily, you can use the money from your reward jar to help those in need and most importantly, as you are doing the strategies and paying yourself real money, you are in the process of creating new habits that are the foundation for life-long weight maintenance.

The name Donate Your Weight has multiple meanings. The program is based on Seven Stress-Free Slimming Strategies that allow you to create a lifestyle of weight maintenance. To help people stay motivated and on track with the Strategies, the program includes a Success Check-list and instructions on how to use a reward bank to you pay yourself real money for successfully achieveing the Strategies. Then, you can use that real money to buy something fun and rewarding for yourself or you can donate it to a good cause.

The word Donate is also more positive and long term than the word ‘Lose’. Nobody likes to lose anything and when we do lose something, we usually try to find it. Being lost or being a loser is never a positive, empowering feeling and we almost never congratulate someone for losing (except when it comes to weight).

An important component of the Donate Your Weight program is to change your negative, limiting mindsets about your body and your ability to succeed. The word donate is associated with letting go of something in a positive way. When you donate something, you do so by choice and you never expect to get it back.

Future blogs will outline each of the Seven Stress-Free Slimming Strategies one by one. Subscribe to the blog if you’re ready to stop the struggle with weight and eating. Each Strategy is proven way to release weight without dieting. The Strategies are actions you can take each day without any negative side-effects.


To find out more about Donate Your Weight and to download the free report, visit www.donateyourweight.com

If you want hands-on support and guidance from program developer, Sheri Zampelli, you can attend the upcoming Stress-Free Slimming workshop series in Long Beach, CA July 27-September 7, 2009. Click here for details.

When Affirmations Aren’t Working

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

This week I taught a class titled “What You Say is What You Get” which is step two of the Six Steps From Sabotage to Success.

In my book From Sabotage to Success, I warn against using affirmations as a “fix” or “cover up” for what IS (see page 89 – Keeping Things Realistic and page 90 – Affirmations and Avoidance). Since publishing the book, I’ve spent more and more time doing personal and professional research and I can’t emphasize strongly enough that affirmations alone will not work if there is emotional blockage or if there are subconscious beliefs that negate the affirmation.

It is important in the process of using affirmations to be honest about what IS and not to use affirmations as a way to “will” or “force” things to change. In fact, sometimes using affirmations will bring up subconscious material that needs to be dealt with before you can move forward (see page 94 – Using Affirmations as a Learning Tool). If you insist on “only thinking positive” or if you use affirmations to deny what IS you actually delay your results.

It takes a tremendous amount of mental and physical activity to keep the uncomfortable, subconscious matter below the conscious level. However, when you are able to acknowledge that it exists and take the steps necessary to clear it, you can be freer as a result. In some cases, you can free yourself from negative patterns permanently simply by being willing to face them. Running away keeps the “boogey man” alive, turning around and facing him puts the power back in your hands, where it belongs.

What’s been your experience with affirmations? Have you used them but came to the conclusion that they “don’t work”? Were you mindful of your emotional response to the affirmations? Were you doing the affirmations with a sense of stress or urgency or did you feel good about it and go with the flow? All of these factors and more will determine the success you have when using affirmations.

From Sabotage to Success by Sheri Zampelli To learn more about using affirmations to overcome self-sabotage, purchase the book From Sabotage to Success.

Here are some affirmations to help you combat resistance:

“Growing and changing is exciting, even if I have to look at some painful things inside me in order to do it.”

“When one door closes, another door opens. I know I can become more of who I am.”

“I am willing to drop old concepts when they no longer work for me.”

“I am willing to honestly look at the way I do things and say, ‘I don’t want to do that anymore.’ I am willing to change.”

“I am free from the limitations of the past. I am free to go forward.”

“I am willing to release the pattern within me that is creating this condition.”

“I transform fear and anxiety into excitement and enthusiasm, I look forward to charting new ground.”

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