A woman lost 100 pounds but gained it back, feeling disconnected from her new self. Aaron Doughty explains that self-sabotage comes from the story we keep telling ourselves about the loss. Dropping that narrative lets you embody the new identity without the emotional weight.
I'm pretty good at manifesting whatever it is that I want, or creating it, getting to what I want it. And I lost 100 pounds. So I'm looking in the mirror on my birthday this year, and I was like, wait, this isn't me, what's going on? Right after my birthday, started gaining again. The question becomes, of course, you have to integrate this new self. How do you integrate that as it's happening for you?
Think about the story. You lost weight. What do you do when you lose something? You're gonna try to find it. When you lose your keys, what do you do? You go look for them. Dropping the story altogether can help you release the weight of the story itself. Because right now it's like, I lost all this weight.
My mom noticed that recently. She's like, I keep repeating that story instead of, as you said, just taking ownership of not talking about it, removing it like that.
The story that you have that maybe is something that you accomplished, something is still active in your field. And if you keep activating the energy of I lost all this weight, I lost all this weight, I lost all this weight, there's that other part of you that was the version of you with the weight that's like, what do you think you're— that's in the back of your mind. The next live event that I have coming up is in Los Angeles, California, January 31st to February 1st. If you want to join, go ahead and click the link in my bio or comment the word event and I'll send you the ticket.
