Visualization - I Stay On Track With This Powerful Tool

Visualization is a tool I use when I’m tempted to eat sugar to take the pressure off. This tool is effective, powerful, and I can do it anywhere. It motivates me to stay on track and avoid falling for the lie that sugar will bring relief. And what a lie it is! Sugar promises comfort and brings grief, every single time.

Let’s do this exercise together, right now, I think you will really like it!

Sit somewhere where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes and close your eyes, (after you’ve read this section, of course.) Imagine yourself when you were deepest in your sugar addiction.

Were you bingeing everyday?

Were you hiding because you didn’t want to be seen by your husband, wife, or kids?

Were you getting heavier and your clothes getting tighter by the day?

Try to remember as vividly as possible how this felt. Think about how hard it was to manage your addiction. How no amount of sugar could satisfy you; it just left you needing more.

Try to remember the heartbreaking feeling of being unable to trust yourself after failing to do what you said you would do over and over.

Try to recall the steady weight gain, the lack of motivation, the aches, the pains, the fatigue.

And so much more.

Now imagine where you would be if you continued down that path. Picture yourself in 10-15-20 years. Visualize the health problems that would inevitably come your way and the devastating progression of your addiction.

Imagine the weight gain.

The mental and emotional drain that would follow you around like a black cloud.

The lack of confidence resulting from not doing what you said you would do, over and over.

The bondage and inability to change.

The physical effects of years of mistreating your body with excessive sugar and processed food.

Now visualize how you’ve felt at your healthiest.

Maybe you were taking the steps two at a time, full of energy and strength.

Maybe you were sleeping well all night and loving how your jeans looked when you pulled them on in the morning.

Maybe you could easily say “no thank you” to sugar and not cave it at all.

Complete freedom.

Now visualize where that path will lead you in the years to come. Really expand on this in your mind.

What is your healthy future-self doing?

Are you hiking with your husband after you are both retired?

Are you playing happily with your grandbabies (or great grandbabies!) in the yard?

How does it feel to be happy, healthy, thriving, free?

I don’t know about you, but after I open up my eyes from that exercise I have no interest in that sugary concoction I wanted so badly three minutes before!

What a powerful way to stay motivated and on track! I hope you try this today. 💗 

In Freedom,

Sarah Grace