Grab your pen and paper, and get ready to jot down the 3 most overlooked weight loss mistakes that can ruin your slimming progress and keep your permanently frustrated with your body.

These are not your average weight loss mistakes… since pleasurable weight loss is not your average weight loss program!

These mistakes are very subtle and deeply rooted. They are sneaky little stinkers that are usually overlooked because they are patterns of behavior that have been woven into our daily life by our culture. (Eeeek!)

Here’s some good news though: These weight loss no-no’s shall fool you no more!

Weight Loss Mistake #1: Thinking Too Much

Thinking is not inherently bad (in fact, brain power rocks), but excessive mental preoccupation with anything, especially weight loss, is not conducive to slimming down.

Thing is, we live in a society that places thinking as its centerpiece. We are encouraged to use our thought process to figure everything out; and to produce more, at an increasingly faster pace.

When you’re stuck thinking in your head, you can’t feel the wisdom of your body, listen to its messages, or relish the pleasure of eating. Feeling, listening and enjoyment are part of the pleasurable weight loss recipe, and too much thinking yanks them away from our experience.

The Antidote: Be in your body, especially while you eat. Learn to be present with your body sensations through yoga. Experience the vast range of feelings your body is capable of through booty-shaking, rock-climbing, or skinny-dipping. Release excess thinking gradually, with whatever makes your body feel good.

Weight Loss Mistake #2: Long-Term Stress

Long-term stress is a massive weight loss no-no, because an excess of worry-related feelings produce the physiological “stress or survival state” in the body.

The stress state reroutes the energy your body could be using to digest, metabolize fat and communicate its wisdom to you, to protecting itself with extra weight. In this state your body literally produces a cocktail of chemicals that tell your body to pack on the pounds.

In our culture that insists on promoting feelings of worry, anxiety and stress, this mistake runs deep. (All you have to do is turn on the news to notice how our culture is all about producing, and prolonging, stress, worry and anxiety–it’s bananas!)

The Antidote: Gently start to become aware of what you talk about… what you think about… and what you watch in the media. Shift into becoming a guerrilla warrior for your weight loss biochemistry and for your pleasure.

Weight Loss Mistake #3: Doing Things TO Your Body, As Though it Were An Object

Society teaches us we need to restrict our diets, force our bodies into an ideal shape and engage in an unpleasant workout regime, in order to reach our weight loss goals.

We’re encouraged to have a really mean monologue with your body: tell it what to do, when, and how, since it’s something to defeat, dominate and overcome. (Ouch! Just writing that hurts.)

In reality, your body is not an object to do things to, to abuse or to restrict.
It is a radiant, living, intelligent organism that is part of YOU!

You are are in your body. You are with your body.
There is no separation.

Your body talks to you with an all-over wisdom, wisdom that comes as sensations from different places, not just the head… which is really such a tiny part of the body!

Your female body wants to dialogue with you; “she” wants to be slim and at “her” ideal weight, just as much as you do.

The Antidote: Listen to your body’s voice; let “her” contribute to the conversation with your mind, “What’s for lunch? What type of exercise are we going to do? When are we going to bed?” and “girl, when are we having sex?” Go for the dialogue: team up with your body, your female animal.

There you have it: doing things hand-in-hand with your body, releasing excess stress and truly embodying your body, are the powerful antidotes to avoiding the top 3 weight loss mistakes of: 1. Thinking too much, 2. Long-term stressin’, and 3. Treating your body like an object.

Does this make sense to you, my dear?
Are you beginning to realize ways in which you may have been overlooking these sneaky weight loss mistakes?

Thing is, these aren’t only weight loss mistakes – these are habits that take away from the quality of your life.

I’m here to support you to powerfully, gradually and consistently endeavor let go of these mistakes to pleasurably reveal the hot, svelte body that awaits you.

I’ll see you in the comments below, where I want to know the following:

1. Which of these weight loss no-nos is most holding you back?
2. Which of these pleasure-centric antidotes can you commit to implementing?

With love,
xo Jena

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