Day 16: Changing what we think

"What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think." ~Dr. Patrick Gentempo

Have you ever wondered how you got into the situations you have gotten into? It just doesn't seem possible that we get into some of the predicaments that we do.

While I was gaining weight, I knew what I was doing. I made my choices. For some reason though, I was living under the false belief that exercising less while eating the same amounts had nothing to do with me gaining weight. I thought, "There must be something wrong with me. I should not be gaining weight like I am."

There was something wrong all right, but I didn't or couldn't see at the time what the problem was.

I want to change who I am physically. That means a change in the way I think. Not just the way I think about food and eating and exercise, but in the way I think about me, too. My thinking about things in my life has to change. If you want to see change in yourself, your thinking has to change, as well.

If we can change the way we think about this, just think about the other things we could change in the world (even if it is just our own personal world) if we would just change what we think?