Love Yourself & Intermittent Fasting

The growth hormone also helps offset the effects of cortisol, a stress hormone that affects fat storage at the belly.

Practicing loving-kindness mindfulness will help you unveil the feelings of love. It will equip you with tools you need to practice self-love. Below is how to practice loving-kindness mindfulness.
1. Assume a comfortable sitting posture.
2. Focus your concentration on your breathing, take a slow deep breath, and then slowly exhale it. This will help you focus on your breathing.
3. As you continue breathing, create positive affirmations that you will repeat in your mind. Identify any negative feelings or thoughts you may incur after reciting each affirmation and identify their source.
4. Think of yourself. Identify the feelings that come along with thinking about yourself. If any negative thoughts arise, replace them with positive affirmations.

When you notice you have negative thoughts about yourself, accept these thoughts first, and then try to determine their source, before moving on to rewriting each negative thought with a positive one.

Find out how you feel when you are less than perfect.

Determine if you hold any negative beliefs about yourself. You can do this by asking yourself these questions.
*Do you ever have regrets about something in your past?
*Do you hate yourself for lacking a certain thing or trait?
*Do you ever feel like you are not good enough? You may hate yourself for a mistake or failure you made in the past.

Overcoming negative beliefs about yourself
*Avoiding perfectionism
*Discarding your negative filter
*Focusing on the positive aspects of your life

Identify the need to improve your inner voice, write down the ways you can do it, and expound on each one of them.

When you finish creating the list, go through your points. However minor they may be, understand that each single one of them is a clear reason why you deserve love and respect.

o the negative things people say to you get to you?
Do you beat yourself too hard when you fail to achieve your goals?
Do you do things that matter to you?
Can you tune out negative energy from the outside world?