You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 45.

I'm your host, master Weight Loss Coach and author Cookie Rosenblum.

Today and every Tuesday I'm here to coach you and teach you how to end your emotional eating,

how to bust through your binges, and how to leave all

your overeating habits in the past.

If you just found me, a warm welcome, and if you're a regular listener welcome back. Today we're going to

talk about how cleaning out your closet can actually change your eating and your

weight so get comfortable and get ready to be

coached. Let's dive in. This episode is inspired by my work with one of my favorite clients and we were talking about clearing out her closet and at the same time we were talking about

Considering letting go of some thoughts and some beliefs that were holding her back now if you're a reader of self-development books or fun

non-fiction books you probably have heard of Marie Condo's book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. It's a global bestseller in the past few months and so many of us are drawn to read about, although not necessarily do, cleaning up, straightening

up, getting things organized, putting things in order, and what psychologists are saying is that because so much of our life, so much of your life you're not able to control that mastering a small part of your world makes you feel more confident that you can

conquer whatever comes your way. So this came up recently with this client and we both could see that the same principles

apply to organizing your environment and letting go of what doesn't fit and also looking at what's going on in your mind and

possibly considering consciously letting go of what may be holding you back. And you may apply this to any changes that you're trying

to make in your life. It may be how you eat. It may be how you take care of yourself. It may be not taking time to get ready for your week so that things can go smoothly for you.

But whatever it is that you're trying to do, where you're running into resistance, it very well may be because you're holding on to old beliefs and old thoughts about yourself.

And although it's pretty common for us

to make a project out of cleaning up our kitchen,

going through our pantries, or going through our closet,

it's not as often, if ever ever that we really think about our most important storage

unit of all and that is the closet of our mind because our mind is what holds your collection of thoughts. It holds

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