Holding onto those old ‘skinny clothes’ is doing you more harm than good (Even if it is just one single pair of jeans that is 2 sizes too small). Whether you can see them in your closet or they are well hidden in a box on the top shelf, they are still in there wreaking havoc in your life. And even if it has been so long you have forgotten they are in there, your subconscious remembers, and that, my darling, is where the trouble comes from.
You see, keeping your ‘skinny clothes’ until that glorious day in the future when you fit into them again, is keeping you from losing those extra pounds in the first place. “What you resist, persists”, is more than just a pithy quote. By holding onto those jeans, you resist accepting all of who you are right now, and so those extra pounds keep, persistently, in place.
By not accepting all of you right now, you cannot begin to love yourself as you are. Instead, you continue to identify with the ‘skinny-me’, (with the bangin’ booty in those jeans) and re-enforcing the belief that you are not good enough as you are. That those extra pounds somehow make you less worthy. And that you will remain undeserving until they fit you once again.
So that all adds up to some pretty big piles of failure and guilt as the years continue to go by and they are still in the back of your closet, not fitting. When every New Years you sent the intention that this will be the year you lose the weight and every year you don’t lose a pound. Or worse, you gain an extra pound or two.
AND, as if all of that wasn’t enough….keeping those jeans also re-enforces your scarcity mentality. By clinging to the past (and the clothes that went with it), you are sending the message out to the Universe that you do not trust that what you need or want will be provided in the future.
That might sound like a whole lot of ‘not-worth-it’ to you, and I would have to agree with you. And if it doesn’t, you may want to pull them out into the light of day. This day. And this you. And look at them again. And see if you still love them enough to continue to pay the price of keeping them.
