Affirmations for Healthy Living—and Their Proven Benefits

Written By Marilyn Bean
affirmations for clean eating, weight loss, and fitness
 

AFFIRMATIONS. We’ve all heard about them. Are they worth the hype?

According to science, yes— yes, they are.

First of all, just so we’re clear, what exactly is an affirmation?

An affirmation is simply a statement you recite to yourself— spoken out loud, in your mind, or written down— usually in a pattern of repetition and on a consistent basis.

To ‘affirm’ means to state as a fact or to assert strongly.

Thus, the intention of an affirmation is to take something that you want to believe or to have happen and state it as a fact.

Scientific research has shown that reciting affirmations affects the activity in our brains.

Affirmations have been proven to:

  • Promote healthy changes in our behavior

  • Improve self-efficacy

  • Improve self-control

  • Promote happiness

(Among many other things.)

Here is a list of affirmations I created with the intention of helping you shift your mindset towards living a holistically healthy life and implementing new habits surrounding nutrition and fitness.

Whether your goals are to lose weight, heal chronic illness, build muscle, become happier, foster self-confidence, or completely transform yourself— these affirmations will help you plant the seed.

Try repeating them or writing them down at the same time every day for twenty-one days or simply return to them whenever you feel you need a boost of inspiration.

 
this is not my practice life affirmation for health transformation
 
I deserve the best version of myself healthy living weight loss affirmation
 
my body craves movement affirmation for weight loss
 
my body craves healthy food affirmation for clean eating and weight loss
 
my body is intelligent affirmation for healthy eating
 
intuitive eating affirmation
 
intuitive eating affirmation
 
my success is inevitable affirmation for weight loss
 
I get to choose what to put into my body affirmation for weight loss and healthy eating
 
I deserve to feel good affirmation for weight loss and clean eating
 
exercise is self care affirmation for weight loss and fitness
 
eating healthy is self care affirmation for clean eating and weight loss
 
I choose energy giving foods affirmation for clean eating
 
I heal myself with nutritious foods affirmation for clean eating
 
I create a life of balance affirmation for healthy living
 
I am grounded and balanced affirmation for healthy living
 
moving my body feels good affirmation for weight loss
 
I no longer need to carry this weight affirmation for weight loss
 
I am light and free affirmation for weight loss
 
thank you body affirmation for exercise, healthy living, and weight loss

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Marilyn Bean
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