How Saying Yes Changed Shonda Rhimes' Life | Super Soul Sparks

Well, first of all, you lost a lot of weight.

I lost 110 pounds, which was a complete byproduct of the entire thing.

It wasn't the goal.

It wasn't a thing that was part of it.

One of the yeses, though, was one day I thought, well, you can't sort of say yes to everything and not say yes to taking care of yourself and not say yes to health.

And that came from sort of having an epiphany of I work hard to succeed at every single thing I do.

I work my butt off at work.

I work really hard to be a mother.

I work really hard at everything.

Why do I think that losing weight's supposed to be easy? Why do I think that it's gonna be fun to put down the fried chicken? It's never going to be fun to put down the fried chicken.

I'm always gonna hate losing weight.

So if I can accept that I'm always gonna hate losing weight, then either I'm gonna do it or I'm not going to do it.

So you made a decision.

Yeah, I gave myself some rules.

I mean, some really clear rules.

Like I said, I was never going to tell myself I couldn't have something.

which was a new thing for me because I'd always made a bunch of like really crazy restrictive rules.

No

carbs.

Chicken with no skin.

It

lasts like three days and then I'd be eating an entire cake or something.

So now I sort of just made it.

I could have whatever I wanted.

And I made a really crazy rule for me, which was amazing, which was I only eat what I crave.