The Bombshell Factor™

Hello Bombshell!
Recently I was asked to be a guest blogger for Diana Dorell, an intuitive counselor, healer and fabulous Bombshell! Her focus was about beauty and femininity and I was honored to be featured in her May newsletter. Here is part of my post that I think you’ll find interesting!

I believe being a Bombshell is so much more than outer beauty. However…working on outer beauty is a pivotal place to start changing the mindset that many women have that you can’t have brains AND beauty.
In my work as a Bombshell coach, I find that women are THRILLED to have me call them Bombshell! Most women are hungry to be acknowledged for their inner AND outer beauty. In a rare instance, she might share that she used to be offended when someone wanted to compliment her on her looks and not her brains. Usually when a woman is offended by compliments of that nature, she has become uncomfortable with her femininity and feels like it takes away from her “power”. Quite the opposite is true! When a woman fully embraces her TRUE femininity, there is no more powerful force in the universe.
So how does she do that? How does one go from ignoring her femininity to embracing it and making it an even truer part of who she is?
1. DECIDE. Yes, decide to be a Bombshell. Make the choice that from this day forward, beauty will become a part of everyday life.
2. The mirror exercise: Every day of your life look closely in your mirror (close as in about 3-5 inches from your face looking deeply into your own eyes) and say “I am a BOMBSHELL.” And then smile from ear to ear! That tells your brain that you believe it to be true and the neurons that support that thought will work overtime to make it so.
3. Smell like Heaven. Find a signature fragrance that makes you feel wonderful every time you put it on. And put it on every day! On those days when you won’t be seeing anyone but yourself, still wear your signature fragrance. This is a great reminder of what a Bombshell you are!
4. Get fully dressed for YOU. That doesn’t mean you must wear a beaded gown to pick up groceries. It means that when you feel great about how you look, when you run into that old boyfriend it’s not baggy sweats and apologies for not taking care of YOU.
5. Flowers! Yes. A Bombshell loves having colorful beautiful flowers where she spends the most time. Doesn’t have to be costly…just beautiful!
More women than ever realize the power of their beauty. The time is now Bombshell! XOXO Gigi Belmonico
p.s. To find out more about Diana and her amazing gifts, please go to www.thedancinggoddess.com
Tell her Gigi sent you! XOXOGigi

Hello Bombshell!

Are you loving your life right now? I am!! There are so many exciting things happening I can hardly contain myself!

Today we are talking a bit more about tolerating and what I have been tolerating.

So for the last several years I have been gaining a little weight each year. Not 50 pounds, but enough that my clothes no longer fit me like I like them to fit. I managed to go up one size and it looked like I might be getting closer to going up two sizes. I had enough and I knew I had to do SOMETHING to get back into my Bombshell clothes! Perhaps you are thinking “What are you talking about! You weren’t that fat!” Well, no, maybe I wasn’t. But let me tell you a secret my dear Bombshell…pain is pain. So whether someone needs to lose 10 or 15 lbs. or 50 or 100lbs, pain is pain. Tight clothes are tight clothes. And my clothes were getting TIGHT.

As I started to research what might be happening to me to cause me to gain weight (other than age and perimenopause!) I came across something very interesting. I found some information about food sensitivities and that I might have some! I never had allergies, but I did have food cravings…like peanut M&M’s and Mexican food! Like EVERYDAY. I had sensitivities to food I was eating almost everyday and THAT was what was making me fat. Now I just had to figure out a way to release that proclivity to eat stuff that was making me fat and never look back.

So I started to research and figure out a way to get this handled once and for all.

I came across a homeopathic hcg diet.  Let me just say I have never been a dieting kind of girl.  Never.  But it was time for me to grow up and get this handled.  So I did.

In a nutshell, I lost 17 lbs in 23 days. Yes, 17. My goal was to lose 10, but the first two days of the diet you are to food load (sounds WAY more fun than it is!) I gained 4 lbs on the food load (I call it gorge!) so that brought me up to needing to lose 14 pounds. And I lost 17. That was right after Christmas and I didn’t gain one pound back. Not one.

The reason I am telling you this is this: SO many women, because of their weight, tolerate feeling that they can never be better than they are in this moment…that life somehow dealt them the chubby card…the slow metabolism card…the “I love my fat and you should too!” and the ever popular one amongst my crowd (the southern folks!) ”I don’t come from skinny people” card (which was my favorite card by the way!) We make up all kinds of excuses why we don’t show up fully in the world. And you know what Bombshell? My confession is that maybe I was not showing up fully in the world either…by hiding behind my excuses for putting on a little weight I could hold off launching my big vision…I wouldn’t dare appear on video and show you eye to eye how to become more Bombshell fabulous because there was NO WAY I was doing that! I could drag my dream along a bit more slowly so that people around me could feel better about who they are in the world. I could dim my light a bit so that everyone else would feel better about themselves and not get weird on me because my light was shining brighter than their expectations of themselves.

Well my dear Bombshells… that girl that was so afraid to shine her very brightest is gone. She has been replaced by a new and improved model. One that can eat when she wants to eat and not when she has a weird craving. I choose my clothes instead of my clothes choosing me. I feel amazing and it feels awesome to have everything in my Bombshell closet fit me like a dream! It’s very cool really…that I got this weight thing handled…because when you get the weight thing handled you realize it’s not the weight thing at all…it’s that we sometimes forget the magic words that we are born with and life tries really really hard to take away…

I LOVE ME.

XOXO Gigi Belmonico

p.s. Want to see my little video and know more about what I did to get here? http://www.thebombshellfactordiet.com