Do I Deserve Health?

Over the many (and I mean MANY) years I have struggled with my weight and trying to become a healthy individual, I was always told by friends and loved ones some variant of the following:

• You can do it!
• Once you decide you are ready, you will do it.
• When you WANT it badly enough you will succeed.

But one day I was struggling and I spoke to my health coach and she came at it a different way. She didn't ask me if I WANT to be healthy. She knows I do, or else I wouldn't have a health coach in the first place. That's a redundant question. She asked me:

• Do you feel that you DESERVE to be healthy?

 That question sort of stopped me in my tracks. I couldn't answer it. I couldn't bring myself to say [what should be] the obvious answer.   I mean, don't I deserve to be healthy?

It goes hand-in-hand with a similar question: 

• Do I deserve to be happy?

Despite all of the GOOD things in my life (and there ARE a lot of good things, please don't misunderstand this), oftentimes I am neither happy NOR healthy. Without hesitation, I can say that I often don't feel that I deserve to be happy. So I guess it makes sense that I don't feel that I deserve to be healthy either.

This is probably the first thing I need to address, but I'm not quite sure how.