Hello to all of you struggling dieters out there who imagine that you will never be able to stabilize your weight at a healthy level... and keep it there.
Have you ever wondered why it is that others seem to just release the fat and it melts away? While you just struggle with little or no results?
Or you do lose the weight, but then it all comes back and then some? Are you struggling every day with food and exercise trying to keep your body fit? And maybe you wonder why others don't seem to have these same problems?
Do you think there's something wrong with you? Do you believe, on some deep inner level, that you must be lazy, or greedy, or hopeless because you can't control your diet?
Do you think that there is something wrong with your body? Do you look at yourself in the mirror with disgust or repugnance or loathing because you are not a perfect size?
If I've touched on some issues for you, you just may have a problem with Emotional Eating. At some level, you may believe the hype that other people put out there about why you're not perfect. I remember when I was younger and very slim and trim. I used my body every day and ate whatever I wanted. I was a skinny minny. But I need to tell you that I was probably borderline anorexic, although in those days it wasn't diagnosed and treated like it is today.
I was too busy living my life to be concerned with food. If it wasn't put in front of me, I didn't think about it. Sometimes, if I was bored, I'd go eat, but life was new and exciting and there was just too much to do to worry much about what I ate.
Then I got married, had children, and began to eat regularly with my family. And as the years progressed, I began to gain weight. I think my metabolism began to change with the pregnancies. Anyway, after a few years, I weighed what was probably normal for my height and bone structure.
As the years progressed, I kept on steadily gaining a few pounds every year until finally I hit menopause and the weight just packed on. Before I knew it, I had gone from a size 12 to a size 16, then I hit a size 20. I hated shopping, I hated looking in the mirror, and I thought I always looked dowdy.
Diets didn't work. Oh, I might let go of a few pounds, but once I realized that I'd "lost" weight, some aspect of my subconscious would begin to sabotage my diet, and I'd find myself making excuses and getting right back into old habits.
While working on other areas of my life, I discovered that the real issue wasn't what I was eating but WHAT WAS EATING ME! The real issue was all those emotions that I had buried in my body that were demanding to be fed. Utilizing several of the techniques I'd been studying such as hypnosis, EFT, Guided Meditations, I discovered that when those emotions were released, I began to have more control over my food choices and amounts I was eating. And isn't this really what it's about? Having choices?
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