are you SABOTAGING your DIET through fear?
Posted on Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 5:47 am.
Here is a great little article by Liz Copeland. There are many factors to weight loss and weight gain that have little to do with what or how much you are eating. Fear, and emotions in general, play a large role in the process.
When we have trouble with other things in our life we can usually remove ourselves or an object from our lives. We can not do that with food. We need to eat to live, survival will bring high emotions into anything.
I hope you enjoy this.
David
Overeaters: Are You Sabotaging Your Diet Through Fear?
by Liz Copeland
Do you ever get the feeling that you are taking one step forward and two steps backwards?
You lose a little weight then it all gets a bit scary and you stop dieting? And then all the weight mysteriously comes back.
Or you stick to the diet all day but then in the evening you crave and long for food? And not just any food but the naughtiest, most calorific combination of foods.
Or you stick to the diet all week then go out at the weekend and find you overeat at a family gathering… then all the rest of the weekend?
All this is because your mind is trying to do two things at once. It wants to give you the pleasure and comfort of overeating, while at the same time it knows this isn’t good for you and it wants you to eat healthily and be slim.
In my recent Wellness Telesummit, I talked about night-time overeating and what can be done about it. But whether you’re specifically bothered by night-time overeating or if you are more of a weekend guzzler, it can be very dispiriting when you are good most of the time but then fail disastrously.
And you should NOT have to use massive willpower to eat well.
But perhaps the reason for falling off the dietary wagon goes way beyond food.
For example are you afraid of losing weight? Possible reasons are:
* When you become slimmer you’ll get more attention from admirers and you don’t feel secure enough in yourself to handle that.
* You’ve promised yourself (or someone else) that when you shed the 40 excess pounds you’ll also take up hangliding/master world class origami/ shed the husband. And this is taking you into scary places so it’s safer to stay overweight.
* You’ve lost weight before, but when you got to that weight, it no longer felt like you. If you see yourself as a slim person who has excess pounds, its easier to shed the weight because you probably don’t think of that excess fat as part of you. But if you see yourself as a fat person who has accidentally got slim the slimness may not last very long