Natural Fast Weight Loss Secret #4 – Slim, Toned People Believe They Deserve Only Quality Food
You know, when you feel quite good about yourself, meaning that despite knowing that you’re about as flawed as every other human being, you nevertheless respect yourself and have a desire to treat yourself with the same consideration you treat others, it’s almost impossible to actually pick up a “rubbish” piece of food and put in your mouth.
This is the everyday experience of someone who is naturally slim and toned. So what gets in the way of YOUR having this experience also? What gets in the way is 3-fold: cravings (which can drive you to do things you’d rather not), emotions (such as eating because of boredom, or loneliness), and sometimes ignorance or a lack of deservedness around food (not actually knowing or realising that a particular “food” is not fit for human consumption).
This particular secret is about deservedness. Oftentimes I’ve begun to work with people who are overweight or even morbidly obese and the issue of self-esteem or self-respect has reared its head right from the start, and this is tied in very strongly to a sense of shame. I find this type of thinking especially popular in people looking for fast weekly diets. It can be quite a challenge to help my client to see that feeling ashamed of being overweight is about as illogical as feeling ashamed because he or she has chicken pox, or a cold.
And even more challenging to help them believe they have the right to exist without shame or guilt. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not that I believe that “big is beautiful” or even that fat is OK. No way! Overweight is crippling every health system in the civilized world! But overweight IS an “accident” or an “illness” that no-one develops deliberately, and therefore should NEVER be subject to guilt or shame. It is totally illogical to think that someone can “cure” their overweight by willpower and that they should be ashamed for not trying hard enough, for instance.
This is as insane as saying someone can cure their influenza by willpower. This type of thinking is counterproductive to naturally losing weight fast. In addition, guilt and shame are traumatic feelings that do a lot of damage, and can often lead to massive over-eating in an attempt to self-comfort. Often this happens in one week diets, and other weekly diets. Sadly, current government health initiatives, aimed at nagging people into more healthy lifestyles, and also dangerous shows like “The Biggest Loser”, have unleashed a TIDAL WAVE of guilt and shame that have led to not only more obesity, but also to a TIDAL WAVE of eating disorders amongst children, thousands of whom are dying of diseases like anorexia or bulimia.
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