Weight Loss Problems

Hi

I often talk to customers who have weight issues. One thing that seems significant is that most of these people have one of more of these issues...
a) Don't have healthy eating habits.
b) Don't have high self esteem.
c) Don't feel they have enough motivation to go it alone. Or don't know how to go about it.
d) Are often time poor and stressed.
e) Are very unhappy with their weight problem.
f) They really don't understand the physiology of why they can't lose weight.

It's about the way we see ourselves. This is not about looking in the mirror and seeing a fat/thin person staring back. It's about...
a) When we were children and saw what our parents ate. That was imprinted on our brain.
b) How they related to us? Were we a favourite or second best. Did they spend time with us or not? Or were we cast aside? Did we seek comfort in food?
c) How did we enteracted with them? Loving parents? Cold parents?
d) Did someone critisise us at school. Did we take it to heart without consciously realising that?

We need to learn to forgive that parent/person who affected us so much. Maybe they didn't know what a profound affect they were having on us at the time. Let go. In letting go we are healing ourselves not the other person. We are also severing that hurt/bad memory that is holding us captive and effecting our health.

Most of us don't realise that we are making choices each and every moment. From the time we stop our car at a fast food outlet, or pick up the phone to order that pizza...we can choose to drive away, or put down the phone and go do something else instead of ordering a pizza/big mac.

Ask yourself every time you put something to your lips whether this is nourishing you?
Give yourself permission to choose foods that will keep you healthy.
Stand in front of a mirror and say...I have done the best I could. I love myself. I am beautiful.
I didn't know until I tried to do this, how I perceived myself. And it took me a few times before I could actually do this. Keep trying till you are able to do this. It is so healing for the soul.

Bye for now.