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Do
you constantly think about food?
Do you hate the way you look?
Do
you use food to take care of yourself or to punish yourself?
Are you tired of dieting and don’t know what else to
do?
Always
thinking about what you should eat and how you should look
is no way to live your life. |
After
working on my own issues with food and my body, I began to hear
friends, family, and co-workers talk about dieting and eating
in a new way. I found myself wanting to defend food, "But,
food is not the enemy...".
Then,
what is the enemy? It couldn't possibly be the wonderful foods
we so enjoy. Delicious chocolate, the sweetness of sugar, yummy
salty snacks.
How
could these foods be blamed for all the evil in your life?
Why
diet's don't work
You have learned to diet, to restrict, to limit yourself of the
food you love. This doesn't make you want the food less (at least
not forever). In fact, you want the food more!
Have
you ever noticed that you binge on the very same food you decided
never to touch again? Of course. It isn't that you don't want
it, it is that you made it bad, the forbidden item. Try NOT thinking
of a pink elephant. Go ahead, try it.
Food
works the same way. Diets don't work. Some studies show that more
than 90% of diets don't work. This is the reason.
How
you cope with dieting
You cope with restricting (restricting = anything you do to make
a food "bad") in a variety of ways.
Perhaps
you eventually
eat the forbidden food, but with a feeling of losing control.
Perhaps you completely deny that you started eating the food again.
Or, maybe you eat it but then throw it up (or exercise it off,
or any number of other ways to "get rid of it").
Ultimately,
it doesn't work but leads you more into a feeling of powerlessness
to control yourself.
You
blame your problems on food and your body. You tell yourself that
if only you could lose weight, everything would be okay. You pay
huge amounts of energy and attention to who looks thinner or fatter
than you. You feel bad every time you eat something you think
is "bad" for you.
You
think it is your fault.
Is
this familiar?
If
so, I'd like to help. If you find yourself spending more time
hating your body and thinking about food than living your life,
I may be able to help you out of your struggle.
I will support you in:
- allowing
yourself to eat and enjoy the foods you really love, without
worrying about gaining weight.
- accepting,
and even liking, your body.
- uncovering
what is driving your behaviors with food.
- lose
weight naturally through uncovering the underlying causes for
your behaviors.
- focusing
on and improving your relationships with others.
- learning
to like yourself, your whole self.
Taking
the first step towards getting help is often the most difficult
but could be the best thing you could do for yourself. Please
give me a call or send me an email today.
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