Date: Friday 22nd March 2013
There’s no doubt that traditional dieting,
involving restriction of calories or restriction of foods can be a major catalyst for over-eating. In my case my body always wanted to make up
for the deficit in calories or nutrients by embarking on days of out-of-control
eating.
To me, the destructiveness of this kind of
eating was pretty evident, so it made sense for me to follow Lysa
& Gina’s weight loss principles which don’t involve deprivation and
don’t involve being hungry. In fact, it
feels so right to be neither hungry nor full – a sensation that I’m not used to
experiencing.
Using the WEIGH TO FREEDOM method of
intuitive eating I have lost the desire to “treat myself” all the time. It’s
not that I used to feel that I’d “been good” and deserved a treat, it was that
I was sub-consciously miserable and was “treating” myself with food to make me
feel better. I was always seeking an excuse to indulge in a treat.
How liberating it is to know that I’m free
to eat whatever I wish as long as I don’t
eat past the point of satisfaction. Lysa and Gina’s most powerful words for
me are “Eat what you truly want to
eat”. This is not the same as “Eat
what you want”. Whenever I’m faced with
a decision about food I use those words to decide. My decision is not based on
the calories, fat, fibre or nutritional value of the food, but on what I truly feel like eating at that moment.
Today I weighed myself. There was no
feeling of urgency to weigh myself; there was no waiting for “that” moment when
the scales came up with the number that would make or break my day; there was no panic about whether I had been a
success or a failure over the last week; there was no loading up on protein so
that I could manipulate the results of my weigh-in in order to feel like a winner. Not this time. I felt calm, relaxed and
confident that I had followed the three principles. I had done my best,
occasionally eaten a little more than to the point of satisfaction and felt I
was about to receive some valuable feedback.....nothing more, nothing less. The
week ahead looks positive as I follow three easy to remember principles. Thanks
Lysa and Gina.
Oh and by the “weigh”, I lost a happy,
stress-free, diet-free 1.5 kilograms this week. I don’t need to “reward” myself
for this effort, because it was done whilst enjoying all of my favourite foods J
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