I don’t get something. All the so called experts on weight loss seem to agree that before you can be successful taking off and keeping off the pounds, you have to understand the reasons why you are eating. Not only what started you down the wrong road but what is happening right now that makes you run for the fridge. So how is it that I have figured out the origins of my eating issues and I also recognize what the current problems are that are triggering my ongoing battle, yet I’m not successful in losing weight? (oh boy, was that ever a sentence full of mangled grammar) I know what my stressors are, I know how I should be dealing with them, I know that eating won’t fix them, I know, I know, I know,,,, BUT knowing doesn’t seem to translate to success. All the insight in the world doesn’t seem to translate to success. How does one make the leap from knowing to doing?
Hmm…interesting. I think the answer lies in action! Translate the knowing to doing and even if your head doesn’t follow there’s a world of sense in the ‘fake it till you make it’ maxim…if we practice ‘doing’ the rest will follow. And also, get rid of the ‘shoulds’! x
Liz – Funnily, I was going to say, whatever you do, don’t bother trying to “fake it till you make it”. I’ve never met anyone who ended up “making it”.
Donna – I can only speak from my own years and years of this experience, but I had to come to the conclusion that, for me at that time, the positives of being heavy outweighed the negatives. But it was very hard for me to acknowledge that there were good things about being overweight – expecially when the whole world was telling me otherwise.
I think maybe I need to talk my way past that wall again if I’m going to take off these final pounds.
Hang in there!
Liz, “Fake it till you make it” is good for the short term, to get you over a rough patch but I’m talking about permanent change. I’ve never found that faking it helps on a permanent basis because when all is said and done, it is still faking it.
Trish, maybe that’s the problem. Maybe I just haven’t reached the point where the negatives outweigh (pun intended) the positives of over eating.