I have a problem sticking with my diet
A Health Problem
Darel,
I have successfully lost over 100 pounds. I have made the transformation from couch potato to runner. I do many healthy things. For the most part I eat healthy foods and enjoy them. I travel a lot and when I’m on the road I find myself turning to foods or caffeine drinks that I normally don’t eat. Once I get started on these foods, it is a challenge to let them go. I want to let go of this cycle. I know there is a being solution. I’m sure that this is the key. I haven’t been able to flip this switch and have this be a non-issue. Help. I intend to have this change. Telling myself that I’m a healthy, slender, naturally lean person just doesn’t seem to get it. L. A.
The BEING Solution
Congratulations on loosing 100 pounds, L A. I know that you've solved your weight problem with the BEING SOLUTION--by first choosing to BE the thin person you've now become. But more important than losing the weight, you've had a transformation in consciousness. You've become more self-aware, and are now a thinner, healthier and happier person at heart. And I truly believe that you'll keep it off!
Those who use will power to loose weight are seldom able to keep it off, because they are still an overweight person at heart, a fat person in a thin body. But, since you've used The BEING Solution to solve your overweight problem, you won't gain it back, unless your ego somehow succeeds in getting you back into the old box. I don't think that's going to happen.
When you travel it's not that easy to eat healthy, so your ego uses your frequent trips out of town as opportunities to get you back into your old eating habits. If you've made a BEING SHIFT, and I truly believe that you have, I don't think you need to worry about temporary lapses of diet. The solution to your original weight problem was a BEING Solution, but while taking off the 100 lbs, you have perceived that you solved the problem with a DOING solution.
The truth is that you could not have done whatever you did to lose the weight had you not, first, made a new and powerful BEING shift. What you may not know is that the innate intelligence in your body is quite capable of maintaining your present weight without your help, no matter what you eat. What I'm saying here, L A, is that once you've chosen your self-image, (thin or fat) your body will maintain that image by using whatever food the body needs, discarding the rest.
Examples:
I have a son-in-law who eats three time as much as I do and still doesn't gain weight.
I have a friend who came back from WWII, having spent much of the war in a Japanese prison camp. To my surprise, he had stayed healthy on one bowl of rice a day, while his prison buddies became thin and gaunt eating the same food. The difference is that he knew that bowl of rice was enough, while the other prisoners thought they were being starved to death.
So, L A, the BEING Solution for your problem is to maintain your vision of that slender you. Instead of doing the affirmation, see yourself healthy, slender, and naturally lean and put some feel-good emotion into that picture. Maintain the vision for thirty minutes daily for as long as it takes to eliminate your fear of gaining the weight back.
Once you stop resisting the desire to eat unhealthy foods, the temptation to eat french fries, will no longer be that great. In fact, you'll probably find that they no longer taste that good.
Darel