I still get cravings. I still feel that pull to eat more sometimes. In fact I had it so strongly the other night after I’d finished one stuffed tortilla and wanted another that it was almost comical.
I had to stand back in awe at this feeling, this raw energy that was trying to overtake me. But it couldn’t. It had zero chance.
Not because I have fiery willpower, but because I recognise this pulsating urge is just a rush of transient energy, a thought, coming from inside me. It’s a brain habit.
It has no power over my decision making ability. It can’t hijack my mind and direct my behaviour until I eat another wrap – no matter how strong it is or how tasty the wrap (curried sweet potato and salsa in case you were wondering, which you definitely were.)
And this recognition that it has no power to affect me, ironically, strips it of its power to do so.
You are out from the grip of food when you realise your mind is free to think whatever it wants. It’s not tethered to the body. The mind and the body are separate entities. Your body can be seriously craving and desiring and salivating over something made of wheat and sugar but your mind, the “real” you, the decision-maker part of you can just overrule it with a snap of the fingers.
The snap of fingers that specifically I use is the following phrase:
I DON’T HAVE TO THINK THAT
So when I’m swamped with the energy of The Nudge to keep eating, like I was the other night, I remind myself, “I don’t need to think that”, which automatically pulls me out from under the control of my body and puts me back in the driving seat as the one in charge of my mind (the place we all belong).
You don’t have to accept any thinking you don’t want to, you really don’t. You certainly don’t have to accept those cravings to eat as though they mean something, because they really don’t.
Please, use it; “I don’t have to think that”. As long as you recognise the truth in this statement, it can’t stop those cravings from dissolving in front of your newly empowered eyes.