Have I got a formula for you.
Eat lettuce + workout daily = one stone less on the scale GUARANTEED for your holiday (assuming you’re not zipping up your wheelie suitcase this second).
I can personally guarantee you will lose a stone with this formula in, ooh, about 3 – 4 weeks. You’ll also feel light-headed every time you stand up, having to reach for a countertop to steady yourself. Oh, and you’ll also be fucking miserable. If you don’t mind no one wanting to be around you because you’re just so crabby all the time, it’s a go situation. If, however, you do value things like happiness, friendships, being invited to places, people liking you, it’s not. FYI – turning up to dinner with an iceburg lettuce in your handbag, or a refusal to eat because it’s “after 6 – and you no longer eat after 6”, is not a good look.
The error is in the goal. It’s daft. Also illogical (sorry, I love you).
The goal is never to lose weight, at least it shouldn’t be. The REAL goal is to free yourself from the clutches of food so that you know, deep down in your root chakra, that your path to being thin is clear. As in, there’s no obstacle between you and the size you want to be. It’s literally just a case of putting one mouthful in front of the other until that smaller size emerges.
It’s so tempting to try and think about crash dieting in the run up to a holiday, especially a sun-drenched one. I get it. But if you’re thinking in terms of diets, I promise you, you’re setting yourself up for nothing but prolonged unhappiness and bingey behaviour, regardless of what happens with the number on the scale. Diets do not cause long-term weight loss, they cause long term food obsession.
If you want an easier way, you have to focus on recognising the source of your experience of food and eating and cravings. It’s thought. Which is fabulous because thought has zero causative power (all thought can do is put an uncomfortable feeling in your chest). If thought is the source of your experience of food and eating, can you also see that this means food has zero causative power too? Food can’t make you salivate over it, nor move towards it with a fork in your hand. I’ll say it again, thought is the thing doing the heavy-lifting and making you want food, making you eat food and then, yes, making you taste food.
So if your thoughts have no power over you, and the physical object of food has no power over you, the only thing in this entire universe that can make you eat is YOUR WILL. Remove your will to act on your yearnings to eat (by recognising they are meaningless thought) and what are you left with? Healthy indifference towards food and an end to your dieting dramas.
I hope you can see how powerful you are.
Stay salty, bitches xx