Nothing could have prepared for the speed at which I lost all the troublesome weight that had hounded me for years. Years, I tell you.
It wasn’t a diet, it wasn’t counting calories or points or peas on my plate. It happened automatically and I now realise, inevitably, once I’d reached a new level of understanding about the nature of habit.
Without this understanding I’d never have dropped the weight and frankly, neither will you.
Your habit (of eating too much) is no grander than a feeling that comes over you periodically throughout the day. The urge comes on for another sandwich at lunch. Then again at 3pm when you’re kind of antsy and bored with work. 5pm may be another trouble spot, given that it’s still a couple of hours until supper. After supper with a spot of Netflix – another time when that urge to eat crops up. I’m right, right?
Breaking your habit, or in other words, not listening to those urges until they’ve eventually gone from your life, is no harder than rolling your eyes at those feelings (those urges) that come over you periodially duing the day.
All you have to do is roll your eyes at the urge to eat another sandwich, and you won’t make one. Not giving in and having a microwave mug cake with Netflix in the evening is as easy as rolling your eyes at the feeling gnawing away inside you.
If you witness the feeling, meaning you witness yourself experiencing the urge, it completely loses its power to control you. Witnessing it, then, is the equivalent of rolling your eyes at it. And your habit, which is nothing more than the feeling of the urge to eat, is broken for good.
Do it a few times and your habit is gone for good.
You now have in your hands the tool that will prevent you from ever eating habitually again, and the power to make your excess pounds melt away. The question is – are you going to use it?