Everything we think about how to achieve weight loss is wrong. Like setting out to control our calorie intake, cutting out whole food groups and wagging our fingers at sugar – all bollocks. And all that time we spend time seeking out lighter versions of our favourite dishes, like cloud bread and weird cakes made with baked beans and bananas? It’s energy that could be better spent elsewhere.
There’s only one way to fix this “issue”, genuinely and permanently, and it’s to see with molten hot clarity that our physical experience of food is created not by the food and forced on us, but created by us, inside of us, by our thought.
Meaning when we’re chewing on a cupcake made from beans and bananas, our experience is individualised and arbitrary. Keeping this understanding up front and centre is what’s going to save you.
You don’t experience food directly. You take a bite of your thought, you chew on thought, and it’s your thought that creates the sensory experience of each bite. Which is why some people are happy to eat tripe, and I am not.
The food is doing nothing to you. It’s a lump of energy sitting on a plate with no texture, no flavour, no evil charms to force you into submission. It’s nothing. The lusty salivating and yearning to keep eating and eating and eating is being generated inside of you, on the fly, by your own thought (which is in the habit of telling you to do that).
Once you see this it becomes very easy to laugh at your own craziness, put the fork down, and stop being obsessed.
Until you accept this, however, the struggle will remain seemingly real.