| Today we’re going to review why you weigh why you do. You weigh 30 pounds too much. You can’t stand weighing what you do. You say you would give almost anything to weigh 30 pounds less. You know your life would be so much happier and you know you would feel a lot better and you know that weighing what you do isn’t healthy. So that should be easy enough. Just “lose” 30 pounds. Well, that’s over, right? Not a chance. You’ve tried it a million times. You “lose” weight for a while and then, for reasons you can’t seem to explain, you gain it back. Well, if you wanted to weigh 30 pounds less and you “lost” weight, why did you gain it back? Why didn’t you just stay at the lower weight? You liked weighing less so why return to a weight that you don’t like and makes you unhappy? Seems crazy, doesn’t it? You were where you wanted to be and you couldn’t stay there. Did you ever really think about why you, and pretty much everyone you know, always gain back the weight they “lost”? You really should. How many people do you know who have permanently “lost” weight and now live at a lower weight? That means that a person used to weigh, say 150 and now weighs 120-permanently. Can you think of anyone? If you’re having difficulty with that one why do you think that there are so few, if any, people who can permanently lower their weight? After all, on paper it’s easy. Just eat less. Put less food in your mouth. But you can’t do that and neither can anyone else you know. Don’t you find it strange that such a seemingly easy thing is virtually impossible to do? By now, however, you know the reason. “Losing weight” is a flawed concept. Anyone who tells you to “lose weight” is just fooling around. It’s really important to keep in mind that your weight is just a symptom. You can’t just make a symptom go away. You’ve got to eliminate what causes you to have the symptom of weighing what you do. Weight itself is not your problem. The chances of you permanently “losing weight” by tinkering with the symptom is very close to zero. You weigh what you do because you have an emotional need to keep putting food in your mouth. As a result you are emotionally comfortable weighing what you do. It is now your emotional comfort zone. No amount of logic is going to change that. If logic could cause you to weigh less you would have done it a long time ago. If you want to permanently weigh less you have to eliminate the emotional reasons that cause you to keep putting all that food in your mouth. Unless, and until, you do that you will always weigh what you don’t want to weigh. You will weigh what you emotionally need to weigh, which is a lot more than you want to weigh. But now you’re going to eliminate your emotional need for food, which will enable you to weigh what you want to weigh. |
