| It’s the kids. They’re driving you crazy. They make so much noise. They’re always doing something. They never sit still for a minute. They’re always asking you to do something. You can’t get a minute of peace. You have to drive them to their lessons, to their sports activities, to their friends’ homes and so many other places that you can’t even keep track of them. You’re always on the move. What happened to time for yourself? You’re becoming frazzled. You need something. You decide that you need something to eat. Yes, that’s the ticket. Some great tasting food in your mouth will make you feel better and will help you to get through the day. You relish just thinking about what you’re going to eat. Even thinking about the food makes you feel better. Hey, wait a minute. Why are you doing this? You weigh 30 pounds more than you want to weigh and here you are contributing to your problem. You’ve tried to “lose” that 30 pounds for years now and you promised yourself over and over that you’re going to weigh 30 pounds less and here you just want to put more food in your mouth. What were you thinking? How did your thought process even take you into the realm of food? Why did you think of food? Is that the only way you can deal with your day’s frustrations? Do you really want to have all that food in your system? Why didn’t you just say to yourself that you would take a walk or read a book? Why does it always come down to eating more food – the one thing that you know you shouldn’t be doing? Now that you sit back for a minute and think about it you realize how self – destructive eating the food will be. However, you find that you want to eat the food anyway. You know that the food will be in your mouth for only a very short time and that you will be sorry that you ate the food but you are going to do it anyway. Logically, you know that eating the food is not what you want to do but emotionally you feel you need the food so you’re going to eat it. Doesn’t that tell you what the real problem is? You know exactly what to do. You just can’t do it. You’re trying to satisfy your emotional needs with food. Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing? Be honest with yourself. You really must understand the problem before you can make it go away. If dealing with your kids causes you to eat food that you know you shouldn’t be eating if you want to weigh 30 pounds less, imagine all the other circumstances in your life that cause you to eat, e.g. put food in your mouth, when logically you know you shouldn’t be doing that. Spend a few minutes thinking about all those circumstance that cause you to eat too much. Now you can understand why you weigh what you do. It really has nothing to do with food itself. It has to do with what putting food in your mouth means to you. Now that you understand the real problem you can make it go away. You won’t need food to satisfy any of your emotional needs. You will decide what to eat for logical, not emotional, reasons. |
