| By now you should have a pretty good idea that food is not your problem. You are your problem. There are few things that you should keep in mind if you want to stop having a “weight problem” as lots of “experts” like to call it. The only reason they talk about food is because that is all they know. They are wrong. Here are some facts you should keep in mind. 1. FOOD DOES NOT MAKE PEOPLE FAT 2. PEOPLE MAKE THEMSELVES FAT 3. IF PEOPLE COULD HAVE STOPPED PUTTING ALL THAT FOOD IN THEIR MOUTHS THEY WOULDN’T BE FAT 4. PEOPLE COULDN’T STOP PUTTING ALL THAT FOOD IN THEIR MOUTHS AND THAT IS WHY THEY ARE FAT Boy, you really don’t like to hear this, do you? You can’t blame the food. You did it to yourself and you couldn’t help it. What a dilemma? There’s no one to blame. No one to point fingers at. What are you going to do? There’s a lot you can do, but it’s not what you have been doing and it’s not what the “experts” tell you to do. Everyone has been telling you that it’s the food; you need to change your eating “habits”; you need to eat differently, etc. Hey, you knew you were getting fat. You saw it every day. But you still ate all that food, knowing you were getting fat. You’ve been on lots of diets, but sooner or later you gained back all the weight you thought you had “lost”. The reason for this is simple. All diets, without exception, are based on some sort of deprivation, or what you perceive at deprivation. You can endure what you regard as deprivation for only so long. When you reach that point you will invariably do what you feel you need to do; eat what you feel you must eat. That’s why diets virtually never result in permanent change. That’s the inherent fallacy in dieting. They are all based on unacceptable deprivation. How many people do you know who permanently weigh less as a result of a diet – any diet? (Don’t worry. We’ll deal with the low-carb diets in a future Daily Experience. In the long run they are no different than any other diet.) So if isn’t the food and you couldn’t help eating all that food what are you going to do? Is there any light at the end of the tunnel, any help in sight? Sure there is and you will be able to get where you want be. But it won’t be by worrying about food. It will be by focusing on the reasons you felt the need to keep putting all that food in your mouth. That’s your real – and only – problem. After all, if you hadn’t made yourself fat you wouldn’t have to think about “losing weight”. |
