YOU HAVE NOT HAD A CHOICE ABOUT WHAT YOU WEIGH

It’s time to focus on the real problem- which is you, not the food. Stop wasting your time thinking about what foods you should or shouldn’t be eating. It’s pointless. The fact of the matter is that you can’t help eating the way you have been eating for so long. You say that your weight causes you great pain. You can’t stand what you weigh. You would do almost anything to weigh 30 pounds less. Yet, you can’t get there or stay there. Why do you think that is? You don’t slam a door on your hand or hold your hand over a fire. Why don’t you do those things? You don’t do them because they would cause you great pain. Being 30 pounds overweight also causes you great pain and your weight is with you all the time. You know it’s bad for your health. You know that you will probably live longer and be happier without those 30 pounds. Why can’t you avoid being 30 pounds overweight?

You can’t do anything about your weight on a permanent basis because you have been eating for emotional, not intellectual, reasons. Intellectually you know that weighing 30 pounds too much is unhealthy and dangerous and makes you unhappy. Even though you know all those facts, you are still stuck at that weight. You simply have not had a choice. The concept of “losing weight” is flawed. You have always gained back weight that you thought you had lost. If you could permanently lose weight, you would have done it long ago.