Read Online You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever by Marisa Peer - Free Book Online
Authors: Marisa Peer
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not having to wear jackets in the stifling heat to cover up, buying clothes off the peg from any shop and knowing they will fit and you will look good in them – is a wonderful feeling. Even more so if you have not experienced it before. It’s a feeling you cannot and will not ever find in food.
Enjoying good food is delicious and eating with friends is a wonderful thing, but you cannot find lasting comfort, companionship and joy in food. If you could, believe me, you would have done so by now. Instead, it is more likely that you have become excluded from so much, including activities, relationships, careers and mostly from living a full, long and active life due to poor body image and poor health.
One of my clients had never worn boots in her life because her legs were too large so I asked her to imagine becoming slimmer and then buying some boots, trying on different styles and fashions and looking good in them. I next asked her to imagine being in a restaurant or food shop and trying to find a food that could give her the same feelings she got from imagining wearing the boots. She looked for a long time before she told me there was no food that could match it. Another client had never been able to buy a pair of jeans and when she finally could fit into jeans she was so ecstatic she bought three different pairs. She had never found that ecstatic feeling in any food; she had never even come close to it.
I want you to do one more exercise for me. These exercises are designed to safely change the neural pathways in your brain, which will change your attitude to food. Please take the time to do them rather than just reading them as the effects are very powerful and a key part of this programme. Again, read through and memorise the next exercise then do it.
Close your eyes and imagine you are now at your ideal weight. You look and feel wonderful. You are going into a beautiful store, walking to the clothing department and picking something you have always wanted to wear. It’s your ideal size, you try it on it’s a perfect fit. You look and feel sensational. You feel so good as you catch sight of yourself in the mirror so you buy it and wear it out of the store. On the way out you go to the food hall. I want you to imagine walking up and down the aisles stopping to look at all the bread and cakes moving on to the chocolate then the sandwiches and snacks then the hot food section, take your time and linger over the food that you think is your favourite. I want you to see what you can find food wise that could give you the same feeling as being your perfect size in your perfect outfit.
After a while you will notice there is nothing , no food at all, that can ever give you that feeling. Even if you could find some food that would make you feel as good as the feeling of being your ideal size it would not last, you would have to keep eating it all the time. We’ve already been there, done that, this is the new you.
Most of my clients realise this very quickly, while some spend ages mentally considering all the different types of food until they too realise that there is nothing you can eat, will eat or have ever eaten that can make you feel as good as you will feel when you like your body. It also helps to work out how long you feel good for after eating say chocolate or pizza and how long you feel good for when you love the way you look. Most of my clients tell me that when they eat sweets or stodge they might feel good for a few minutes, perhaps for as long as they can taste the food in their mouth and feel it going into their stomach and then the feeling is gone. It never lasts that long and it isn’t worth it long term. When you like the way you look the feeling will last all day.
Eating gives us instant gratification but it is so in the moment it doesn’t last. Eating junk food is ultimately very unsatisfying because it’s full of chemicals and additives which are addictive and leave us wanting more. Most people
Enjoying good food is delicious and eating with friends is a wonderful thing, but you cannot find lasting comfort, companionship and joy in food. If you could, believe me, you would have done so by now. Instead, it is more likely that you have become excluded from so much, including activities, relationships, careers and mostly from living a full, long and active life due to poor body image and poor health.
One of my clients had never worn boots in her life because her legs were too large so I asked her to imagine becoming slimmer and then buying some boots, trying on different styles and fashions and looking good in them. I next asked her to imagine being in a restaurant or food shop and trying to find a food that could give her the same feelings she got from imagining wearing the boots. She looked for a long time before she told me there was no food that could match it. Another client had never been able to buy a pair of jeans and when she finally could fit into jeans she was so ecstatic she bought three different pairs. She had never found that ecstatic feeling in any food; she had never even come close to it.
I want you to do one more exercise for me. These exercises are designed to safely change the neural pathways in your brain, which will change your attitude to food. Please take the time to do them rather than just reading them as the effects are very powerful and a key part of this programme. Again, read through and memorise the next exercise then do it.
Close your eyes and imagine you are now at your ideal weight. You look and feel wonderful. You are going into a beautiful store, walking to the clothing department and picking something you have always wanted to wear. It’s your ideal size, you try it on it’s a perfect fit. You look and feel sensational. You feel so good as you catch sight of yourself in the mirror so you buy it and wear it out of the store. On the way out you go to the food hall. I want you to imagine walking up and down the aisles stopping to look at all the bread and cakes moving on to the chocolate then the sandwiches and snacks then the hot food section, take your time and linger over the food that you think is your favourite. I want you to see what you can find food wise that could give you the same feeling as being your perfect size in your perfect outfit.
After a while you will notice there is nothing , no food at all, that can ever give you that feeling. Even if you could find some food that would make you feel as good as the feeling of being your ideal size it would not last, you would have to keep eating it all the time. We’ve already been there, done that, this is the new you.
Most of my clients realise this very quickly, while some spend ages mentally considering all the different types of food until they too realise that there is nothing you can eat, will eat or have ever eaten that can make you feel as good as you will feel when you like your body. It also helps to work out how long you feel good for after eating say chocolate or pizza and how long you feel good for when you love the way you look. Most of my clients tell me that when they eat sweets or stodge they might feel good for a few minutes, perhaps for as long as they can taste the food in their mouth and feel it going into their stomach and then the feeling is gone. It never lasts that long and it isn’t worth it long term. When you like the way you look the feeling will last all day.
Eating gives us instant gratification but it is so in the moment it doesn’t last. Eating junk food is ultimately very unsatisfying because it’s full of chemicals and additives which are addictive and leave us wanting more. Most people
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