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a restaurant and they brought a bowl of sweets with the bill I would put some in my bag or pocket, I just didn’t feel I had to eat them. One day I just chucked the whole lot out as they had been accumulating in the tin for so long.
I didn’t ever imagine I could be indifferent to chocolate or cake. I was a true chocaholic. Once I could not even keep it in the house without eating it all, I even ate all the chocolate decorations from the Christmas tree within a day of hanging them up. At my daughter’s christening when all the guests had left and we were clearing up my au pair and I decided we should immediately eat all the cakes that were left over so they were out of the way and could not tempt us. Having to eat them to be free of them meant the cakes were more powerful than me. Now I can eat chocolate but I don’t need very much of it, it doesn’t taste that special any more because I no longer tell myself it’s special and after one or two pieces I have had enough. You will find that you can do this too, not just with chocolate but with all junk food.
Remind yourself of this fact when you come across foods you have told yourself are hard to resist:
• I will always have another day to eat this.
• It’s not free and it will cost me to eat this.
• I have all my life to eat cake/pizza. Looking the way I want to look is more important right now.
When You Eat Less You Get to Eat More
Another way to look at it is to see that by restricting your diet you actually get to eat more. This is a long-term view, but it’s important. By choosing to eat differently you will live longer and live a fuller, healthier life. A longer life means you get to eat more than if, in the short term, you eat anything and everything because you hate feeling deprived. If you enjoy eating and you want to eat a lot, think about the years ahead of you and all the opportunities you will have to eat the foods you love rather than eating them in large quantities right now. When you make these small adjustments you are not eating less and suffering more you are actually eating more in the long term and not suffering at all. You will be free of feeling hungry, deprived or different and instead of feeling that you are fighting a never-ending battle you will know that you are already winning.
This may sound extreme but it is a reality. For example, I was scheduled to see a client after he had his stomach stapled. The day before his surgery he went on a bingeing feast and died on the operating table from heart problems. If he had eaten less he would still be here. He lost his life because he believed he loved food too much to cut down and that supposed love of food cost him maybe forty years of eating since he was only forty when he died.
My favourite comedian, John Candy, died aged forty-three because of his weight problems, and my favourite singer Barry White died aged only fifty-eight due to weight-related issues. Luther Vandross died from weight problems aged fifty-four. The soul singer Rick James was being considered for Celebrity Fit Club USA and died only weeks before filming because of a weight-related illness. We could have enjoyed so much more of them and they could have had a longer, fuller life if only they had taken control of their eating.
Not everyone can be naturally skinny. Some people are built bigger and will gain weight more easily, especially if they keep eating the wrong type of food. Even if that is you, you can still be a healthy weight and have a respectful, healthy and happy relationship with food. Limiting certain foods is not the same as going on a diet. You don’t have to go hungry or count calories. You can eat very well and eat very healthy food while shedding weight. You simply have to choose to make other choices.
STEP FIVE
Think Thin, Get Thin
If you want to change your actions you must begin by changing your thoughts. As John Drained said, ‘We first make our habits and then our habits make us.’ If
I didn’t ever imagine I could be indifferent to chocolate or cake. I was a true chocaholic. Once I could not even keep it in the house without eating it all, I even ate all the chocolate decorations from the Christmas tree within a day of hanging them up. At my daughter’s christening when all the guests had left and we were clearing up my au pair and I decided we should immediately eat all the cakes that were left over so they were out of the way and could not tempt us. Having to eat them to be free of them meant the cakes were more powerful than me. Now I can eat chocolate but I don’t need very much of it, it doesn’t taste that special any more because I no longer tell myself it’s special and after one or two pieces I have had enough. You will find that you can do this too, not just with chocolate but with all junk food.
Remind yourself of this fact when you come across foods you have told yourself are hard to resist:
• I will always have another day to eat this.
• It’s not free and it will cost me to eat this.
• I have all my life to eat cake/pizza. Looking the way I want to look is more important right now.
When You Eat Less You Get to Eat More
Another way to look at it is to see that by restricting your diet you actually get to eat more. This is a long-term view, but it’s important. By choosing to eat differently you will live longer and live a fuller, healthier life. A longer life means you get to eat more than if, in the short term, you eat anything and everything because you hate feeling deprived. If you enjoy eating and you want to eat a lot, think about the years ahead of you and all the opportunities you will have to eat the foods you love rather than eating them in large quantities right now. When you make these small adjustments you are not eating less and suffering more you are actually eating more in the long term and not suffering at all. You will be free of feeling hungry, deprived or different and instead of feeling that you are fighting a never-ending battle you will know that you are already winning.
This may sound extreme but it is a reality. For example, I was scheduled to see a client after he had his stomach stapled. The day before his surgery he went on a bingeing feast and died on the operating table from heart problems. If he had eaten less he would still be here. He lost his life because he believed he loved food too much to cut down and that supposed love of food cost him maybe forty years of eating since he was only forty when he died.
My favourite comedian, John Candy, died aged forty-three because of his weight problems, and my favourite singer Barry White died aged only fifty-eight due to weight-related issues. Luther Vandross died from weight problems aged fifty-four. The soul singer Rick James was being considered for Celebrity Fit Club USA and died only weeks before filming because of a weight-related illness. We could have enjoyed so much more of them and they could have had a longer, fuller life if only they had taken control of their eating.
Not everyone can be naturally skinny. Some people are built bigger and will gain weight more easily, especially if they keep eating the wrong type of food. Even if that is you, you can still be a healthy weight and have a respectful, healthy and happy relationship with food. Limiting certain foods is not the same as going on a diet. You don’t have to go hungry or count calories. You can eat very well and eat very healthy food while shedding weight. You simply have to choose to make other choices.
STEP FIVE
Think Thin, Get Thin
If you want to change your actions you must begin by changing your thoughts. As John Drained said, ‘We first make our habits and then our habits make us.’ If
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