Still Trying to Lose Weight?

Still Trying to Lose Weight?

I was thinking the other day about all the attempts I made in my pre-teens, twenties and early thirties to lose weight and why I kept trying – over and over again. Why, I wondered, didn’t I just give up?

I remember thinking, this time it’s going to work! This time I’ll have the willpower. This time I have the right kind of support. This time will be different. It never was. That, of course, is a function of diets not working in the long-term, but what I want to get to is this – why did I keep trying? What was it that propelled me to keep trying?

I could answer that question by saying that it was a strong desire to be thin. That I wanted to look good in size 8 clothes; that I wanted to feel good in a bathing suit; or that I was tired of being breathless when I had to run to catch a bus. All those answers are true. But the real answer is this: I knew I wasn’t the authentic, deep down, real me. I knew, although there were good reasons for it, that my extra weight was a way to hide and protect myself from life itself.

I believed that if I didn’t address the issues that my extra weight brought up for me then I would never live an authentic life. So I kept trying one diet after another until I figured out that diets don’t, indeed, work for a life-time and to lose weight and keep it off I would need to find a different solution, one that required me to engage with my body, my mind, my spirit and my emotions to reveal the whole of me. http://www.newparadigmcoaching.com/

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