Are you chained to a scale?
All my life, I wanted to lose weight. Even when I was thin, I started needless dieting to be thinner. I had no idea that dieting actually started me on the road to getting overweight. Yes, it’s exactly as the Law Of Attraction explains: the things where you put your focus (“I don’t like my weight”) was what attracted the very thing I didn’t want: to get overweight.
Once I started dieting, I focused on what I couldn’t eat. I felt guilty if I ate chocolate, pizza, potato chips, French fries. The crazy thing is, when I wasn’t dieting, I could eat all of those foods, and never gain an ounce! I was a perfectly healthy, athletically built young woman. But I wasn’t perfect. I wasn’t happy with myself, and had low self-esteem. My focus was to be what I wasn’t – or just thinner, and it actually took over my life.
After every diet (I tried it all), I’d gain back the lost weight, plus an additional couple of pounds. Little did I realize, it was my body trying to protect me from starving. I got disgusted, blamed myself and my body, and waited until I could no longer stand myself enough to try the newest miracle diet that would finally solve my weight issue.
For decades (I was really brainwashed- probably like you) I believed that regaining the weight was my fault. Either there was something wrong with my body (my metabolism, my thyroid, SOMETHING!) or that I actually didn’t follow the diet close enough (not complete discipline- but I HAD followed it!!). It was making me crazy: how could this be happening to me?!
During another bout of dieting (aka now it’s a “lifestyle change”- in other words a permanent diet) of doing the Paleo, or ancestors eating plan, I had the good fortune to hear Matt Stone, from 180Degree Health, interviewed. The Paleo plan wasn’t working for me – I hadn’t lost an ounce, despite following everything exactly. I was again feeling like a total failure – but not a “loser”.
Matt explains in his book 12 Paleo Myths, why the Caveman’s eating plan, otherwise known as Paleo, didn’t work. And he further clarified how my dieting, cutting calories and over-exercising was actually causing my weight gain, and slow metabolism!
And the truth shall set you free!
After decades of trying every imaginable diet, Paleo IS the LAST diet I will ever try. Because I have finally learned the TRUTH. Dieting does one thing: it slows down your metabolism, makes you feel physically worse, and you eventually re-gain weight for all your hard work and deprivation. NEVER AGAIN!
I’ve also learned that my obsessive mindset to lose weight was attracting the negativity that made me feel worse about myself. And now, I am healthier and happier. Join me, and make peace with your body and food. And maybe unintentionally, just by being happier and healthier, your weight may self-adjust. And maybe it won’t. But you won’t spend one second worrying about it! It’s like the Serenity Prayer says: Accept the Things You Cannot Change. That’s when the magic begins.
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