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When you read the title of this article, it is likely that many different things come to mind. If there is one thing that the title does not refer to it is dieting.
Been there, done that, no thanks!
My challenge to you in this new year is to make a resolution to acknowledge your own feelings, and to acknowledge yourself. This means accepting what you are feeling and thinking, and who you are, as well as accepting your body as it is today, all without judgment.
I read a story in the book Do One Thing Different by Bill O'Hanlon. (A real gem, by the way.)
The author recounts the following.
Some years ago, I was teaching a class helping people get off the diet roller coaster. Part of my talk involved accepting one's body just as it is currently and not waiting to lose weight to feel okay about oneself. One participant said she knew what I was talking about. She had recently been paging through a scrapbook and had come across a picture of herself five years before. As she looked at it, she realized that she liked how she looked and how much she weighed a that time, which was about 15 pounds less than she weighed currently. She was thinking that if she could only get back to that weight, she would feel good about her body. Then she remembered where and when the picture was taken and how terrible she had felt then about her body. In that moment she realized that it was more important to find self-acceptance where she was now - otherwise, she might look back five years from now and think the same thing about where she was now. Not accepting herself was a key element in her gaining more and more weight, as she would eat more in an attempt to alleviate her depression about her body.
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I used to believe that you had to change your eating habits and exercise behaviors to lose weight but it's bigger than that.
You have to change yourself from the inside and it will manifest on the outside.
As the inside changes take place you may feel the need for a method or program for the outside aspects of the change.
But remember Weight Watchers or any other comparable program is only one half of the equation.
Visit healthy-eating-support.com to learn more.
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