Guilt is a biggy for many people who are on the diet bandwagon. How many times has someone said to you “Don’t eat that, you will get fat”. Has this statement in ground itself into your subconscious to be there forever?
Do you still feel like you will be overweight forever if you have just one piece of cake or a chocolate bar.
Our Belief System
Statements of this type have helped forge our beliefs that food is either good or bad. These beliefs may be the reason why we are holding ourselves back.
Along with this goes fear and guilt which many of us are now associating with food. How did it get to this?
How did it become so complicated – life is all about opposites, both positive and negative and of course there will be times when you will feel guilty about certain things in your life, but do we really need to associate this negative emotion to food because you eat a piece of cake when you are ‘not supposed to?’ Why do we do this? It is just cake.
Start Over.
On the DietDitch program we are all about leaving our limiting beliefs behind. We are ditching the guilt and the fear, moving forward to where we will choose health as our first priority.
We want you to get off the treadmill of being on a diet and all the negative connotations associated with this. The guilt will be ditched as a result of this letting go. We are going to stop attaching guilt to food.
How Will we do This?
Let it happen naturally by identifying the reason why we are overeating. It really is not about the food. Work on the emotional energy around overeating by accepting the responsibility once and for all. Don’t blame anyone or anything else.
Now claim your power back - I have an idea for you. I would like you start to loving your body. Go on – your body is not so bad and in fact it is a wonderful piece of nature.
Then I urge you to write in you journal 5 comments of gratitude in regard to your wonderful body each and every day.
Let It Go
We have all heard the saying ‘what you resist persists’. We often get so hung up about what we are eating, what we weigh, why we haven’t lost weight. It is now time to let these negative thoughts go.
This is why on the DietDitch program we don’t want you to weigh your food, do excessive workouts, keep food diaries, or lose weight quickly. These processes are not going to serve you.
We want you to feel excited about what you are doing – sort out your stuff, ditch your guilt, and accept yourself to the point where you are ready to step into the new you.
Goals
Your goal may be to let go of the guilt forever and we have used a couple of scenarios previously which we will revisit here.
The first one is to put the guilt you are feeling in a helium filled speech bubble above your head – like an old comic book, and let it go forever.
Or secondly pack all your guilt into a suitcase, put it in a taxi and have the driver take it to the airport and put it on a plane. Don’t have your return address on the case.
Change
I know some of you will be thinking this is just lip service talking about letting go of guilt, goals, and starting over. I agree there may be deeper issues that need to be addressed for many of you.
However we are all adults and we have the choice to change. And I repeat, let’s ditch the guilt and stop the negative self talk. We can do this.
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