srcdoeslife: Flashback to last summer. I was...

1st August 2012

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srcdoeslife:

Flashback to last summer. I was happy and fat. I don’t want to be sad and skinny. My ultimate goal is for us to be healthy mind, body and spirit.

That was actually a big mental block for me. Took a long time to uncover it. Not being a lady of a certain age, you have probably not spent much time reading weight-loss/self-help type books. Anyway, one exercise this book had me do was to visualize myself thin in various situations such as at a party or out and about, whatever. And then visualize myself fat in the same situations and so forth. And this is a way of examining what your unconscious attitudes towards being fat and thin might be. So I did not do the exercises very seriously. But about a year later it finally dawned on me that whenever I imagined myself thin, I was always alone in the picture. No family, no friends, no date. I was completely alone. And I realized that actually, the times in my life that I have been the thinnest were also very lonely, sad, difficult times for me. And that I might have been associating thin-ness with all these other issues.
And after that, my plateau broke. That was a couple years ago now, a whole different plateau!

Flashback to last summer. I was happy and fat. I don’t want to be sad and skinny. My ultimate goal is for us to be healthy mind, body and spirit.

That was actually a big mental block for me. Took a long time to uncover it. Not being a lady of a certain age, you have probably not spent much time reading weight-loss/self-help type books. Anyway, one exercise this book had me do was to visualize myself thin in various situations such as at a party or out and about, whatever. And then visualize myself fat in the same situations and so forth. And this is a way of examining what your unconscious attitudes towards being fat and thin might be. So I did not do the exercises very seriously. But about a year later it finally dawned on me that whenever I imagined myself thin, I was always alone in the picture. No family, no friends, no date. I was completely alone. And I realized that actually, the times in my life that I have been the thinnest were also very lonely, sad, difficult times for me. And that I might have been associating thin-ness with all these other issues.

And after that, my plateau broke. That was a couple years ago now, a whole different plateau!

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