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Module 2.1



You Are Giving Up NOTHING And 
Gaining EVERYTHING!

This is the vital secret to losing weight: 

When you stop eating all the old, dead processed  comfort foods that are making you fat, you MUST realize that you are really giving up NOTHING but gaining EVERYTHING.


Right now, I accept this way of looking at losing weight will seem stupid to you.

However, if you’ll honestly consider the idea, it will change forever your approach to losing weight. 

You'll begin to enjoy it!

Here's the idea:
When you give up all the....

useless, 

unnecessary,

high-sugar, 

dead, 

trashy, 

and processed...... 

'foods' you used to love and find comforting, you are really giving up NOTHING but gaining EVERYTHING.

 

Now your first thought will be: 

“This is stupid. Of course, I’m giving up something. For a start, what about that lovely cake. or that nightly fast-food ?”

Yes, on the surface level, it SEEMS that you are ‘giving up’ the cake etc.  

However, try the following experiment – and see if your perspective changes.

 

The Experiment

 

In your mind, (or better still in reality) pick up a ‘lovely cake’. 

Or whatever food you believe you will miss the most.

Now, allow yourself to eat it, but.......eat it VERY, VERY SLOWLY.

This is important. 

Do it  very, VERY, slowly.


With full CONSCIOUS attention on each slow bite.

Moment-by-moment.

Again, eat it slowly, PIECE-BY-PIECE.

With FULL AWARENESS and CONSCIOUSNESS.

You must let yourself be fully conscious of what you are doing, munch-by munch.

Pick up the cake slowly….,

….slowly crunch it,.....munch it…..

…… and swallow it with full conscious AWARENESS of what you are doing.

Now repeat this process slowly….all the time, just concentrating on the mechanics of eating the cake until the cake is eaten. 

Don’t let your mind wander.

Now, if you do this exercise properly, you’ll be amazed!

 
After one or two bits, you won’t want to eat anymore. The first one or two bites are the most enjoyable – this is where you experience and enjoy the sensation and flavor of the food – and the rest is actually unnecessary. 

 

It’s just your mind eating it out of HABIT or training. 

You DON’T GET ANYTHING AT ALL FROM IT.

This has been proven in hundreds of detailed experiments.   


The Swedish Experience

In fact, in a fascinating experiment in a Swedish university, a group of students were asked to eat all their meals blindfolded.

In other words, this forced them to concentrate FULLY on their meals – and on nothing else. They had no distractions.

The results were incredible!

Most only needed to eat a tiny amount of the food they would usually eat to feel full.  

The implication is clear: A lot of our eating is unconscious, just like smoking.

Our bodies don’t really want or need all this food to be full.

 
But because most of us are not PRESENT when we eat – we are either watching TV or reading the paper – we are not LISTENING to our bodies – but just eating out of habit!

 

We all eat unconsciously. 

 

Like a robot!

Mechanically. 

Unconsciously. 

WITHOUT awareness.

Why not do the experiment on yourself for a week – and see what happens? 

Simply blindfold yourself when you eat.  

You’ll be amazed.

 

Now….back to our ‘lovely cake’.

We all believe we MUST have it.

That we NEED to eat it NOW or…we’ll be miserable.  

But if we actually eat it with full awareness, MUNCH-BY-MUNCH,  we’ll REALIZE that the cake is not really what we are LOOKING for. 

It is no big deal.

We all know this instinctively ourselves: how many times have you eaten a simple treat like this – and afterwards thought:

“Why did I do that? I didn’t really need that. It hasn’t done anything for me. I could easily have done without it – YET I ate it?”

What is happening is this:

When we can’t eat our familiar ‘treat’, like the cake, we get this empty feeling of lack, even a feeling you could describe as loneliness – a feeling that gnaws away at us.

Now if we don’t make a big deal of this feeling, just accept that we will have it for a little while, it will easily PASS AWAY.

However, at some unconscious level, we believe that if we don’t respond to this empty feeling and eat the cake - we’ll be miserable.  

We believe that if we don’t act and eat it, the feeling will stay there and we won’t be happy.

So we start to fight with ourselves and begin to feel miserable.  

The problem is not the cake, or the takeaway or the drink down in the pub. 

If you fail and eat the cake –you’ll quickly realize you didn’t REALLY need it.

 

You just believed you HAD to have it to GET RID of this empty feeling. Or more accurately: you believed you’d feel bad if you couldn’t eat it.....

 


Next: The Psychology of Dieting

 

 
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