We
Are All Afraid of Pleasure!
Yet - this is where most of us will
still have a BIG problem.
We just can't reconcile the idea of
pleasure or enjoyment with losing weight.
Pain! Suffering! Deprivation! Depression! And
bleakness! Sure - we can associate all them with
losing weight!
In fact, we are convinced that is the true
nature of weight -loss. Or any great
achievement.
But.....it's not.
That's just a product of our past history.
The ingrained, historic idea we were all
brought up of 'No pain- No grain'.
The old idea that we MUST
suffer and struggle to achieve anything
worthwhile.
And buried in all those ideas was the further
crazy belief that if we were enjoying
ourselves in any way- then we must be doing
something wrong!
The truth is: We all have very funny ideas
about pleasure.
Deep down, buried in our unconscious we just
feel it is 'bad', 'wrong', .......not just right
in some way!
We feel if we are enjoying something, we
should feel guilty or we should stop or limit
our pleasure.
But pleasure is good ....and natural to
us.
But most of us still can't accept
that:
Weight-loss
Survey
In a recent UK health survey you can see this
hidden belief clearly at play.
In the
survey, most respondents felt something
must be WRONG because they WERE ENJOYING their
new healthy eating regime and easily losing
weight!
And they were also enjoying all the
lovely food they were encouraged to eat.
So they felt something must be...... WRONG!
Isn't it EXTRAORDINARY!!
They were ENJOYING it - so, naturally
something must be wrong!
Why? Because we keep forgetting that good food can be good for you - and
enjoyable.
For example, pure dark, organic chocolate is
good for you.
A beautiful glass of red wine is good. All
can be fully enjoyed and savored for their color,
taste and beautiful aroma.
The secret to enjoying them and all good food
lies in eating them SLOWLY and with FULL
CONSCIOUSNESS.
This is the great Golden Rule of
enjoyable weight-loss
We mentioned this in an earlier Module, but
eating SLOWLY with full CONSCIOUSNESS on your
eating will TRANSFORM how and what
you eat.
It is an art, whose loss is one of the major
causes of obesity today.
Virtually
nobody in our culture is PRESENT when
they eat.
Their
mind or attention is on a paper, the TV
or talking with someone. |
So they are eating like robots.
They have no idea WHAT they are eating, HOW
MUCH they are eating or WHAT it tastes like.
Most of us could be eating anything.
We are eating, making ourselves fat out of
PURE blind habit.
In our practical 42 day E-mail Weight-loss Program,
we will literally nag you to death, every
day, to focus and concentrate
fully and CONSCIOUSLY on your food when you
eating.
You'll need to train yourself to do this
every day for the first 21 days to start
to see the extraordinary benefits of this.
And.... you'll realize, after a while how
difficult it is.
When you eat - you must switch off the TV,
put away all papers and distractions- and just
be fully present with your food, FULLY and
SLOWLY swallowing and enjoying each mouthful.
And what will happen when you do this?
For a start, you'll start TO taste your food.
And really ENJOY it more.
Good food should send tingles of pleasure and
joy through your body.
But after a while, you'll start to notice
something even more extraordinary: you'll
automatically start to eat less.
And...you WON'T have to force yourself
to do this - it will happen naturally as your
body will just automatically signal that it is
full.
And because you're now present in your
body, not lost in the TV, you'll be more aware
of your body and what it wants and needs.
The main point we want to make here is
that you can still find great joy and delight in
good, natural food when you are losing weight.
The key is not to deprive yourself of food or
stop yourself enjoying good food but to cut out
all the useless, dead, processed foods
that you don't need - and that are .destroying
you.
In our Practical
42 day Weight-loss Program, based on the
ideas outlined in this course , we'll list all the foods you'll need to cut
out.
But, also more importantly, we'll be focusing
mainly all the great foods that you can still
enjoy and take great pleasure in.
Remember our key mantra:
Unless you
really enjoy doing something- you won't stick
with it. |
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