Hi ,
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes
and the father of irritation. ― Steve Maraboli
We live in an instant gratification society and unfortunately, letting go of dieting and practicing mindfulness and mindful eating is not a quick process. One of the greatest frustrations I experience as a coach is seeing someone get impatient and quit before they’ve
fully given mindful eating a chance.
Many people want to see big changes very quickly. Most have been long entrenched in a dieting mindset or bad habits for years and adopting a new mindset or lifestyle doesn’t happen overnight. Of course, I explain this to my clients at the very beginning but when people come up against their impatience and resistance to change, the latter sometimes wins.
Inner change often comes slowly. It’s really more of a gradual releasing of old patterns and an organic unfolding of a new way of being. It has its own rhythm and timing. It’s not something that can be hurried along and forced.
Real change requires surrender: you must surrender to the process and allow time and room for things to happen.
Change is often subtle at first. Often, people are so used to focusing on everything that’s wrong that they can’t even see what they’re doing right. Someone may think
they’re failing because they’re still bingeing and not even notice that they reduced their bingeing from every day to once or twice a week.
Sometimes things get worse before they get better. I can’t tell you how many times someone has called me and said, “This was a horrible week. I’m doing really badly.”
Then, after finding out what’s been happening with them, I conclude they’ve actually had a great learning experience and are in the midst of a big breakthrough. Often, through their difficulty, they have discovered what has really been behind their emotional eating. Real change often comes from chaos; it’s not all tied up neatly in a pretty bow. Our pain, struggles, and biggest blunders bring our greatest
learnings.
Letting go of dieting, changing your lifestyle, and adopting a mindful or intuitive eating practice requires a commitment to long-term change. Your brain may come up with many reasons why you should run back to the nearest diet, but
you have to get real with yourself. Have any of those diets given you what you’ve wanted?
Sure, you may have lost some weight at first, but eventually, you’re right back where you’ve started or even heavier. Many people who come to me have
spent the majority of their lives in a losing dieting battle.
If you’re the impatient sort, you need to ask yourself, “How much more time are you willing to invest in a losing game?”
Time waits for no
one.
Where will you be in 1 year, 5 years, or 10 years
down the road if you keep on the way you’ve been going?
Though we don’t like to think about it, there are always consequences to our actions or lack of actions.
The sad thing about time is it can never be recovered.
The antidote to impatience is acceptance and staying in the moment. Impatience is caused by wanting things to be different than they are. “I want this weight gone by tomorrow” or “This has to happen a certain way.”
If you can let go of your expectations and need to control, you can flow along with the process and after a slow beginning, you will build momentum and things
can start to move along pretty quickly.
Catherine L. Taylor
P. S. If you're ready to make peace with food, I'd love to be your guide. How you do food is how you do life!
Break Free from Overeating, Make Peace with Food, and Lose Weight Naturally!
- Are you obsessed with food, weight, and or dieting?
- Do you turn to food for emotional comfort? Do you eat when stressed?
- Are you putting off your happiness until you lose the weight?
- Have you lost weight only to gain it back and then some?
- Do you want to make peace with food and your body?
- Are you ready to get off the dieting roller coaster and achieve permanent weight loss?
- Are you tired of the dieting yo-yo cycle?
If you're like most people, you've probably tried willpower and dieting to lose weight. Unfortunately, for most people this is not enough. The reason willpower and diets fail is because most people overeat for emotional reasons. Emotional eating is a response to various environmental and emotional triggers. These triggers range from stress, exhaustion, uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, procrastination, boredom, and
a need for pleasure and comfort.
The How You do Food is How You do Life Telecoaching Program is designed to get at the core issues of what triggers overeating. It provides you with solid strategies to overcome the reasons why you turn to food.
The 12 week program consists of 6 live telecalls held every other week and weekly assignments that will transform your relationship with food, get you off the dieting hamster wheel, teach you ways to deal with your stressful and sabotaging thoughts and emotions, teach you how to eat mindfully, and allow your body to lose weight naturally without dieting.
You will also learn how to set up a self-care routine that isn't time consuming so that you can start your day calm, centered, and nurtured. You will become more mindful and peaceful in all areas of your life because "how you do food is how you do life!"
So what does the phrase "How you do food is how you do life" mean?
People who eat overeat often don't realize that their issue with food and weight isn't the real problem. It's only a symptom - a symptom of how they are living their life. If your life is stressful, then you will turn to food to cope with that stress. If your life lacks pleasure and excitement, you will turn to food looking for pleasure and excitement. If you try to control and restrict your food, you will become obsessed with food and overeat. You eat how you are. When you're at peace with
yourself, you become at peace with food. How you do food is how you do life!
The How You do Food Is How You do Life – Weight Loss and Emotional Eating Group Coaching Program is starting on Thursday, Sept 24, 2020.
Telecalls will start at 6:00 PST/9:00 EST. There will be a call every 2 weeks and weekly assignments and handouts.
Cost is $297.
A payment plan is available. You can make 2 payments. The first is a payment for $197 and a second payment for $100, 30 days later. Contact me to arrange a payment plan.
Can't make the calls, date or time?
No problem. The calls are recorded and emailed to you the next day along with the handouts and assignments.
If you can’t seem to lick your emotional eating habit on your own, and want to learn a non-diet, mindfulness-based approach to weight loss and overcoming emotional eating, then this group is for you.
As an added bonus, you will receive a 2 free private coaching sessions with me, a $195 value!
Space is limited as class size is kept small to provide personal attention.
A payment plan is available.
If you're interested in this, please email me at catherine_taylor@secretsofaweightlossmaster.com or just reply back to this message and I will set up a plan for you!
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