Rigid, the
skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
— Virginia Woolf
This is the time of year when we contemplate making changes in our lives. For many, these changes involve diets and gyms. Unfortunately, most people start these
changes in the New Year with a big burst of enthusiasm and are usually done by February. Gyms report by Valentine’s Day, the crowd has cleared and only the dedicated remain.
Before you rush off this January to start the latest cleanse or diet, ask yourself these questions.
- Have you ever found sustainable results from any diet or cleanse?
- Have they ever addressed the deeper reasons for your overeating?
- Have they taught you stress management, ways to cope with your feelings and emotions, or how to deal with your impulses, cravings and binges?
- If they haven’t, why do you continue to set yourself up for failure?
Emotional eating is the number one reason most people fail on diets. The other reason is the diet itself sets you up on a diet, binge/overeat, diet cycle that can last for years. And since most people don’t ever lose the
weight they gain in these cycles, the longer they stay on the dieting roller coaster, the fatter they get.
The best thing you can do for yourself is to get off the dieting yo-yo cycle and begin to learn how to eat intuitively through mindful eating. Dieting is an external system full of rules. Mindfulness is about
become more inner focused and aligned with your inner wisdom. In this way, you learn to honor your body’s signals and you begin to live in alignment with your true wants and needs.
