Weight Loss Results: How To Stop Being Afraid of Food Right Now

To have effective and permanent weight loss results, you need to stop being afraid of food. I know this because I used to be afraid of food. For decades, I was afraid to eat sugar or flour because I was told by somebody in authority that it was a trigger. Just like a gun, you know, pull that trigger and there’s no going back and there’s me completely out of control again. I wholeheartedly believed them because I thought they knew more than I did and so I believed that once I got triggered, I had no control over my body or my mind.

I was afraid to be in the same house with cookies and candy and any kind of sweets because I believed that I just couldn’t help myself, that I would have to eat them because they were simply there.

I was afraid to eat anything or be around food because I believed I was helpless against this immense pull that food had on me and powerless to resist it and that I would end up bingeing if I even had just one bite.

I also believed that I just couldn’t stop myself because food had all the power and I had none. But food only has the power you give it.

To stop being afraid of food right now, know that food is just an object

Now I’m not afraid of food at all because I know that food is just an object. Food is just a thing that goes where you tell it to go.

Food has no emotional component at all except for what you give it. Food doesn’t feel happy or sad or angry or frustrated. Food isn’t in charge of how you feel either. Whatever feelings you’re giving to food are simply your choice, and you can always choose differently.

Food has no power either except for what you give it. It can’t make you do anything. It can’t order you around. It can’t make you feel less than. It can’t make you eat it. It can’t give you strength or courage or a belief in yourself or anything else you might think it can do.

Food simply has no connotations at all except for what you give it. So if you aren’t happy with your relationship with food then, I say kindly, change what power you give it.

To stop being afraid of food right now, remember you always have choices

Whatever you do with your life is your choice. Sure, it’s true that sometimes you don’t have great choices, but you always have choices. And it’s your job to make the best choices you can for yourself with the information you have available to you at the time.

You get to choose what you put in your body and when and how much. Unless someone is force-feeding you, that’s a choice that’s always squarely up to you.

You also get to choose what you give you power to:

• Will you give your power to somebody else?
• Or to a substance like food?
• Or to a behavior like an eating disorder?
• Or to anything else?

Your power, along with your body are the only two things you ever truly have. Do yourself a kindness and don’t give control of either one of them to anyone or anything else.

To stop being afraid of food right now, choose to be powerful

At any given moment, you can choose to be powerful or you can choose to be powerless. Thing is, you can’t be both at the same time. So you have to choose.

If you choose powerless, then you choose to sit around and wait for somebody else to come fix it or maybe you slide into self-pity or perhaps you get to playing the victim. And all those things will do is stick you fast and keep you stuck for as long as you believe you’re powerless.

If you believe you’re powerless against food then you keep yourself stuck in a cycle where you believe food has all the control and you have none.

But if you choose to be powerful, then you make different choices, ones that are the best for you so you can move forward with your life.

If you believe you have power over food then you decide what foods go into your body and how much and when on your own terms. If you believe you have power over food then you no longer live in fear of food.

To stop being afraid of food right now, take your power back

The only way to get your power back is to take it. So take it back.

If you’ve given your power to someone else or to something else, including food, you can take it back anytime you choose to.

You might tell yourself you’re stuck. You might believe that wholeheartedly. You might live out the story that you are helpless and at the mercy of whatever is around you. You might even argue against your ability to be in control of your own life.

But here’s the truth: you are powerful because you are the authority in your own life and you get to choose how you want to live it. So choose to only give food the only power it has, which is fuel for your body and that’s it.

Get off the diet-go-round. Get on with your life.^®

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My weight loss transformation & how it can help you stop being afraid of food right now

You absolutely can break the diet cycle. I got free. Your life can be that way too.

I made my own path because I needed to get myself out of the crazy-making behavior I was having around food. I needed:

• no more dieting.
• no more restrictive eating.
• no weighing and measuring food.
• no off-limit foods.
• no more judgment around food.
• no more trying to figure out healthy eating or just what healthy foods to eat.
• no more judging my self-worth based on the scale.
• no more you’re-not-doing-it-perfectly diet rules that were only fueling my constant thinking about and obsession with food.

I needed to stop: searching for weight loss tips, wondering how to lose belly fat fast or how to lose weight fast, worrying about how to eat healthy or finding healthy snacks for weight loss, coming up with yet another healthy eating plan, trying to have quick weight loss, or forcing myself onto yet another weight loss diet. What I needed instead was to find, out of all the weight loss programs out there, the best weight loss program for me. Turns out, the best way to lose weight was to find out what works for me and do that.

• I’ve lost 160+ pounds naturally by simply trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and eating intuitively).
• I have maintained that weight loss for 9 years and counting by trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and intuitive eating).
• I no longer have any eating disorders, including bulimia (bulimia nervosa) and binge eating disorder (compulsive overeating).
• I no longer have a fear of food.

Just imagine what you could be doing with your life if you’d just commit to having your own before and after weight loss success story. You could be: following your own dreams and reaching your own goals, cultivating your own passions, and making both your inner and outer worlds a more blissful and peaceful place.

I got that for my life. I want it for yours. I will teach you how.

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Let today be the day you make peace with your body and with food.

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