What do you weigh when you get on the scale?

We were all born and raised into a reality where most of our environment thinks, talks, goes on a diet and is preoccupied with what is “allowed” and what is “not” to eat. The language of eating that dominates everywhere is a language of “healthy” / “unhealthy”, fattening / low-calorie, “war on obesity”, a constant struggle with food and ourselves, which involves a lot of guilt and a sense of frustration, which leaves us in a “loop” of endless preoccupation in food and weight. Sounds familiar right? It doesn’t have to be that way.

As long as our focus is on the weight, it will eventually, just go up and up. And this is a fact! The more our world is busy with diets, the fatter we get. And our fight against ourselves, our body, food – which becomes our enemy, only grows and intensifies. That’s why it’s important to shift the focus away from the weight and say goodbye to the device we’ve become addicted to and has become the factor that determines how we feel about ourselves, for better or for worse.  

Want to break free from the obsessive preoccupation with food and weight? Manage your eating and not feel like the food is managing you? Stop automatically turning to food as a solution to feeling bad?  

The answer is not in the menu. Food is a legitimate thing. We eat to live and we are allowed to enjoy the food we choose to eat. Our thoughts about food are what make us fat. Therefore, the first thing we want to look at are the thoughts that govern our eating.

If, for example, I had an amazing week and gained weight, what does that mean? 

That nothing is worth?! Am I terribly angry with myself? that I’m not serious…?! Unable to stick to the resolutions I set for myself in eating? Am I irresponsible? Or maybe hopeless? That I’m allowed to “go down” on myself and hate my body? I’m a lost cause…?

Notice how in one moment the good feeling of a great week I had disappeared. How as a result of the internal dialogue created around the weight, I experience a decrease in self-worth, feelings of guilt, failure and cheapness.  

In conclusion: The change is in our thinking patterns. My body and I are a relationship! The improvement begins with our agreement to say goodbye to the language of diet and the dependence on weight. Yes, it requires openness and flexibility of thought – to put question marks on our beliefs on the subject that ultimately affect, in a critical way, our self-image.

My tip – Decide on changing the internal dialogue. In the face of a negative thought, bring an alternative sentence, more forgiving and less judgmental. Decide to stop criticizing yourself and your body. Giving up the use of weight, allows you to respect the body as it is.

26.6.2022 – Body cleansing workshop combined with close supervision focused on emotional eating led by Efrat Claudine, trainer, lecturer and group leader at the Mitzpe Alomot Health Farm (limited to 14 women only)

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