Everywhere we look we find information on ways to lose weight, but for a refreshing perspective let’s look at how to keep our excess weight and maintain that painful relationship we have with food.
Here’s How to Stay Overweight:
- Talk about your excess weight as much as possible. Mention how hard you try to change your eating and exercising habits, and don’t forget to point out flaws in your body others might not have noticed. This way you can get that much needed attention even if it’s negative.
- Think about food constantly: What should I eat? When can I eat next? How much do I eat? And, how will that affect my body? Of course, focusing full attention on food doesn’t leave much energy for thinking about other more creative pursuits like your dreams.
- Devote enormous amounts of time on food. Busy your day with hundreds of food activities: counting calories, weighing food, reading labels, shopping for specialty foods and devising healthy ways to cook. This allows little time to do anything enjoyable.
- Look for an easy fix, a miracle cure… maybe a pill, a little surgery, the latest exercise or a miraculous new diet. By looking for a fix outside you, the real cure stays safely hidden.
- Depend on food for emotional help. Use food for comfort, as a reward, to relieve boredom, to express anger or as a punishment. This is an excellent method for literally stuffing down life’s little situations.
- Constantly compare your body with others. This is a wonderful way to remind yourself that who you are will never be good enough no matter what you weigh.
These 6 approaches not only ensure that we stay overweight and maintain our painful relationship with food but will keep us exhausted. There is no telling how happy we could be or what we could achieve if we weren’t focused on food.
To read more about weight issues, look at these articles by Vickie Champion: Use Meditation to Improve Your Relationship With Food, Is Losing Weight Becoming Too Much of an Uphill Battle and Playing Your Part to End Your Child’s Problem With Food.
Thank you for the practical tips. I was never “overweight per se” however, I constantly obsessed about my weight until one day My Teacher, Dr, Ribhi Kalla, said “when your soul develops, you’ll know exactly what to eat.” After several years of studying Ageless Wisdom Teachings, I do not struggle with weight any longer.
With being so busy, I found myself wolfing down breakfast, lunch and snacks in front of my computer and still being hungry. In the middle of the night, this came to me. I practiced it for an entire week and it worked. I gave myself permission to eat whatever I wanted to eat “if” I was sitting at my kitchen table. Wow! What a difference this has made. When I am sitting at the table, I am consciously eating. Even my afternoon healthy snack. Hope this helps someone else.