Recently my fiance, Nick, and I have embarked on eating less. Our reason is to lose weight we have put on over a period of time. Weight that we’ve put on because we’ve gotten older than we were when we met 5 years ago. Weight that we woke up one day and said to each other, “What the ___ is going on?” It’s as though we’ve been in a time warp and didn’t realize that weight had been applied to our bodies! We are now working out at the gym, taking healthy potions to help us lose the extra fat and eating healthier and eating less. 

When I started eating less I realized:

1.) When I wait until I’m hungry to eat, I appreciate the food better. Everything tastes better.

2.) When I eat less at each meal, I’m not stuffed and uncomfortable. I feel as though I’m not hungry anymore and I feel more appreciative of what I ate and how much I had been “given” to eat. I’m more grateful for food in general. I notice how grateful I am.

3.)When I eat less it feels like my stomach has shrunk.  I can’t eat as much as I used to. This feels good.

4.)I realized that eating has many purposes. I realized I was eating because of habit sometimes. I realized I eat to make myself feel “rewarded” for a hard days work. I could see that I ate to not feel deprived. As a matter of fact, I felt and still sometimes feel deprived if I can’t eat whatever I want. I noticed that this deprivation felt young. I realized that I can change that and I’m okay with that if it means I’ll be healthier and will lose unwanted fat.

5.) I’m realizing that this change is now a life style not a diet.

6.) I feel more aware of the act of eating and what that means to me in a new way and I like this new feeling I have around eating.

I have no idea what everyone else goes through when they are dieting. In the past, when I was a dancer and much younger I suffered from mild bulimia. I think I know, mildly, what that is like for others.

I don’t know what it’s like to be obese. I don’t know what it’s like to not be able to gain weight. I do know that every magazine for as long as I’ve been alive, has articles on new diets. I do know that I’ve always been weight conscious and have always danced or worked out to keep in shape with few exceptions. I don’t really believe in dieting as a temporary solution to an on going weight problem. I do believe that requires a life style change for the rest of your life. A change in what a person eats that will take them into their future with ongoing results that will shift their weight in a way that becomes a life style as opposed to a short term “diet”. Dieting can be an up and down roller coaster experience of weight loss and weight gain without acheiving satisfactory results. Fad dieting can defeat your purpose and make you gain MORE weight in the long run, not to mention your health can be damaged in the interim.

I have fasted in the past. What I learned was that I really appreciated each and every morsel of food I put in my mouth when the fast ended. Each taste of each sliver of apple was beyond description. (Nirvana, comes close. ) Then over time I got back into my old eating habits, which weren’t very bad, I did notice that I had habits of eating. Them came the blur of “just eating” until I’d wake up and notice a few extra pounds and cut back for awhile. Sugar was and is so addictive. Pasta was so addictive. I used to eat a dish of ice cream, now I can eat a spoon of ice cream and be satisfied. Now, if I want a dish of ice cream I have it, once in awhile.

“Everything in moderation,” is what my alcoholic Dad, used to say. (He was a great man but he couldn’t drink in moderation.) I try to follow that advice. The “everything in moderation”, advice.

My diet is for the rest of my life. I’ll move towards eating less in the name of really tasting and appreciating my food. I’ll eat healthier in the name of nourishing my body temple not destroying it. My life is changing because of these decisions and the changes do not have much to do with losing or gaining weight. I’m discovering that these changes are changing how I look at my life, how I am grateful for life. The greatest realization is that changing how, why, when and where I eat is waking me up into new ways of thinking about life. I’m de-mystifying my eating habits to myself and discovering more about who I am. I love it and let it go.

For more on this subject go to: Wild Woman’s Path section on this website.

-Cynthia Brown is a conscious trance channeler for over 20 years. Her psychic abilities provide a pure source of insight, guidance and knowledge. Cynthia can also be reached through “commenting” on this website, and is available for private, over-the-phone readings. Contact her for scheduling and rates. You may also email her at: telleroffortune@yahoo.com
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