Ep 40: More Joy, Less Gain Over the Holidays
11/01/21 | 24:51 | Episode 40
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It has become inevitable.
Come holiday season, we are mentally preparing for overeating, and for weight gain. For disappointment, when we step on the scale after. It must be, you say. You can envision yourself feeling bad, feeling like a failure.
We behave like tyrants with ourselves. But, we say, we deserve to feel a little pleasure after working so hard over the past several months. Problem is, that pleasure is false pleasure.
How can you feel pleasure that is immediately followed by suffering, and fear. Is this real pleasure? No, it’s a surefire way to be miserable.
You can eat without fear, and still lose weight. It’s not all black and white. We’re so good at all or nothing thinking, and that leads us to make all the wrong decisions during the holidays. What if it doesn’t need to be this way?
It would surprise you how easy it is to achieve this. It’s what I talk about in this episode, in which I reveal:
How I learned to not associate food with supreme pleasure and joy.
How you can learn how to redefine pleasure and distinguish between real and false pleasure.
How visualization can help you in your weight loss journey.
Strategies on banishing the fear of saying no and disappointing your friends and family.
How love and gratitude can help you to change your relationship with food.
The questions you need to ask yourself to get over all or nothing thinking.
Stop feeling like food is your salvation. Freeing yourself from that black or white thinking will clear up mental space that you can use to get that pleasure elsewhere.
Without deprivation, and without dieting.
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