You are eating and drinking your greens, eating the right fruits and whole grains, limiting the processed stuff and red meat. Still, you are at an unhappy weight, dissatisfied in your body. Your frustration at being “stuck” may be causing you to have trouble thinking about much else. You restrict all day, overeat, maybe binge, at night. You spend hours beating up your body in the gym, look for the newest fad diet, wishing you could drum up more willpower.  Sound familiar? It does to me. I’ve been there. And I can tell you it is NOT about willpower or the newest diet craze. It’s about looking at what truly nourishes us and that is not always what we put on our plates.

Marc David, teacher, mentor and founder of The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, writes that our behaviors with food are merely the doorway to looking at our challenges with what truly nourishes us. Opening that door and looking at who is showing up to the table allows us to see how we are influenced by our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, stressors, how we perceive pleasure, and our deepest desires. These factors can positively or negatively affect how we digest, assimilate and metabolize the food we eat.

When we remain locked into the limiting beliefs and behaviors regarding food and our bodies, we are avoiding opening the door to freedom from the struggles of compulsive eating. If you are putting off opening the door because you fear what is on the other side, ask yourself these questions –

“Who will I be when I trust myself not to devour the entire contents of the refrigerator?”

“Who will I be when I can eat what I want when I am hungry and stop when I am full?”

“Who will I be when I can feel the feelings that I fear will destroy me and discover they won’t”

If this resonates with you and you want to further explore these questions and more, reply to this email or call to set up your Breakthrough Discovery Session where we will discuss your goals and challenges, enabling us to lay out a plan for you to renew and re-invent your relationship with food and your body, re-discover the AMAZING that awaits you when you stop pouring all of your energy into dieting and start pouring it into living.