Wednesday June 2nd (day 21) STOP ROMANCING and Dieting

I have really been focusing on my new program as a way of life and NOT as a diet, Laura highlights this in todays thought!! Ways that I think I have been acting is - not weighing myself every 5 minutes, not telling people I am dieting, thinking about my choices and trying to learn from my mistakes.

I have done the diet thing and I know it is a short term cure, I need to heal my whole body and mental thinking and all the bad habits I have been doing for the past 20 years. One good thought is I have been able to resist Mc Donalds, cant remember the last time I was in the restaurant and although my family ate it last night i only pinched about 10 fries! THAT IS HUGE FOR ME (we all have our individual vices and Mc D's is mine)

So here is our thought for today

DAY 21 - Practice Eliminating Romantic Thinking and Going on a Thought Diet (Five Seconds)

Relating to food by romanticizing it is one of the reasons we have issues with our weight. We can change this dysfunctional relationship with food by learning to think about it in a different way, and that is to not think about it or think about it pragmatically. Being pragmatic about food means using the mind to decide what to have for lunch based on what and how much the body needs nutritionally. That's how the Wise Witness uses the mind to think about food.

This is radically different from how the egoic mind (the mind that's run by conditioning and the Child) thinks about it. The ego's thoughts are imbued with romance, fantasies, dreams, imaginings, and feelings about food.

Thinking about food in a romantic way may have become so ingrained that we aren't even aware of it. This is a big part of the problem. Once we see this, we can take the next step: not imagining what a food would taste like and not thinking about food romantically anymore. If we stop thinking about food romantically, our relationship with food will change and so will our weight.

I definitely have craved and romanticized about food and then treated me to a special food for doing something good or having a hard day. I am not doing that now haven't in a while (at least 21 days), continuing to see this as an amazing personal development! It is definitely getting easier to resist the foods I should not be eating and I am openly discussing my feelings about food with my husband and son!