Starfire, without going into a lot of boring details: I have tried the strategy you mention, and I’ve had partial success with it. However, when I get sufficiently stressed, I tend to go to great lengths to break past all the barriers I put up. And I’ve been sufficiently stressed a lot this spring.

Glenn: I’d be grateful if you dropped by again here and let us know how it goes!

It may be a little too early to say this, but I think the breakthrough I mentioned a couple of comments back is bearing fruit. In the past week I’ve started a new diet and sleep schedule, and the weight has started to drop away most satisfactorily, and a couple of other health issues I had (which I did not mention in this post for fear of bogging it down too much) have cleared right up. It’s really been remarkable. Once I’m convinced these gains are solid, I’ll be writing a lot more about it.

Thanks for the post, I appreciate it. I feel I am in the same place, everything points to me just “doing it” in terms of money. I am slowly learning, I feel my issues are around removing all the negativity I grew up with around money. I have a strong reaction to just do it… I feel if I knew what to do I would have done it a long time ago.

On the weight issue, again, I have had a very similar situation. Last Fall, I found Radiant Recovery and Kathleen DesMaison. Her story is long, but focuses on people who are born with a sensitivity to sugar which effects their lives completely. She has put together a program to heal your body and brain chemistry, and once it is healed she also has a system to lose and maintain your weight.

She says once your brain and body is healed, you begin to feel radiant (hence radiant recovery). I know from the outside looking in this sounds like another diet schtick. But I had major changes happen in my life since I started and feel better now then I have in a long time, and I haven’t lost much weight (that will come later). But Kathleen has a whole system set up that is really incredible.

Best Wishes
glenn

I’m also someone who has been overweight for most of my life. There was a point, however, when I started getting my inner world in order, where I did lose a lot of the weight (I never got down to my goal weight, but I managed to lose 25kg of it and kept it off for a few years).

Unfortunately, life travelling in the cycles as it does, the past couple of years have seen me neglecting all the inner work I’d begun back then, and probably not surprisingly, seen a lot of my life (including the weight) go back to what it was before I started… which is, to be frank with myself, frustrating as all hell.

On the positive side, if I’ve done it once, I know it’s possible; and hopefully, in line with the classic story of walking down the street and encountering holes in the path, this time around, it’ll either take me less time to climb out again when I fall into the same hole I’ve fallen into before… or I might even manage to walk around the damn thing

All of which is a long-winded way of introducing the one thing that I think made a difference for me the first time around when it came to getting to a healthier weight… which was doing whatever I could to make it easy for myself to do what was good, and hard to do what wasn’t. See, much as I’d like to have massive willpower and the ability to always do-what-needs-to-be-done-whatever-it-takes kind of mentality (much as I respect people who do), that’s not me. One of the things I learned about myself is that if it’s not easy, I don’t do it.

That’s not a particularly pleasant realisation to have about oneself, but it is what it is, and unpalatable as it may be, it at least leaves me with a tool I can use. So I ended up arranging my life so that going to the gym every day, and eating fresh stuff on a daily basis, were actually easier than the alternative… and yeah, that’s when the weight started coming off.

I’m not sure if that’s helpful (or just something you’ve heard a million times before), but I know it worked for me, and it’ll be what I start trying to do again this time around as I struggle to slowly, step by step, get my life back into balance.

Blessings

Starfire