Welcome back!

These are the “grands” assessing Santa.  Do we know this guy or not?  Even skepticism keeps us excited at Christmas, do you remember?

I’m blogging in December about how I am able to enjoy the holidays without kvetching about food or weight gain, and about how I got to this wonderful place. Look to the right: there’s a category called “Christmas” where you can read all of December’s posts. My dream is that on New Year’s Eve, because you follow this blog and you tell your overweight friends to read it too, we’ll all be better prepared to move into 2010  with a basket full of right ideas to help us think differently about this overweight phantasmagoria.

My last post was about how physical things cannot be permanently.  This is the reason diets and exercise are not ultimately successful.  Today, I’m going to explain to you how mental things CAN be changed, and changed permanently.  If you are a yo-yo dieter, this will help you to understand the whys of it and the wherefores of how to quit.

Here are the mental mistakes I made that made me fat:

1.  I believed I’d inherited a fat gene.

2. My named rhymed with Fatty.  Must be true.

3. I was raised to be obsessed with my body and its size.

4.  My folks said I was fat.  I believed them and thought it for myself.

5.  I became paranoid about being fat and finally manifested it in high school.

6. The best way to stay fat is to diet.  I’m living proof.

7. I had a harsh self-judgment about the size of my body…all the way from size 12 to size 3x.

8. I perpetuated my condition through repetition and ignorance.

Those eight reasons are the Cause of my overweight, not the food I eat or the exercises I do or do not do.  It’s a matter of thinking fat into existance and then perpetuating it from inside my own mentality. When I change any of those items above, and I keep it changed in my mind, my body automatically changes and the changes are permanent because I am no longer thinking it into existance.

You may be thinking “Oh, God, if this was only true, how easy it would be.”  It is true.  It is this easy. These hard-won ideas are my Christmas gift to you.  I hope you print them out, review them with regularity, and grant yourself some blessed relief next year.

Cookies, fudge and puddings!

Pat

Tags: Christmas, holidays, weight gain

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