Thinking and Eating:

From: Nancy Desjardins

The Three S's: Thinking and Eating:

Your self esteem plays an enormous role in your eating patterns. As I've said before, we use food like a drug to comfort ourselves. If you're feeling insecure, you may reach for certain foods to help you feel better. In the area of how your thinking affects your eating patterns, you're going to need to be brutally honest with yourself.

To better understand how your thoughts can be very harmful, let's take a look at
"The Three S's”:

• Self-image
• Self-talk
• Self-sabotage

The Three S's

To start this discussion, let's first set up a hypothetical scenario. Let's suppose you've been overweight for the past five years - perhaps you've carried around 30 extra pounds of fat for those five years.

Because you need to consume a certain amount of calories each day to maintain any weight, that means that you've been eating too much and the wrong foods for five years. You've been out of control for 1,825 days!

But, think about that again, have you really been out of control? It was you that chose what to put in your mouth. It was you who chose how much to eat. It was you who chose when to eat. So, NO! You've really been in control of your choices all along; you've just been make the wrong choices.

That's the beauty of eating! This is an area of our lives where we can have complete control! In a world where so many things are out of our control, isn't that a comforting thought? I think so!

Now that we've established that you're in control, let's think about how your ego deals with your eating patterns and overweight body. Your ego, or self-image, makes judgments about you - how you look, how you react, and what you do. Those judgments are seldom based on facts. Instead, your self-image measures you against what a "normal" person "should" be and do.

Your self-image can be petty and mean if you let it! It's the source of your self-talk. It says, "You're fat!" and "You shouldn't eat that, but you do anyway!" and "If you were a better person, you could resist that brownie!"

Your self-talk, that little voice in your head, affects what you believe to be true about yourself. It also harms your ability to have faith in yourself and trust yourself in the future. As a result, you might be telling yourself, "I can't lose weight." That's not true! When you choose to eat healthy foods, you WILL lose weight.

That brings us to the next S: Self-sabotage.

Your self-talk causes a phenomenon called a "self-fulfilling prophecy." This means that if you hear something for long enough, no matter how untrue it may be, you will eventually take paths that will make that thing true. That's self-sabotage!

If you walk around with thoughts like, "I'm weak and I can't resist eating donuts every day," you'll find yourself taking actions that lead you to donuts! You'll walk into the break room at work looking for donuts! You'll stop at stores where they sell donuts!

Sadly, self-sabotage doesn't just cause us to make poor choices, it also makes us feel that we are somehow unworthy of success. If you've been longing to be trim and healthy, but you've been telling yourself for years that you're not good at leading a healthy lifestyle, on some level you may feel that you're unworthy of being successful and achieving your goals.

If your S's are really deeply rooted, you may need to seek professional help to get rid of the negativity. However, you may be able to purge those big, bad S's by keeping a few things in mind:

• You ARE in control.
• What you did in the past does not have to be what you do in the future.
• The choices you made in the past were based on the knowledge that you had then. Now that you know better, you can make better choices.

Here's what you can do starting Today:

• Cut down on sugar and see what happens the next few days!
• Start with your Morning Cleanse.

When I say cut down, you may ask: So how HOW MUCH Sugar?

We consume an average of 115 to 160 pounds, or 13,536 teaspoons of added sugar per year. A recent study found that even children as young as two eat 14 teaspoons of sugar per day - more than three times the limit recommended by health authorities.

Our society's sugar addiction has been reinforced and intensified, with everything we eat calibrated to an artificially high level of sweetness that we've gotten used to. Why is sugar put in peanut butter, canned vegetables, prepared dinners, and even in salt? It's not a required preservative. It's used to get you to eat more, so you'll buy more, and so food corporations’ profits increase. 

Health authorities recommend no more than 10 teaspoons (40grams) per day for adults. And yet:

• A small bottle of orange juice has 10.5 teaspoons (42 grams) of sugar.
• Many breakfast cereals have 50% sugar (as much per serving as a chocolate bar!).
• In a bowl of canned tomato soup (approximately two cups), there are eight teaspoons of sugar.
• In a 2/3 cup (180ml) serving of fruit-flavored yogurt, there are seven teaspoons of sugar.
• In two tablespoons of barbecue sauce, there are four teaspoons of sugar.

Millions of calorie-conscious consumers are turning in fear from sugar to eat sweet chemicals instead. If artificial sweeteners are better, why isn't anyone getting thinner?

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