I’ve been having a great few weeks since I last wrote. I have really been enjoying learning more about FasterEFT, and getting my Practitioner Level 1 Certificate. I’ve been enjoying using FasterEFT with friends, clients and myself… especially with myself- as a method to stop food cravings and to change my attitudes towards food, myself and my body.
In fact, I’ve been having such a great time, my eating habits have changed, I’ve given up drinking Coke Zero and stopped eating a whole heap of sweet treats and I’ve been exercising more. All in all, I’ve been feeling happier, “lighter” and more carefree. I can see that even my posture has changed (I guess I’m less weighed down by the weight of the world) and I was feeling pretty good in myself.
I was feeling so good in fact, that I thought I’d surely lost some weight… so I decided to weigh myself just to check. Now I must tell you that I haven’t weighed myself for months. I decided quite a while back that I was no longer going to let the number on the scales decide for me if I was having a good or a bad day! (You know the story… the one where the number has gone down, you’re happy, but if it had gone up, you feel terrible and the self-loathing kicks in!!!) So I’m not sure what possessed me yesterday to break my resolution and stand on those scales…
Well actually, after some reflection, I have realised why I weighed myself yesterday. It was because I’ve been researching some different marketing techniques and one of the marketing “gurus” I’ve been listening to said something the other day that I couldn’t let go of. She said something like “you wouldn’t buy weightloss products from someone who was overweight because they have no credibility”. So I decided that to feel like I was someone you’d want to listen to on this blog and to feel like I’d proven myself enough to continue to share “Stop Weighting, Start Living” program, I wanted to be able to say that since I started to use FasterEFT I have lost weight.
Now I can see this was a momentary loss of my senses. I mean if you ask people why they want to lose weight they will say things like:
- To be healthier
- To feel more attractive
- To have more energy
- To improve my confidence
- To look nicer in my clothes.
If you remember how I started this post I said I was feeling good, I had more energy and I was feeling happy in myself. I even thought I looked nicer in my clothes. So really, looking back, standing on the scales was not necessary, because I was already on my way to meeting my goals of feeling better about myself. I was a living example of how someone can “Stop Weighting” and “Start Living”. FasterEFT really was making a difference to my quality of life, no matter what the scales said!
So back to the scales… Unfortunately the number on the scales was not what I’d been hoping for, and this did throw me into a fluster for a while, but unlike previously, it was not the start of a downwards spiral of self-hatred. With the help of some tapping (FasterEFT) and some wise words from the wise Debra Wylde, I quickly realigned myself with my personal aim to be in a space where my body image/size/weight no longer stops me from living a fulfilling life. (And as the name of my “Stop Weighting, Start Living” program suggests, this is what I’m wanting for my clients too).
Before stepping on the scales I really was starting to live this kind of life, so I’m renewing my resolution to avoid the bathroom scales. I agree wholeheartedly with Stephen Phillips who said:
“In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.”
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