This thinking and behaviour are incredibly difficu...

2008-11-24T17:44:00.000-08:00

This thinking and behaviour are incredibly difficult habits to break. There is a desperation to "get there now" which I totally understand. You spoke of the "myth of arrival" in your prologue (I think?) which rang an enormous bell for me: the notion that, as soon as I'm thin, everything will be ok, happiness, fulfilment will follow. Perhaps, deep down we all know that this idea is rubbish and that if we get there and things aren't miraculously cured, then what? So we stick with the familiar old battle - better the devil you know?

So many times I have thought the same thing as your client - "health can wait, weight loss for now is more important". Well, now I'm 41 and health has to be now or never, but it's easier to make a statement like that than to actually follow through. I shouldn't drink so much diet coke, wine, eat so much cheese, blah blah, yet I continue to do so. Why?

The all-or-nothing mentality is a killer here too - oh well, I've ruined it now. Eat the rest of the packet/drink the rest of the bottle of wine, etc.

Well, hopefully I'm one of the ones you can help despite 20+years of doing the same thing, in cycles.

Sophie

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