Using Your Mind to Overcome Overeating
Have you noticed, like I have, that many people who have money struggles also struggle to maintain a healthy weight?
When you get to the heart of the matter, we really shouldn’t be surprised. Both food and money struggles are likely the result of a scarcity mindset. “I can’t purchase what I really want because there might not be enough in the bank tomorrow.” “I’m already full, but I was taught to eat everything on my plate.”
The processed food industry isn’t helping the problem of overeating. Because they want to sell us more and more of their wares, they add chemicals that make their junk taste great, downright addictive. Our brains respond by telling us to get another handful...and another and another.
It might seem like a hopeless situation, but it’s not.
The first step is to realize it’s not your fault. It’s not that you’re undisciplined or lazy or destined to be overweight. Somewhere along the way, you embraced the scarcity mindset -- perhaps from your parents, environmental factors, or difficult circumstances -- and you were fed cheap, empty, addictive “food” that kept you hungry and wanting more.
So, it’s not your fault. There’s no need to feel guilt or shame.
But -- and here’s the key -- you don’t have to be powerless, either. You can find and address the root cause, learn, get to work, and drop the weight.
How? You could get coaching to speed up the process, but coaching is not necessary to find and weed out the root cause. I dropped 150 pounds on my own -- without the aid of a coach, NLP, or Time Line Therapy®. Certainly those tools would have been helpful and sped up the process, but there’s more than one way to cook an egg. You can do this on you own. If I can do it, so can you. You already have everything you need to address and overcome your struggle. It’s all inside of you.
I’ve got some great -- and free! -- resources to help get you started.
Thanks for listening!
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Links from today’s episode:
- Episode 16 -- We learned about at effect versus at cause
- Episode 11 -- Overcoming Unconscious Consumption
- Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
- Episode 15 -- find the Let it Go worksheet
- Do-it-yourself coaching with our free worksheets
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