Have Your Cake and Eat It

To have your cake and eat it depicts the best case scenario. So how does that relate to compulsive eating and carrying those extra pounds?
Well, I hear again and again from folk - 'I just love food and that is why I carry extra weight'.
I am here to tell you that you can still love food and be slim. Remember - What gets you slim, keeps you slim. Eating when hungry and stopping when full gets you slim. And eating when hungry and stopping when full keeps you slim. I've been naturally slim for twenty years and it is all because of that simple act of eating when hungry and stopping when full.
So back to our cake, I love chocolate cake, but I only eat it when I am hungry.  And this is what I advise you to do also, with the help of the free 'Am I hungry?' download from my website
www.trueslimness.co.uk

Another important point I would like to make here is the fact that is the answer to this question - Do we really enjoy food when full? Sure when I was a compulsive eater I loved food when full because of the momentary good feeling it gave me, but the after effects of being bloated and an over full stomach and resulting weight gain and how horrified I would be when I stepped on the scales to see yet more weight went on, was not so much fun.
So food when full is not so enjoyable, but food eaten when genuinely physically hungry, is very enjoyable, especially when it is exactly what you want to eat. If you fancy a tuna sandwich when hungry, and eat a tuna sandwich when hungry, it really tastes sooo good. Now that is loving food. Food when hungry is a pleasure, and we don't have to give it up in order to be slim and healthy.
So in this way you can have your cake and eat it.

Until next time
Sofia

Work You Love

All of us at one time or another have experienced the 'quiet desperation' of not enough money, and maybe even the panic and fear around not having enough money. It is very similar to the fear of  'gaining even more weight'. If you suffer from both overweight and poverty, then this indeed is a very difficult cross to bear. How on earth can we heal, overcome, grow out and away from such demeaning circumstances that we often feel we have no control over?
No matter how hard we try, and what methods we try, the situation improves little, or not at all, or has even gotten worse.
I feel globally this is what we are facing - How to deal with the issue of excess weight on our body and the issue of lack of finances not being something to push us into work we loathe.
As I have mentioned in previous blogs, creativity otherwise known as work you love is an essential part of getting free from addiction and staying free from addiction, and it starts with being able to handle the fears of dealing with questions such as - How do I provide for myself and my family? How do I get into work I love? How can I make the work I hate be more tolerable? How can I navigate a way to leave this work I hate? How can I navigate a way into the work I love? How can I deal with, this one aspect of work, that I dislike so I can hang on in there for a few more months to save for that training course I want?
I love the Hay House Radio Show - 'Messages From Margaret' - in it, Margaret often gives her callers affirmations that start with the phrase - Why is it so easy for me....?
For Example: Why is it so easy for me to bring in a large financial income from work I love? Why is it so easy for me to deal with that difficult person? Why is it so easy for me to find and keep work that I love? Why is it so easy for me..... Fill in your own thoughts to do with what you are struggling with right now in your life. This is yet another tool that helps us cease turning to food when full.

True Slimness Workshops to start Wednesday Evenings Albert Road Methodist Church, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales 7pm - 8pm  Drop -in £3

True Slimness Lunchtime Workshops 1pm - 2pm on the first Monday of the month starting Monday September 1st, then Monday 6th October and Monday 3rd November at Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath Street, Hampstead, London

For Further info contact: 07530 531 655 / 02921 155 512

Until next time x Sofia