Suppressing a feeling through eating when full is an inappropriate and damaging-to-ourselves activity. It causes us to gain weight and suffer health issues related to excess weight.
From my years of compulsive eating and my experience of recovering from compulsive eating I draw these conclusions on how to lose excess weight for good.
- Loving and taking care of yourself as regards emotions and feelings has not been taught appropriately or accurately via our families or the diet industry.
- Often fat is a layer of 'protection' against life and its 'knocks' - so in endeavoring to lose excess weight, we, on a subconscious level, don't want to 'lose' our layer of protection. so we have a subconscious sabotage going on that needs to be addressed before weight loss can be successful and permanent.
- Uncovering and addressing the previously hidden fears around being slim and the slim lifestyle we feel we would have slim, is necessary.
- Emotional work is key in weight loss - permanent weight loss. If you are not prepared to feel the feelings that eating when full helps you suppress, you will be overweight forever.
- It is not as hard as you think, but your ego will fight you every step of the way, because weight loss this way, is the death of the ego.
- The death of the ego simply means the birth of your creativity, your uniqueness, and a life deeply rooted in unconditional love, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the death of the ego you emerge as a permanently-slim-you: a you who no longer suppresses his/ her emotional stuff by eating when already physically full of food.
