What is Suppression?

Suppression is one way of dealing with an unresolved emotional issue or feeling with which we may be uncomfortable. Suppression involves indulging in addiction (eating when full), which in turn serves the purpose of putting the feelings or emotional issue firmly under wraps, below our level of awareness, into the subconscious. This takes a lot of energy to put a feeling into suppression. Suppression looses its appeal when we find another way of dealing with those self-same feelings and emotional issues.

Addiction is a Symptom

We must remember that addiction is any activity that enables us to suppress our feelings. From eating when full to shooting heroin, from working too much to smoking, from binge drinking to staying with an abusive partner, addiction is rife within our world today.
This is a problem, but it is also the symptom of a deeper problem, and that is my work - highlighting and dealing with that deeper problem. That deeper problem is what fuels the addiction, it is that deeper problem that causes cravings and withdrawal. It is that deeper problem, that we, as recovering addicts, need to always be aware of and actively working on and resolving.
It is a different way of life I am speaking about here: The resolving of emotional issues rather than the suppressing of emotional issues. The being aware of how we feel rather than being blind to how we feel. This consciousness of who you are and what you want and love in life, and actively being involved in that rather that being actively involved in addiction; be it eating when full or any of the many addictions available today you can give it up and give it up for good, but two things are essential - resolving emotional stuff and being creative ie do what you love.

Until next time, have an addiction free day,

Sofia x

The Emotional Side of Things

The emotional side of things - that is what we are dealing with when we give up addiction and 'food when full' is addiction. That is why weight loss is often short-lived - because we haven't dealt with the emotional side of things that eating when full helped suppress.
Life is made up of things, buildings, trees, cars, houses, kitchens, countryside; then who inhabits these things animals and people. Then we have our emotions about those things, people and animals. So we have the material and the emotional - the emotional is fuelled by  the mind, either felt and we flow with, through, life experiences; or suppressed by drink, drugs or food when full and their ensuing problems.
Getting and staying slim or/and sober is always about how we deal with the emotional side of things.

Till next time
x Sofia

True Slimness and having what you want

To have what you want in life is a goal most of us are engrossed in. However, when you think about it, most of us were brought up with the assumption that you cannot have what you want in life. This is a very debilitating standpoint to work from.
To believe that we have to involve ourselves in work we do not particularly like in order to pay the bills and have a holiday ever year to 'get away from it all' is a very low level way to live.
'Now what has this got to do with being overweight?' I hear you ask.
Well, I have often said, (and it is one of the 40 True Slimness Weight Loss Principles I write about in my book True Slimness) that we eat when full to cope with a life that we are not yet satisfied with. So that implies that some area of our life requires changing in order for it to be in alignment with what we truly desire our life to look like. And if what we desire our life to look like, is something we do not even believe is within our grasp, then we are not going to even try to attain it - when maybe, in truth, it is within our grasp.
So many people believe that the only thing in their lives they need to change is their size and shape, and if you are one of those people. I would ask you to trust that you will get slim and stay slim as a direct result of eating when hungry and stopping when full; and to take your heartfelt desires out of the cupboard, blow the dust off them and consider what small step you could take today - yes today - that is in alignment with those precious desires, because that is part of what makes life worth living not avoiding through eating when full or indulging in any other addiction.
Have a good day
Sofia

   

Emotional Issues - the stuff of binges

Emotional stuff is the stuff of that binge you had on biscuits, cake or whatever your binge food may be. Overeating or eating when the stomach is already full of food is of epidemic proportions in our world today and, like all other addictions, is all about our unresolved emotional stuff. It is all about suppressing or stuffing down our emotional stuff.
So pick one emotional issue that you know you are grappling with today, and ask yourself  - How else can I deal with this? It does not have to be instantly solvable, in fact, much of what we deal with in life is not instantly solvable, and the quick fix of the binge on food does nothing to solve it and a lot to perpetuate it. For whatever we suppress, simply goes on accumulating and accumulating in that back room of our subconscious and will burst out as a temper tantrum or an illness or further problems and as excess weight.

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New Year's Evolution!

Let's have an evolution of our eating patterns this year!

Stopping when full - easy? Not when you've been taught to finish every bit of food on your plate. Are you still obeying this fat-creating and fat-keeping rule?

So how to drop this rule from your way of eating and obey the new rule - stop when full?
Try the below exercise:

 I eat when full because..........

Are there other ways of dealing with these reasons for eating when full?

Happy New Year

Sofia x

The Christmas Season and Food When Full

So Christmas is upon us again, and we have the oppertunity to feel all the feelings that Christmas brings up for us as compulsive eaters. If you are carring any excess weight then chances are that you are a compulsive eater, in other words, you have the habit of eating when full. most people overeat a little at Christmas. Overindulgence is the name of the game big time, but to overindulge regularly is a way to avoid our emotional stuff that we do not really want to face in depth, but in order to be free of it, we have to face it in depth.
How do we still enjoy life or have happy moments if alchol and excess food seems to be a very effective way of keeping it all together? Well, true happiness comes from being aware of how we feel. If I feel sad, I feel that and allow a few tears to be shed or a downright downpour if that is what  is needed. If I feel happy because I meet someone who is a dear friend I feel that happiness in its entirity and wallow in it, milk it, really allow it.
We go beyond judgement of our feelings and just become aware of them, and no longer allow them to be a reason to eat when full or overindulge.
Indulge, yes, but overindulgence is a sign of running away for fear, anxiety, boredom, stress or unresolved issues. So stop when you find yourself craving to eat when full, drink or smoke, and ask yourself - What feeling or issue is this? And given the fact I feel this way what would I like to do now? And get bust doing it if it is healthy - It will lead you on a New Year's journey of discovery that will last long into the coming months, and into a more satisfying and healthy life.
Happy Holidays!
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