Are you more or less constantly thinking about your weight, or whether youre eating or not eating?
Do you find that at times when you start eating that you just cant stop yourself? And then when your clothes dont fit do you decide to resolve that by eating more?
Often as a consequence of this common behaviour is that you will feel bad about yourself and imagine that everyone is thinking how big you are, thus increasing your anxiety about your eating and image, so that you eat more to comfort yourself.
You might not believe it yet there are steps you can take to get you out this self-destructive cycle and turn around the negative feelings that you experience.
When we are in these mind-traps we are habitually repeating thought patterns and acting on them without questioning where they come from and what they do for us.
A simple question such as: What will that do for me? can often be the beginning of understanding ourselves better and our behaviour. Approaching the problem in this way can be the first step towards doing things differently.
It works like this: a bad experience gives you the urge to go to the biscuit tin and eat as many...