Natural Eating is such a positive and empowering process as you simply listen to your own body and give it what it wants when it needs it. What is often difficult about this is that those of us who have always tried to lose weight through dieting, don't often trust ourselves to make the right choices. We can follow a weight loss programme, but once we stop the programme we tend to drift back into our old eating habits and slowly put the weight back on again over time.
This is why I have ensured I support myself through Personal Development. By challenging and improving myself I have gained confidence and increased my self-esteem, replacing the negative eating habits with positive empowering habits. Natural Eating is not a programme that you stop, it is a process you incorporate into your life which lasts forever.
Once I started believing in myself, I got the confidence in other areas of my life as well. I started to dream about the things I loved, and what I really wanted to be doing in my life, until eventually I was able to determine that sharing Natural Eating with others was in fact my "true purpose".
Often, when we get caught in the diet/weight loss trap, this becomes our main focus, to the detriment of everything else. By focusing on our passions and dreams and identifying our true purpose this becomes the most important thing in our lives, so eventually we can eliminate the weight loss issue completely.
The catalyst to finding my "true purpose" was to study Napolean Hill's "Think and Grow Rich". There was a passage in the book which said, "....often our true purpose is based on an experience we've had in our own lives". That was it, I knew I could share my experience of depression and bulimia to help others.
Similarly, by starting to think about what we truly love doing it can often lead us to our "True purpose". What were we born to do? Why are we here? What legacy do we want to leave behind?
Another strategy to find it, is to imagine that money was not an issue and we had no other restrictions on us, "What would we be doing?" It is normally the first thing that comes into our head.
If we start focussing on our passions and we are continually working towards something we really love then issues with food, weight loss and binge eating simply fall away. These things are no longer our focus as we now have positive rewarding things to focus on. In addition if we do find our true purpose we feel needed and get tremendous reward, satisfaction and fulfilment from helping others.
So start following your heart, begin thinking about your dreams, passions and true purpose in life and you might just find that binge eating is no longer an issue.
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