Thinking About Fat Begets More Fat
Having a problem with the scales, or what they’re telling you? Kathy Fratti writes from the Philly ‘burbs that even her energy therapy friends say there’s no help for it but to exercise:
"They say that whatever you train your thoughts on grows bigger. And that’s certainly true of the number on my bathroom scale.
The fatter I get, the more I think about being fat, and the next thing I know I’m fatter than the day before. There’s no mystery about how this works.
I think, “Spring is coming and I’m going to have to take off this big Irish sweater,” and then I’m rifling through the pantry for the last box of Girl Scout cookies to distract myself from the stress.
It is the dead of winter, yet I am in full bloom. Broken zippers. Popped waistband buttons. I can’t remember the last time I tucked in my blouse. This is what I get for using my George Foreman grill — designed to drain fat from meat — to toast corned beef Reubens or cheesy quesadillas.
I needed to make a change.
So, I shared the increasingly bad news from the scale with my friend Nancy who teaches about balance and wellness through an energy therapy called Reiki. She’d have some wise counsel…
For the record, I disagree with Nancy, Kathy’s energy therapy friend who practices Reiki, and goes on to say that energy modalities don’t work for weightloss. Ever try EFT? TAT? ZPoint? You can get more information here on how to do these for yourself.
I’m working on my own weightloss issues with energy modalities. While it’s slow and sometimes can be frustrating, getting to the root of the emotional problems that stand in the way of our losing weight, shucking a job or a relationship that doesn’t wok or anything else we have been "failing" at. For the record, to quote the old NLP presupposition that The Certified Energy Coach Program has adopted: "There is no failure, there is only feedback"
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