You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever by Marisa Peer Page B
Authors: Marisa Peer
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your body the messages you want it to respond to:
• I am choosing to eat like an adult, to eat the foods that are right for me.
• I love the feeling that I am in control now.
• Everything is available to me now, including being my ideal weight.
• I can and do choose what to eat and what I weigh.
• I could have junk food but I am choosing not to.
• Instead I choose to be slim.
• My mother is not in control, I am and I willingly make the right choices for me.
• Biscuits are for babies.
• Cakes are for children.
Emotional Eaters
Amy was an emotional eater who had an addiction to cakes and biscuits and ate them daily. She ate them even more when she was unhappy, sad or bored. Her mother worked away a lot and didn’t spend much time with Amy. On special events like birthdays she would put a lot of time and effort into making Amy a cake and this made Amy feel special. It seemed that Amy tried to get that special feeling back by eating the same food her mother had made her. Since her mother’s death Amy had only wanted to eat cakes. If our mothers make us rice pudding with strawberry jam or apple pie when we are unhappy we often want those very same foods whenever we feel low. Again part of breaking the pattern is to fully understand how we acquired it in the first place since we all come into the world with normal eating habits. Understanding why can be a powerful tool in letting go, as you can’t change what you don’t understand. When we say, ‘I don’t know why I do this (eat like this) I just can’t seem to help it’, we are taking no responsibility. Once you can say, ‘I understand exactly why I did this and I choose not to do it any longer’, you are taking control and becoming free. Like Amy, it is normal to cross over into more than one category.
Solution
Adapt the following suggestions to suit you, substituting your specific food, i.e. chocolate, biscuits, pizza, ice cream, fast food, in place of cake:
• Cakes aren’t special, I am special.
• I understand why I thought cakes were love and accept that they never have been or could be.
• I don’t need food to recreate a memory. I use my brilliant brain to do that.
• Now that I accept that I am special I eat food that makes me feel good physically and emotionally: natural food that nourishes me and keeps me slim.
Patrick was a very successful city trader who would begin each day eating normally but after a business lunch he would send his secretary out to buy him a box of cream cakes. He would eat them all then feel disgusted with himself. Every day he vowed not to eat cream cakes but on the days when he did avoid them he would stand at his fridge door in the middle of the night eating cream and chocolate instead.
In hypnosis Patrick remembered being poor during the 1960s and only having the most basic food to eat. He and his friends would walk to school and on the way they would stop to look into the window of a nearby bakery. Patrick would look at all the fancy cakes and say out loud, ‘When I grow up I am going to eat all of these every day’. He and his friends would amuse themselves by picking out the cakes that they would enjoy the most if only they could afford to buy them saying to each other, ‘I will have that one first, then that one, then that one’, in doing so they could forget that they were dirt poor for a few moments. Patrick told me this was a ritual that he indulged in every morning and afternoon for years on his way past the bakery. His brain clearly got the message and acted on it because years later he was doing just what he had visualised, eating cakes and chocolate excessively.
If as a child you long for a certain type of food and link enormous pleasure to eating it in abundance, if you frequently focus on that longing and repeat it regularly, then your mind will assume you want that and the emotional imprint will be far stronger than the logic that tries to ignore it or fight
• I am choosing to eat like an adult, to eat the foods that are right for me.
• I love the feeling that I am in control now.
• Everything is available to me now, including being my ideal weight.
• I can and do choose what to eat and what I weigh.
• I could have junk food but I am choosing not to.
• Instead I choose to be slim.
• My mother is not in control, I am and I willingly make the right choices for me.
• Biscuits are for babies.
• Cakes are for children.
Emotional Eaters
Amy was an emotional eater who had an addiction to cakes and biscuits and ate them daily. She ate them even more when she was unhappy, sad or bored. Her mother worked away a lot and didn’t spend much time with Amy. On special events like birthdays she would put a lot of time and effort into making Amy a cake and this made Amy feel special. It seemed that Amy tried to get that special feeling back by eating the same food her mother had made her. Since her mother’s death Amy had only wanted to eat cakes. If our mothers make us rice pudding with strawberry jam or apple pie when we are unhappy we often want those very same foods whenever we feel low. Again part of breaking the pattern is to fully understand how we acquired it in the first place since we all come into the world with normal eating habits. Understanding why can be a powerful tool in letting go, as you can’t change what you don’t understand. When we say, ‘I don’t know why I do this (eat like this) I just can’t seem to help it’, we are taking no responsibility. Once you can say, ‘I understand exactly why I did this and I choose not to do it any longer’, you are taking control and becoming free. Like Amy, it is normal to cross over into more than one category.
Solution
Adapt the following suggestions to suit you, substituting your specific food, i.e. chocolate, biscuits, pizza, ice cream, fast food, in place of cake:
• Cakes aren’t special, I am special.
• I understand why I thought cakes were love and accept that they never have been or could be.
• I don’t need food to recreate a memory. I use my brilliant brain to do that.
• Now that I accept that I am special I eat food that makes me feel good physically and emotionally: natural food that nourishes me and keeps me slim.
Patrick was a very successful city trader who would begin each day eating normally but after a business lunch he would send his secretary out to buy him a box of cream cakes. He would eat them all then feel disgusted with himself. Every day he vowed not to eat cream cakes but on the days when he did avoid them he would stand at his fridge door in the middle of the night eating cream and chocolate instead.
In hypnosis Patrick remembered being poor during the 1960s and only having the most basic food to eat. He and his friends would walk to school and on the way they would stop to look into the window of a nearby bakery. Patrick would look at all the fancy cakes and say out loud, ‘When I grow up I am going to eat all of these every day’. He and his friends would amuse themselves by picking out the cakes that they would enjoy the most if only they could afford to buy them saying to each other, ‘I will have that one first, then that one, then that one’, in doing so they could forget that they were dirt poor for a few moments. Patrick told me this was a ritual that he indulged in every morning and afternoon for years on his way past the bakery. His brain clearly got the message and acted on it because years later he was doing just what he had visualised, eating cakes and chocolate excessively.
If as a child you long for a certain type of food and link enormous pleasure to eating it in abundance, if you frequently focus on that longing and repeat it regularly, then your mind will assume you want that and the emotional imprint will be far stronger than the logic that tries to ignore it or fight
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