I joined team diet crusher for the obvious reason: I wanted to lose weight. History had proven that while weight loss was a goal, I evidently didn’t want to lose it bad enough to stick to the regular diet stuff that people do. So, almost on a whim (and because Karen is really funny) I joined the team to see what would happen. As advertised, I did lose weight while eating exactly what I wanted whenever I wanted to eat it. In fact, I’m still losing weight.
But this post is not about that.
This post is about all the surprise benefits I got from diet crushing–that have nothing to do with how well my pants fit.
Discovered Happiness
Thanks to Karen and her “noticing” exercises I not only noticed all the food I wasn’t eating, I also noticed that my life is pretty amazing. In fact, I’m as or more happy now than I have been at any other time in my life. I also noticed that since I still weigh over 200 pounds, I must have been wrong about needing to be thin (or at least of average weight) before true happiness was possible. That realization alone was worth the price of admission.
Reclaimed Brain Power
While I started diet crushing to create extra space in my pants, I ended up creating space somewhere else as well–my brain. Before diet crushing I spent hours every day thinking about food–what I wanted to eat, what I didn’t want to eat, how to justify eating food I thought I wasn’t supposed to eat. While spending that much energy thinking about food might be fine for a chef, nutritionist or Food Network celebrity judge, it has almost no benefit for an internet entrepreneur. Thanks to diet crushing, I am now spending more time thinking about what’s really important to me (and playing Angry Birds.)
Learned to Trust Myself
If you’d asked me before I started diet crushing if I trusted myself, I would have insisted that I did. And yet, I also would have listed all the ways I’d tried to trick myself into eating food. Thanks to Karen’s insistence that I eat all the time whether I was hungry or not, I learned that my body knows perfectly well how much food it needs to feel good–no tricks required.
Embraced my Inner Rebel
Diet crushing was the final push I needed to stop following other people’s rules and to start taking responsibility for my own happiness. The power to ignore rules that don’t serve me is one of the coolest experiences of my entire life. In fact, it’s so incredible that if for some crazy thought experiment-type reason I had to choose between the power to ignore rules that don’t apply to me, or continuing to lose weight, I’d pick rule-ignoring every time.
About half way through my diet crushing experience, I told Karen I was glad I’d managed to gain so many extra pounds, because there is no way I’d have invested in diet crushing if I’d only wanted to lose a little weight. I’m sticking by that statement–the diet crushing experience was worth every pound. Luckily, Karen is not going to insist that you gain more weight before you join the crushers. If you ever “should” on yourself when it comes to food, Diet Crushing can help you–no matter what the scale tells you. You’ll be glad you did.
Maureen Carruthers is crushing her diet so she can spend less time thinking about food, and more time creating a secret hide-out for fabulous women bent on changing the world. Click Here to be first in line for the inside scoop.
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