The Junk Food’s Connected To The…Weight Loss

Happy Monday!!

(That is, if you’re undieting to lose weight or maintain it.  If you’re dieting, well, good luck with the happy stuff.)

This is for you if you’ve ever said “XYZ” (insert sweets, chips etc…) are my weakness.”

Not true.

(I know you can practically see my face right now, you know how excited I get when we catch you telling an untruth about yourself, because the truth about you is always there, there! right behind it.)

And I LOVE the truth about you.  (But who wouldn’t, you’re fabulous!!)

The truth is you discriminate ALL the time.  You’d be SO much better off admitting that.

Case in point.

It’s a matter of fact that you do NOT like ALL kinds of sweets, chips, but it sure sounds like you do when you say “I’m a chips kind of person.”  ”Sweets are my downfall.”

Much more importantly – as my esteemed Life Coach Tim Brownson at A Daring Adventure would attest – it feels like it’s true.

Your subconscious certainly doesn’t know any different.  It – read “you” – feels like that’s just how you are and how you’re always going to be…

Weighed down with your weaknesses.

The reality is, there’s more than one kind of chip that you don’t like, there’s more than one kind of sweet that you’d hate to be left alone on a dessert island with.

(Oh so now you don’t like funny people either?!  What do you mean, “of course I do, when I see one?!”  Eat me!)

Ok, back to you, just because I’m in such a great mood, it being Undieting Monday and all…

Do yourself – ok – us – a favor (because no matter what I love ya.)

If it’s sweets that you are claiming is your weakness, think of a sweet that you really just cannot stand.  Chips, same thing.  If it’s both, think of the worst in your opinion of each.  And then do this.

• Buy the largest bag you can get of whatever it is. (For me, it was pork rinds and Peppermint Patties.  If those are some of your favorites and you show up here at my house in a thousand years, they will still be here and that will be your lucky day.)
• Put those bags in the cupboard? refrigerator? wherever you keep what you would have previously categorized as your weaknesses.
  • As you do that, let the record reflect…no matter what you’ve told yourself, clearly you’re not a person who would eat anything.
• Get a small – miniature size if you can get it because they take up less than this much space in your brain – of each of your so-not-your weaknesses.
• Put the mini ones in your car or purse.
  • (Since there was much more truth to be had about me – like there is about you – I put a Three Muskateers in the cubbyhole under my dash and a small ziplock bag of Funyuns – all I could fit in the glove box, but one -really-gag-would have been enough.  I could have fit them in the cubby, too, but I usually forget they’re in the glove box, so whenever I open it up and I see them in there, they re-remind me of who I really am AND the day I realized that and they crack me up – they’re Funyuns y’all.  At least as long as I don’t ever eat one.)

Just in case you’re hastening to add… “Well, I’m not a Three Muskateers person, but I am a Snickers person…”

I used to say that, too, until I realized – more truth – that I’ve never bought a store out of all of their Snickers (not even on multiple visits.)

Now, even though I know the truth about you, I’d love to hear it from you, since as fabulous as I know for sure you are…

The thing about truth is that in order for it to set you free, you have to tell it.

What are you going to put in your cupboard, or in your refrigerator?  Same or different from what’s going in your car or purse?

What would you never eat not in a million years?

Whatever it is, the reality is that you can’t escape is that there is SO much that you won’t eat…no matter what.

That’s just how you are, and how you are always going to be.

How does that label make you feel?