Changing habits for losing weight
So, I have come to the conclusion, as I get in my late thirties… that I am fat. I always played the ‘chubby’ card, that I am big-boned, but, alas, it is definitely fat. In fact, for the last couple of years, I have become lazier as well which has seen me head in the wrong direction.
To be honest, it’s a constant battle I’ve had since an early teenage and I very rarely don’t put up a good fight, if at all. I know (I just know, right) through timeline work that the weight will come off and I will end up being quite a healthy person, and I also think I am very nearly there ready for action.
In fact, I may have started already this week. Not by consciously attacking the bad foods I eat, but by understanding that I eat usually because I am bored. It has nothing to do with hunger.
I have been busy, developing new habits (or patterns) that work on the boredom, rather than the eating itself. It’s a bummer right now, as I have a bad back and want to exercise, but I can foresee a time in the VERY near future that I will be changing habits even more in the direction of a healthy lifestyle.
A little bit of history
When I first did timeline back on my NLP Practitioner Course in 2004, something came out of nowhere for me to do with being scared of death and my father, who died at the age of 49 of a heart attack, a month before my 18th birthday.
What surfaced from my unconscious mind during this experience was that I was always getting told how much like my dad I am. My mind was reading this as a “well, I better hurry up and ruin my body for an early death then” - it was a powerful experience as you may imagine.
The future
Of course, when these things surface, you can work on them (you gotta love timeline therapy), and I have, in so many ways. I also believe it’s down to me now to get healthy and the time is nigh to work it out.
I always found a lot of NLP techniques a bit shallow for this quest though, like changing a ‘like to a dislike’ or strategies - perhaps I just haven’t done them that well in the past? I do think it’s more than that though, understanding a higher level of NLP so that you can just ‘work on yourself’ surreptitiously in the background.
So, my confidence is high and my boredom is being quashed with new habits. This includes one that may sound rather mundane - pottering round the house and garden doing little things that need doing - double whammy that one. And partly the reason for my bad back I fear that has to carry my weight and more when I am lifting.
Losing weight, or in fact Living a Health Lifestyle, always interests me and a way for me to find the perfect balance, so please feel free to share your thoughts with me.
Tags: General NLP talk, timeline