Letting go of the weight has never been easier!!!

I would have to say that I have tried several ways to loose weight for the last 9 years.

Back in 2004, I dropped about 40 pounds in 3 months. I ate small portions, and did a lot of walking to loose all that weight. I never really felt that healthy, and I was extremely aggressive in my approach, both physically and mentally. I felt like I was starving and over working my body... it was very exhausting. Then I threw my back out and it took a while to recover from that, so I stopped my routine. It took about a year for all that weight to come back, and plus 10 more pounds.

Then in 2006 I did a 10 day water only fast, and some restricted diet just before the fast and lost a quick 30 pounds... I felt very deprived during those 10 days. That weight stayed off for about 6 months, before I gained it back, plus an extra 15 pounds.

I stayed 214 pounds for about 4 years... until 2010 - when I fasted again for 10 days on water only and lost about 24 pounds. This time I felt better about the fasting, as there where other health benefits that I recognized right away, however I still felt like I was starving myself, and when I was done fasting, I gained all 24 pounds back plus an additional 14 pounds....

For sometime I just gave up on trying to loose weight, because to me it just seemed to get worse and worse. So I was a bit weary of loosing again only to gain it all back plus more.

The problem was the fact that I was somewhat aggressive, and focusing mostly on the body, and not the mind. Of course I did work on the mind too, as you sort of have to in order to loose weight, however I did not understand how to work on the mind, so I just programmed it with other belief systems that also failed me.

I knew that I needed to find a way to loose weight that did not require much suffering if any.

I knew that too much exercise, and too much deprivation was not going to work. I needed to find something that worked right into my daily life, something that I could do for the rest of my life.

Dr. Hawkins techniques bypass both the body and the mind, and work at the level of consciousness itself. It is by far the easiest and most loving thing I have ever done for myself.

I quit dieting, I quit trying, I quit using will power, and I quit worrying about my body.I simply replace my old patterns with these new techniques and the weight is coming off. I am close to having no sensations of hunger at all, maybe a few seconds a day if any at all. Yet still when ever that sensation comes along I am simply willing to sit with the sensation, and allow it to disappear without acting on it by trying to satiate the sensation.

Within a month I will also be ignoring the calorie intake, as the techniques are not about calories, exercise, or dieting.

I eat the same foods that I use to eat, just a lot less in amount and frequency than before. I move around more than I use to, however I do not have a regime, so I do not have a regime to break. All my extra physical activities are spontaneous, and enjoyable. When I feel like moving I move, and when I feel like resting I rest. I am consciously eating, and caring for myself.

#10 - Do something caring for your body everyday.

I know that it is easy to not love your body when it seems to be the cause of so much pain, whether it be mental, physical, or emotional pain. I think it is important to do something caring everyday and start to create a loving attitude towards your body.

I use to say to myself that I hated my body. Sometimes, if I was not going anywhere, I would not even look in the mirror all day, or worse, for days. Sometimes I would not even brush my hair.

Since I have started working on my consciousness techniques I realize how thankful I am to have a body. It may not be exactly in the shape that I want it to be in, however, I depend on it, and it always serves me faithfully.

So now I make a conscious effort to do something everyday. It could be as simple as taking a nice long hot bath, painting my fingernails, or even drinking a glass of water.

These techniques are all about changing old destructive patterns, and replacing them with healthy and loving attitudes towards myself, and my body.

#9 - Let go of all guilt whenever you feel you have binged or failed

Guilt serves no purpose in health. It causes stress, and makes us feel bad. Feeling bad also serves no other purpose other than the fact that we get to feel bad.

I have learned that negative self talk comes from feeling guilty, and it is not constructive, nor is it loving to myself.

So what if I have some days that I ate more than I needed to, and did not loose weight. The truth is that a few days here and there are not going to stop me from reaching my goal weight.

There is no reason to allow a few days of binging to be the cause of quitting or giving up.

I do not know anybody that falls down and stays down. So how is this any different? Just get back up....it is really that simple. I know that even if I get hurt falling down, that I will heal.