Forgive The Fat!
The first big step towards shredding weight is that of exiting denial and facing the reality that you need to burn weight. This can be a difficult measure, in particular for those whose communities and families condone being overweight, and where a less than healthy way of living is normal. Getting in touch with the reality of how you got to this stage and what it’s now costing you is unlikely to be pleasant. While it may give you a feeling of control over your future, facing the truth of what lead to your weight accumulation will most likely also cause a lot of anger. As such it’s possible, and certainly even probable, that you’ll feel a level of anger towards yourself and towards others.
If you want your fat elimination endeavour to have success it’s important that you start by decide to forgive yourself for putting on these pounds, and that you decide to forgive others for the things they did that prompted you to gain pounds. The more precise you can be in just how other people prompted this situation, and how their actions have made you feel, the more real the forgiveness will be. (So, for example, don’t word it “I chose to forgive my Mom for causing me to gain weight” but instead say “I decide to forgive my Mother for failing to teach me healthy nutrition, which made me gain weight, and made me feel unattractive, self-concious, and depressed when I was a teenager. I let go of all my rights against her for this.”)
Forgiveness is not an emotion, it’s a choice to let go of the rights you have against the other person. So you don’t need to feel like doing it to do so. You may need to declare that reality more than once, but bit by bit you’ll start feeling forgiveness as a feeling too.
When you forgive someone it does not mean that you’re saying that their actions were alright or that it did not matter. Forgiveness is simply something you do for your own sake, to free yourself from your past, and from bitterness and full of hate.
You may need to write a list of everyone who has contributed to your weight gain in one way or another, and then methodically go through it, forgiving them one by one. It’s important to be truthful and to be thorough, as the level of your freedom from the past is directly connected to the level of diligence you bring to this process.
It’s vital that you do this because bitterness, offense, and hatred are not a great basis on which to commence a process that is meant to be about positive and constructive change. If you want to walk into a life that is truly liberated from the past you’re going to have to let go of all the baggage involved.
And don’t forget to forgive yourself!!!
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