The Self-Loving Skills of Conscious Eating

Are you at the point where you are tired of living a life with food as your enemy?

Is life a constant struggle as you try to shed or keep off those extra pounds?

Have you ever wondered where all your will power went?

The truth about weight loss motivation does not lie with will power; it lies with the skills we lost when we started dieting. It lies in the fact that dieting is not a self-loving process.

Our problem lies not with food but with our own attitude to it. When following a diet plan or eating regime you not only label food as 'good' or 'bad' but you also give up two very important and self-loving skills...



1. The Self-loving Skill of Conscious Eating

2. The Self-loving Skill of Personal Choice

By listening to what foods other people tell you are good for you, personal power of choice is given away. By switching off your mind to your body you close down your instinctive ability to eat exactly what your body requires. Your focus becomes the food you believe you shouldn't have and the outer appearance of your body. Where is the love in that? In other words you lose the skill of inner reflection, an ability to look internally to find self-love, peace and happiness rather than focussing your mind on external factors and expectations.

Conscious Eating is a self-loving skill that is not just about food. It encompass a wide variety of skills based around self-reflection on...

* Your thoughts about food

* Your thoughts about yourself

* The effect different foods have on your body

* How you feel when you are eating and have eaten

* How you use food as a fuel not a comforter

* How you love yourself


These are the skills you have lost, the many and varied habits of 'Conscious Eating'. The first step in regaining them is to shed your fear of food and learn to love it again. It is fear that holds you trapped in old and unhelpful habits with food. After all, if they were useful, would you be struggling in a battle with food and weight after all this time? Wouldn't you have lost the weight and kept it off easily?

Many of the Conscious Eating skills are those used by people who have never had a weight or size issue and so have never dieted. They are a rare breed that believe they are beautiful just as they are. They have no problem accepting the shape of the body they genetically inherited from their parents. They have no problem ignoring what others and society portray as the 'perfect' body shape. They sometimes have a wardrobe of clothes in 2 different sizes because they accept their weight fluctuation between seasons. They also have no problem accepting a change in shape and size, as they get older. These are the people you can learn a great deal from about Conscious Eating. They hold many of the keys of how you regain control and power over the food you eat, and how you love yourself enough to eat to live rather than live to eat.