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Here are some of the most frequently asked questions that arise when people start putting this system into practice.
This all sounds too simple. Does it really work?
Yes!
The research shows that it works for most people most of time for most people.
What if I'm really overweight - can I still use this system or do I need to diet first?
Let me put it very clearly - it.s diets and the dieting mentality that was making and keeping you overweight in the first place! When you really look at the evidence of the impact of diets on obesity, it makes you wonder how the people who pitch them can keep a straight face.
Anything or anyone who tries to tell you what, where, when, or how much to eat is teaching you to ignore your body - and if you're overweight, your body is trying to tell you it doesn't like being ignored!
I don't care how much you weigh, if you.ve been overweight all your life, or if all your family are overweight - as you use this system you will lose weight, feel more in control and better about yourself.
It's a huge relief to eat when I'm hungry, but I feel guilty eating whatever I want. Can I do one without the other?
No, no, no, no, and no. One of the worst consequences of the diet conspiracy is that serial dieters are continually looking over their shoulder for the food police, lest they be caught enjoying food and sent back to starvation purgatory. Your body was made to run on food, and it will always tell you what it needs once you learn to listen.
Every time you eat something you don't really want, you're reinforcing the idea that someone other than you and your body knows best about what you need - and whilst that's great news for the advertising industry, it's a recipe for disaster when it comes to losing weight.
I can't seem to quit the clean plate club no matter how hard I try - do you have any further suggestions?
It sounds as though you are still trying to 'willpower' yourself thin, which is a bit like trying to hammer in nails with nothing but a screwdriver. It's not that it's not a useful tool, but rather that it's the wrong tool for the job at hand. By using your imagination instead of your will, you'll find it nearly effortless to leave food on your plate and out of your stomach.
If you're really stuck, try this - cut off a few bites of food before you start eating and either throw them away or sweep them onto a spare plate and have your waiter or waitress take it away. Then you can eat everything that's left on your plate (providing you.re actually hungry).
It's been nearly a week and I haven't lost any weight yet. What am I doing wrong?
There's an old story about a farmer who gave his daughter a packet of seeds to plant so that she would learn about the natural order of planting and nurturing what you most want to see develop and grow. Yet even though he had given her some of the simplest growing seeds available, nothing new ever seemed to emerge from the field.
One day, the farmer noticed his daughter digging up the seeds and holding them up to the light. When he asked her what she was doing, she told him she had wanted to see if there was anything growing yet. What she didn't realize was that each time she dug up a seed, she was preventing it from evolving at its natural pace.
In the same way, if you keep weighing yourself without allowing time for these seeds to take root in your unconscious, the only thing that will grow are your stomach, hips, and thighs.
What do I do if I fall off the wagon?
It's perfectly OK to make mistakes. As a baby did you walk on your first attempt? When you learned to ride a bike did you wobble at first and come off a few times? Have the world's greatest achievers made mistakes on their journey to success?
I would assume that in the first few weeks it's highly likely you will have a slip and over eat, or temporarily forget to follow the rules. It's fine, just return to following the rules again. Some people use a little slip to beat themselves up and tell themselves that once again they have failed, console themselves with a binge and to just give up on doing the system, resigned to the fact that they will always be fat.
Not this time! Simply go back to following the rules, eat when you are hungry, enjoy each mouthful and when you suspect you are full stop!
What do I do if I want to binge?
As some of the old patterns of overeating dissipate, it is not unusual for the odd craving to arise. When it does, proceed directly to the CAVING BUSTER video or the OVERCOME EMOTIONAL EATING VIDEO.
But what if I am hungry all the time?
Nobody eats all the time; for example, very few people eat on the toilet or while sleeping. The problem is that over years of telling your body what to eat and when, your body has learned that if it doesn.t tell you its hungry, you might starve it. You need to reassure the body that from now on, whenever it needs food that food will be made available to it. You do that by eating when you are hungry (and stopping when you think you.re full).
If you're really worried about it, drink a glass of water first or tune in to your feelings and listen to the TRANCE.
What if I can't tell when I am full?
In his book 'Achieving Vibrance', Gay Hendricks teaches about a mechanism in the body he calls 'the V spot', which is located in your solar plexus, just below your ribcage and towards the center of your body- This is actually a muscle which is designed to control the flow of food to the stomach. Unfortunately, it.s not a very strong muscle for most of us! However, as you get more and more sensitive to your body's signals, you can actually feel the V spot close off when your body has had enough food.
In the meantime, just stop if you suspect you might be full, knowing that it doesn't matter if you're wrong - you can always start eating again if it turns out your body is still hungry.
So for now it's OK to guess.
What if I drink a lot?
You're not fat because of what you drink - after all, there are plenty of thin alcoholics. The real issue with excessive drinking isn't weight gain, it's unconsciousness - and I'm not talking about drinking until you pass out!
Most people drink so that they don't have to deal with what's really going on in their lives - but now that you've begun this program, what's really going on in your life is a process of continual, positive change. I would suggest that at least at first, don't drink when you eat and don.t eat when you are drinking, but if you do, just make sure to continue to follow the four golden rules of the system.
(By the way, if you think you've got a drinking problem, then seek help from an appropriate professional)
Can I lose weight without any exercise?
Any movement of your body counts as exercise!
It's virtually impossible not to exercise unless you're completely bedridden. (And even then you're probably breathing.) My only question for you is, given how easy it is to accelerate your weight loss by moving just a little bit more than you already do, why would you want to lose weight the slower way?
If I exercise more, will I lose weight faster?
I have noticed that when some people reach the desperation point where they decide they 'have to lose weight immediately', they begin starving themselves, power walking, and going to the gym all on the same day. When these people don't lose weight immediately (because they are driving their body into survival mode), they decide that it's all too much they give up on the whole project.
Any task can be achieved if it's broken down in to small enough chunks. That's why it's a good idea to choose a type and amount of exercise that you can succeed at easily and then increase it bit by bit each week. That way, you get to feel in control every step of the way.
Once you've succeeded the first three times, you'll continue doing it for life!
How well does this work? I want to look like the models in magazines.
So do the models in the magazines. Most of the pictures you see on magazine covers have been digitally altered in order to make it striking so that you will buy it. It is not representative of reality. Rather than compare yourself to something that doesn't exist it's far better to compare yourself to yourself. Far too many women compare themselves with an airbrushed picture of an anorexic girl on a magazine cover and decide they aren.t good enough as a human being. You are likely to feel significantly better if you ask yourself this question instead:
How much better am I getting?
Actually, I lived in New York for a number of years and had the opportunity to meet many of the world's most famous models. What struck me was that even though many of these women looked so incredibly beautiful, they were pretty miserable, which I suppose is understandable given that they're so hungry all the time! I realised that they spent all their time looking for flaws and rarely saw the perfection of who they already were.
As the great philosopher Goethe said 'It's not so important where we stand, but the direction in which we are moving'. Human beings are usually at any time either getting better or worse. If you are getting better, excellent. If you are getting worse, then you know the direction in which you need to move.
The system is working great, but I'm worried that it will stop. What can I do to make sure it keeps working?
It's important for you to realise that the system isn't working - it's you who's working - perfectly. And all you need to do is eat when you.re hungry, eat what you want (not what you think you should), eat consciously and enjoy every mouthful, and stop when you think you're full.
Your body is amazing, and the more you trust yourself, the better you will continue to look and feel.
I started losing weight, but now it's stopped. What do I do?
If your weight loss has reached a plateau, the first thing is to check if you're really still following the system:
1. Are you eating whenever you're hungry?
2. Are you eating what you actually want, not what you think you should?
3. Are you eating consciously and enjoying every mouthful?
4. Are you stopping when you think you're full (even if there's still food on your plate)?
If you can honestly answer yes to each of those questions, then the secret is to slow your eating speed down even more!
Here's how it works - your stomach expands and contracts according to how much food you put into it. In the past, you were eating so fast you couldn't hear your body's full signal. Consequently, you over ate and expanded you stomach, thereby creating a need for more food to make you full. When you began to slow down your eating speed, you became conscious of what you were eating as you were eating it and were able to notice the full signal much quicker. You ate less food, your stomach contracted, and you needed less and less food to become full.
However, our bodies are highly adaptive. By now, you may have become so used to eating at your new, slower speed that you have once again gone unconscious about what's going on with your body as you eat. By slowing down even more, you will once again 'trick yourself awake', and be able to once again tune in to your body's satiation signals