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Losing Weight & Counselling
When you go outside yourself and ask yourself to go on a Diet to resolve your over-eating behaviours, more often than not, your inner emotional urges to over-eat are still operating at full force.
Dieting, lowering your caloric intake, and exercising...alone do not deal with your unique, fundamental issues of what cause you to use food for comfort, to dull emotional pain, or to over use food to celebrate.
Over-eating is a matter of choice....yours....which results in being over weight.
Changing your choice takes on new meaning....a new story, if you would...it's an inside job.
You have a thinking problem. You do not have a food problem.
Along with physically removing your excess weight, changing and moving away from old fat brain messages can be challenging and confusing, but possible. Like most changes we embrace, this will take TIME, self-awareness, and a great deal of patience with yourself.
My clients include people who:
- have tried many diets only to relapse time and time again
- were feeling lost, invisible, confused, a failure--powerless,
- used food to avoid uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.
At your goal???
- Arriving at your goal weight and learning to maintain your weight brings huge changes, and change does not come easily for some of us--even 'good' change.
- Your body is thinner, true, but your brain still tends to think in the language of 'fat'--your former overweight self thought/feeling patterns.
- The stranger in the mirror--the new thinner you--is not in sync with your self-image. It's blurry.
In addition to working as a Registered Clinical Counsellor with clients regarding their dependence on over-eating, I have many years in my adolescence, my young adulthood, where I was either over-eating or on a diet. I have lost hundreds of pounds of weight numerous times only to regain them all back.
I have now removed 120 excess pounds....and for the FIRST time in my life, I have kept that weight from my body going on 2 years now!!!!!!
YOU CAN DO IT.........I CAN HELP!
