Hi Weight Loss,
There's one specific, basic, and to me *crazy* belief, that
separates my feminine approach to slimming down, from
diet-industry's methodology which is the following:
The belief that your body is something you have to painfully
work to *control* to get what you want.
This belief is so thick in the air we breathe as women in the
modern-day, diet-dominated world, we for the most part
no longer even think to question it.
This must be addressed and it is in this week's blog.
It's become a taken-for-granted, cultural assumption that
losing weight has to be painfully difficult, hard work and
requires using your mental power, to overcome and resist
the untrustworthy urges of your body.
The problem is, this is like telling a man complaining that
he's not happy with his marriage, that the answer is to
learn to better control his wife.
Is *controlling* her really the secret to a happy marriage?
I don't think so. A recipe for a miserable, abusive marriage
more like it.
As with marriage, so with weight loss, trying to *control
your body* as your principle weight loss strategy is bound
to fail.
What does work then, you're wondering, darling Weight Loss?
It all begins with befriending your body and this week's blog
breaks it down for you with 3 steps to get started healing
the most important relationship of your life, the one with
what I call your "female animal."
In response, I want to hear the following from YOU in the
comments:
Love,
xo Jena
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