Forgiveness and Dieting

I think all too often as women we are geared toward sticking to a diet, buying a magical pill, buying a certain book with miracle diet recipes, to signing up to weight loss forums to give ourselves the illusion and excitement of embarking on a healthy weight loss regime.

We diet, and we diet. We cut fat, carbs and carve calories out of our diet on the quest to find that perfect formula that will enable us to achieve a perfect body and ideal health. Instead, we wind up resenting food, it's place on the planet, and the fact that we have to think about it in order to survive. How many of you think to yourself "I've tried every form of dieting and none of it works; I really suck!" This is NOT; I repeat, NOT the way to live... is it?

Inevitably we grow weary of the excitement and the newness wears off, and we 'fall off the wagon' disappointing or even depressing ourselves. Then we kick ourselves and guilt ourselves into oblivion for not keeping up on our commitments. Sound familiar? You're not alone.

Really, what we should be doing is listening to our body's cravings and sensual desires and celebrating our ability to listen and experience. Instead we have to get into a certain mindset of forgiveness.

Forgiveness for all we've done to our bodies, for all we will do, and just enjoy ourselves, because we all just have this life. It doesn't even have to take a while to get there.

HALF of body image and the destructive nature in which we treat ourselves when we're trying to lose those unwanted pounds could and can be avoided!

I just recently came across a CD I think is vital for all mommies to listen to, and that is called "Intuitive Eating" by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, and a LOT of it is based on the same principles I spoke of above. I strongly urge those of you who are committed to forgetting how to diet and shaming ourselves into fitness, but rather build positive experiences with food and fitness, and getting back to the core of life--enjoyment!