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 |  | Once I truly learned how to be with my emotions, once I started being present to all my emotions, not just the wonderful stuff in my life but also the loneliness, the boredom, the disappointment, the anger, I stopped overeating.
Having the ability to be with my emotions has allowed me access to resources that I always had but was never able to call on when emotional hunger manifested. I can now call on these personal resources to deal with the reality of my life. My life has not changed to happily ever after because I no longer eat compulsively. My soul mate didn’t materialize the moment I lost the weight; my problems didn’t disappear from my life. But all of the energy, all of the shame that went into showing up fat were channeled into living, as fully as I could, as humanly as I could. I’m not this society’s cover model, I’m not a size two or zero but it is truly wonderful to feel comfortable in one’s own skin. It is exhilarating to have a man find me sexy. It is a new found freedom to move as I want to, to wear what I want to, to go where I want to go and to experience what I want to experience. No longer are my activities restricted because I’m carrying around eighty pounds of extra weight. No longer am I stopped by shame of how I would look in a bathing suit, or in a fancy gown, or in a simple pair of cotton jeans. I can just show up and enjoy being truly present to the activity, not weighed down by the shame. I am finally fully alive. |
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So the critical key is: What would it mean if you loved yourself? What is your quality of life? How will you feel physically and emotionally when you not longer carry that extra weight around? What would it truly mean if the shame ended in your life? What would it truly mean if you could decide your activities based on your desires and not your limitations or your shame? To what are you willing to say, "No"? Are you willing to live from this consciousness, from this alternative set of options?
The first step is to be with your emotions, in the most effective, humane manner possible. The next step is to let self-love guide you to a wiser set of choices, and the final step is to choose to embrace life and to live, fully!
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