Here are 6 quick tips to get you moving along the road to non dieting and self acceptance:
-Toss out your diet books. Get rid of all your old diet manuals, calorie charts and all diet related magazine articles promising a quick fix weight loss.
- Throw out or put away your scale. Begin to break the cycle of weight and food obsession by realizing that you are so much more than a number. Besides don’t let that old hunk of scrap metal tell you how you’re entitled to feel that day. That’s giving away your power.
- Get support. Surround yourself with a circle of supportive like minded women who are also on the road to non dieting and ending their weight and food obsession.
- Plan a skin you’re in movie night rent a film showing women who are comfortable in their bodies at any size, such as: Phat Girlz, Queen Sized, Real Women Have Curves, Hairspray, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
- Focus on function. Stop resenting your chunky legs, bulging midriff and untoned arms. Be thankful for what it has given you the ability to do, not how it looks.
- Learn how to become an intuitive eater. Stop dieting. If you don’t love it, don’t eat it! Stop eating at the first sign of satisfaction.