February 1
For me it has been important to understand that inside of me (and I will speak for myself) thrives a couch potato and glutton just waiting to get out…or waiting to be fed as the case may be. She is remarkably persistent and clever. The smarter I am, apparently the smarter she is. But I have the advantage. I know she is there!
And, just like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors, when I feed her with excess food, laziness, or simply permission, she just gets bigger and more powerful. Maybe that’s part of the reason why, when people give up on themselves (sell out to, what my client calls, their evil twin), they typically gain to even greater weights than they had been before.
I have had several clients return some years later – to their great credit. They had bailed when they were struggling in the hopes that taking the focus off it would alleviate the stress of the struggle, somehow magically fix it. Typically their new goal weight is actually the weight they had come to see me at in the first place. I am sure that when they “took a break” they were not intending or even anticipating that.
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