How Diets are killing women’s self esteem
Diet = failure.
Every year millions of women spend billions of dollars trying to lose weight and keep it off. Yet statistically speaking, less than 5% ever reach their goal weight and keep it off for more than a year.
I am very anti-diet and not just because they don’t work—which they don’t, by the way. I am anti-anything that makes some corporations so rich by making 51% of the population feel bad about themselves.
So why do we do this to ourselves when it doesn’t work? Well, we don’t have just an obesity epidemic, we have a low self-esteem epidemic and women have this worse than men.
Marketing companies figured out a long time ago that if you make women insecure about themselves, they will spend much more than men to try and fix it. Much, much more.
Almost no one loses weight and keeps it off, mostly because they are going about the weight loss issue in the wrong way. But that’s not the point. The point is to make people, particularly women, try this impossible thing called self-control and starvation to make them fail, feel bad, then buy something else. It’s marketing genius, the best thing since $.99.
Don’t fall for it. Be smarter and wiser than that.
Oh, but, Jill, does that mean I just do nothing?
No, but losing weight is not what you should strive for. Getting healthy should be your goal and that involves so much more than your weight. It’s about:
-Cleaning up your diet so that you are giving your body the best and most healthy fuel possible so you can feel good every day for the rest of your life.
-Cleaning up your personal life so you let go of people, places, and situations that are not healthy or good for your self-esteem. Sometimes that means firing friends, ending a bad romantic relationship, or changing jobs.
-Cleaning up your environment, getting toxic things/chemicals and even toxic cleaning supplies out of your home and environment.
-Paying attention to what you are giving your attention to. Only watching media programs that make you feel good or happy at the end. Just say “no” to the news.
But most important, working on loving yourself, so you allow yourself to be happy no matter what you weigh.
Remember, you won’t gain self-esteem by getting to a size 6; you actually have to gain self-esteem in order to get to a size 6 and more importantly when and if you do get there you won’t care because you have created love for yourself that has nothing to do with your weight.
Getting healthy isn’t about cutting calories. It’s about getting fully healthy—body, mind, and spirit. Surrounding yourself with love and loving people, emotionally healthy relationships and situations.
Work on that and you will truly be able to create the body and life you want for yourself.
Jill K Thomas CHT
Soul Connect Hypnotherapy
760-803-2841
Jill@soulconnecthypnotherapy.com
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Author of the books “Tales from the Trance” & “Feed your Real Hunger”
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