I want to give a little more background on how the law of attraction is impacting your eating and/or drinking behaviours and weight outcomes.
The law of attraction is a spiritual concept that your thoughts, feelings, and core beliefs act as energy that attracts matching experiences into your life.
So if what you think and believe creates your emotions, and if your emotions are what drive your actions and reactions, and if your actions create the results and experience of your life, then it makes sense that your weight is directly linked to how you think and feel because it drives how/what/why you eat.
And if you have thoughts like I used to that:
my body just loves to be fat 😔
food is hard and requires restriction and dieting 😔
I’m not good enough as I am 😔
I have to stock up now because I’m going to be good again on Monday😔
I don’t deserve loving, kind care 😔
then that’s going to make you feel sad, ashamed and hopeless.
And those emotions will drive eating and drinking behaviours to numb them but also create more of them, because you won’t be eating in response to your body’s physical cues but in response to your emotions.
Dieting, restriction, the inevitable rebound. Obeying your urges. Saying f*ck-it. all-or-nothing self-limiting thinking attaching your weight to your worth and sense of enoughness.
And your body is never going to weigh its natural weight if you keep feeding it when it doesn’t want food.
And the problem is you’ll then feel more sadness, more shame, more hopelessness, because your weight will still bother you and you’ll want for change but you’ll keep ignoring the thinking that is causing those emotions in the first place.
You’ll feel stuck in a cycle which keeps attracting more of the energy you’re putting out.
The quality of your thinking creates the quality of your life and how you feel.
If you can dare to believe that it’s possible you deserve good care, that you’re worthy of it, that your body was actually born to be naturally slim, that food can be simple and easy and joyful, it will lower the stress in your body and make it more likely that you don’t want to numb and buffer.
It will make it more likely that you can follow through with your food and drinks plan for that day because it’s not been made from an energy of lack or fear but from love and kindness, focusing on nourishment not restriction.
And the more you can follow through on treating yourself from that energy, the less you stop over-feeding your body.
It stops the numbing and buffering, and the all-or-nothing f*ck-it cycle.
And of course your weight will be impacted by that change.
You will likely lose weight because you’re slowly but surely stopping the snacking, buffering and overeating that was coming from a limiting energy that you were creating with your thoughts.
And you will start to feel better. You will start to have more energy. You will start to believe that you’re inherently worthy of great things.
And your brain LEARNS.
It doesn’t just keep offering you urges and cravings. As you stop obeying all your urges, your habits and dopamine expectations reset, and you want less of the stuff you used to think about all the time.
Your food noise dramatically decreases. You feel even better. Freer.
You start thinking that self-love and intentional thinking (not self-judgement and dieting) is the key.
You start to choose kindness over criticism because you’ve shown to yourself that it’s so much more effective at making you feel better, and you finally believe that you deserve to feel better.
The way you move through the world up-levels.
People can see the difference in you. How you seem more present and content, and aren’t always saying things like “I was trying to be good today” or “I’ll start again on Monday”.
This is joy. This is relief. This is more space to get on with other things like achieving your potential, improving your relationships, going after risks that attract you, and living a life that gives you genuine pleasure and fulfilment.
It is so worth your time. YOU are so worth your time and commitment. Of course you are.