When you’re a woman, you know of all the forms you can self-sabotage your diet: basically, if you eat, you sabotage your life. Why would you ever do that?
I am kidding, of course. But that is what we’re being told: we shouldn’t eat, shouldn’t look like this or that and when we do, we lose.
So, if you feel like you’re constantly self-sabotaging on the way to healing, ask yourself these questions:
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Are the standards you have set for yourself even achievable?
When does self-sabotage set in for you? What does self-sabotage even mean for you? What’s the goal here, really? Perfectionism – all or nothing? You cannot fall off the wagon, if you don’t have one, so what is your wagon?
The answer is to stop trying to be perfect and to surrender to the reality of life.
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What do you really believe about yourself?
Do you believe you’re unlovable, bad, undeserving, stupid, not good enough, deficient?
Here is the thing: you will always act upon who you believe yourself to be. If you truly loved yourself you wouldn’t sabotage yourself because you’d know that you only deserve the best for yourself (and the best is NOT weighing a certain amount when it is the complete wrong weight for your body!). If you believe you don’t deserve to have a happy body, you won’t have one. If you believe you don’t deserve to be free of your obsession with food, you’ll screw things up.
The answer is to heal your core wounds.
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Are you scared of successful healing?
Embrace fear and hesitation when trying something new. Binging every night, going on a new diet every Monday, restricting to the point of going slightly insane, all those actions keep us safe. They’re self-soothing, self-protecting. The struggle we’re in right now is SAFE. Often times we don’t do something beneficial because what we do right now feels great to our body.
The answer is to make it easy on yourself by doing fun stuff, by creating habits. Create emotional freedom, so that you don’t have to protect yourself or soothe yourself anymore.
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Are you living life or living a diet? Are you still stuck in the dieting mindset?
That – of course – is the number one obstacle on your way to letting go of self-sabotage. If you still believe in diets, if weight loss is still your number 1 goal, you’ll continue to sabotage yourself as your eyes are on the wrong prize.
The answer is to stop dieting once and for all and instead begin creating a life that is worth living.
Listen to this week’s episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast for more tips and tricks on how to stop sabotaging your healing process.
Read Deb Oswald‘s blog here.
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Love and light,
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