One major theme I always see with eating disorders and teen anorexia is the non-stop self inflicted mental torture teens place on them. I get it, I was there, weighing over 500 pounds, and all I could see is disgust.
Today, I love who I am, not just physically but more importantly mentally. Still, when I face rejection I have that moment of self-doubt. However, I see that moment for what it truly is, a single moment in time. A single moment I placed a feeling, which I have attached and allowed. Truth is everyone at some point has insecure thoughts about their image. I have been around some of the most beautiful women, handsome men and still they have moments of doubt.
However, today I have never felt more powerful, believed in others and myself as strongly as I do today. This inner greatness, as I call it, is your true self worth, beauty, image, and sex appeal. Because, when I am around physically desirable people, I just see a person, and I remain myself. I have nothing to prove, nothing to hide, and no reason to not be fully confident in any situation. I know this because of The Law of Attraction and my faith in God has shown me the true power to over come an eating disorder. It also has shown me I become more desirable to others because of the pure energy, happiness, and unselfish Love I project. See, people say it's being cocky, nope just confidence and allowing my greatness to project through my dreams.
You need to become aware of the negative thoughts surrounding you about weight. "If I eat that, I'll get fat." "Obesity is genetic and can't be controlled." "It's hard to lose weight." Now, these extremely common statements and regularly accepted "facts" are part of the root cause of teens and adults, obesity problems. What we accept, we allow. What we believe is.
If you have accepted that eating certain foods will make you fat, and then proceed to eat them because you like them, you may expect to grow fat. If you accept that obesity is genetic, you will not attempt to lose weight. You won't even try to envision your new body you deserve. If you accept that losing weight is difficult, as almost anyone will happily tell you, then you are agreeing that your path to losing weight must be difficult, if not impossible.
Step back and take a good hard look at your beliefs about diet, exercise, and weight. Do you believe that because you are a couch potato or a computer geek, your lack of exercise will cause you to become fat? Then don't be surprised when it happens. Do you believe that eating the large fries instead of small is going to probably make you fat? You're probably already gaining weight. Our beliefs, thoughts and expectations firmly dictate our reality. So if you want to change your reality, first you need to change your thoughts.
This world of solid matter is not nearly as solid as it appears. This world is in fact woven from a maelstrom of subatomic particles, whizzing and whirling around, inhabiting less than 1% of all space. These particles can simply blink in and out of existence and teleport from one spot to another. That's not science fiction - that's science fact.
Let's take it up a few levels, and you have the human cells. Most of the cells in your body die and are replaced fairly frequently. These cells grow according to what you place in your body and what nutrients they are given or deprived of. If you begin a healthy lifestyle now, the potential for fast bodily change is very real, but you must be aware that this is possible, otherwise you are going to fall back onto the old stockpile belief of "losing weight is hard".
Your thoughts can easily manipulate your reality, and what could you possibly have more control over than your own physical body, the one apparatus in the physical world with which you do not appear to have a disconnect? (All disconnection from the external world is false, but appears to be real).
The most important thing in weight loss is your mental bodily image. Every day you look at yourself in the mirror. While staring at yourself you snarl at your weight. You groan that you do not look the way you want to. You twist, turn and contort yourself and look with disgust at the part or parts of your body that you are unhappy with. This is feeding negative energy into your bodily image, and that's exactly what you will attract - more things to feel disgusted with about your body.
When you see yourself in the mirror, stop judging yourself and begin loving yourself. That body carries you around, and you should be grateful that you have one at all! Fully accept your body as it is right now, and decide that you would like to change it in order to give yourself a happier, healthier existence. Again, accept your body in the mirror, and stop snarling and judging yourself. When you love your body, then naturally your body will feel better and will become healthier. As this happens your body will naturally shift to fit the image that you are holding in your mind: a healthier, thinner body. You will never lose weight while you judge yourself fat. That is rule number 1, and unfortunately that is the rule that 99% of people break from the get-go.
Because of all the teenagers I have spoke to struggling with Anorexia let me take this one step further. Think about this, I have hugged skeletons looking for hope, feeling pressure from ribs pressed against my body. I see emptiness, pain, with no life, inside a skeletal body. You look in the mirror you see nothing but fat. So, can you see how distorted the mirror truly is. Anorexia is a mirror affect; you only see fat, pain, and misery. Anorexia takes more of a mental control and now the world becomes the mirror. You don't see the beauty, feel the laughter or love, because the world is your mirror, and your thoughts. Because, the world is your mirror and thoughts all you see and feel is what you project.
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