BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU EAT
What do you gain when you lose weight? By using the Talk to Me© positive and effective communication system, Empathizer-type communicators, who often struggle with weight issues, can stop eating compulsively. How? By focusing their thoughts on what will be gained by eating sensibly. You’re eating life is going to get a whole lot healthier…if you want it to.
WHAT DO YOU GAIN WHEN YOU LOSE WEIGHT?
It’s not about looks. It’s not about the weight you are. Losing weight is not the goal. Breaking the thought pattern is the plan. E-types are able to change long-standing habit patterns of eating by focusing on positive thoughts and results. You can change the spots on a leopard. How? By changing the thought processes, healthy eating habits will emerge, resulting in feeling healthier almost immediately.
FOCUS YOUR AWARENESS ON GOOD THINGS YOU GAIN BY EATING SENSIBLY
Write down a list in black-and-white about what you will gain when you lose weight. Make sure to list at least 15 good outcomes. Preferably, send this list to yourself in an e-mail and flag it as important. Print out the list, or put the list on a card to carry with you and pull out whenever you eat. Don’t try to change what you eat but how you think about the outcomes of your eating. One client’s list is used as illustration below.
Whenever I eat, I will now think about these things which I will gain when my weight decreases:
- I can hold my grandbaby
- I can get up from a chair easily
- I won’t get winded when I walk
- I can buy clothes in more stores
- I can fit into booths when I play darts
- I can put lotion on my feet
- I will be able to tie my shoes without straining
- I will feel healthy
- I will feel better about myself
- I will have a healthy relationship with a mature guy
- I will put positive people and things into my life
- I can do more things I enjoy
- I will love and approve of myself
- I will encourage good things to happen
- I will be independent
- I will do what I want to do
- I will figure out what I like
- I will do what I’ve never done before
- I will be in charge of my life
HOW TO BE AWARE OF THE AMOUNT YOU EAT…
Eat in awareness! It’s all about you! When eating compulsively, or when you’re compulsively thinking about eating, you aren’t aware of what or how much you eat, nor do you remember what you ate. The Million Dollar Talk Tool creates awareness of eating while you’re eating, which creates permanent change! It’s all about how you feel and think about the freedom to love your life and those in it.
MILLION DOLLAR TALK TOOL…WHILE EATING I THINK ABOUT WHAT I WILL GAIN BY NOT EATING COMPULSIVELY
In my experience, Empathizers have more struggles with weight issues than do Instigators. Each talk type preference produces desired changes quite differently. OK, Hear Ye All Empathizers: Whenever you eat (or think of eating), try to think of how you will profit by letting go of unnecessary eating. You’ll be glad you’re regaining your independence by caring for yourself.
ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS PSYCHOLOGIST, DENNIS E. O’GRADY
Dennis O’Grady, Psy.D., is known as the Talk Doc since the advent of his positive and effective communication system, Talk2Me©. Dennis is a corporate consultant and team trainer, while maintaining a private practice which focuses on improving communication. His Talk2Me© training programs for Dayton Freight Lines (Regional LTL Transportation Services); Morris South (CNC Machine Tool Distribution); Parts Express (Electronics E-Retailer); and Motoman (World Leader in Robotic Solutions). Dennis is president of the Dayton Psychological Association and is a clinical professor at the Wright State University School of Professional Psychology. His talk textbook, Talk to Me: Communication Moves to Get Along With Anyone, received the 2008 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal. Not much time to read? Check out www.drogrady.com for hundreds of blogs dedicated to Dennis’s communication approach. You can contact the Talk Doc at 937.428.0724, or email him from the website.