" I really want to lose weight/get rid of my IBS/stop my Crohn's symptoms. .and I know a TON about diets. I have tried south beach, jenny craig, I don't eat after 6. . . ."
Want another diet? Maybe a side of "the next fad machine that will be a coat rack" with that? I could help you out with the former and will steer you away from most of the latter but in most cases it never gets that far as the people that end up on the couch in my little office many times are still looking for that diet instead of the solution to their seemingly never-ending "struggle" to lose weight.
Even years ago I used to have this thought that it was more about coaxing the fat off the body rather than the "war" on fat. I guess you can look around at all the wars and realize that this approach just does not work. For example, there is a huge war on drugs going on in the US and it just is not working. .there are a lot of so-called wars in fact going on constantly. When I do manage to waste some time looking at the old tube it never surprises me to see that those wars are worse than ever and not even close to doing any good.
So think about that next time you are flipping through some magazine with the image of your favorite fitness person in mind and wishing that you looked just like that etc. Or even if it is a vision of a new you in your mind. If that is what you really want, you need to "step off the rails" of the diet train and step onto the rails of the "Karma Cleaning" train. In other words, are you destined for another diet?
Or, are you really going to go inside yourself and ask some penetrating questions of that little person that is always telling you to do bad stuff . . .like that big sandwich you just ate and you were not even aware of until it was too late. If you are beating your "SELF" up about it, take a step back and ask that "self" why he/she ate that big _____ (insert food you consider bad here) and then locate the feelings in your body about it and instead of pushing them away and denying they are there, stay with them and "see" and feel them. Is it anger? Guilt? Shame?
What it is that is making you go back constantly for another helping of "painful dieting" punishment? Those feelings and body sensations will tell you a lot about why you just ate that big sandwich and they might just save you a pile of money that you were about to waste on that next leg of the "diet train" trip.
Ready to get off the train?
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