December 17th, 2011 
rexharris 
The words diet and weight loss have run side by side, like two childhood friends, for as long as I can remember. Even today when people speak of weight loss they tell their friends and family that they are going on a diet. Then they tell their Twitter followers, Facebook fans and the rest of the world through the social media. Before you know it everyone knows that Bill, Bob, Barb or Beth are on a diet because they are trying to lose weight.
Diet and weight loss are synonymous, but are they synonymous for the reasons people have been programmed to believe they are? Going on a diet for the purposes of losing weight really doesn’t carry any meaning. Diet consists of daily food choices and level of consumption. Either a diet is healthy or it is not. Therefore, in human terms, you are always on a diet.
Where diet and weight loss do come together is when a dietary change is made to improve the quality of food choices for the purposes of returning the body to a healthy weight.
The more I learn about life the more I realize that even the phrase diet and weight loss needs to be reconfigured. Granted, it is the commonly accepted expression in regards to return the body to a normal, healthy weight, but in terms of loss… life would teach us that loss leads to greater loss. In terms of weight loss, however, that’s not the case IF you look at loss in the traditional sense as it has been linked to diet.
Many people hold on to weight as part of their identity. Their identity is in the body, not in the reality of mind. When it’s lost they lose that identity and the weight comes back. I believe that’s one of the main reasons that we hear so many stories of people who have lost weight only to put it all back on. They haven’t lost just the weight, they have lost themselves.
What if the mission were different? What if the mission wasn’t to lose weight but to find the healthy, happy you? People want to lose weight because, in most cases, they are not happy with the way they look and feel because, once again, their identity is in the body. Finding the healthy, happy you makes the journey look much more appealing than does diet and weight loss.
Tips: Set your mind on what the new healthy YOU will look like, feel like, eat like and be like. Keep that image in your mind every time you make a food choice, every time you exercise and in all that you do. See, feel and be you! This way you are not losing an identity but returning to who you REALLY are. The unhealthy, unhappy you is not who you are, it’s something that you have made. That is something that diet and weight loss will never have the power to change.
Your mind is your greatest tool in rediscovering who you TRULY are in the first place. As the return to you begins you will remember who you are and find your way home. As you remember, diet and weight loss will no longer have any meaning. In your remembering you will begin to recognize the healthy, happy you. The happy, healthy you will begin to manifest in the image of your body!
Why lose weight when you can gain so much more by simply returning to who you are in the first place?
For personal assistance in your journey call 239-603-6652 and ask for Rex.
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You are so right Rex. When it comes to diet and weight loss, mind and body are not separate entities. I think we often get confused because they may not always be in sync. The body that we have in reality, often does not match up with the one we have or want in our mind. Like you say, getting an image of the body we want inside and out, and being persistent each day in making the right choices to attain that body will eventually lead to it being in sync with our minds eye.