Your Diet As A Spiritual Journey
And as with all journeys – a diet has a beginning, middle and an end.
Every part of the journey ahead of you has its own set of hardships.
In this first part of the eBook I want to detail some of these hardships that I have notices in my own journey as well as others.
The beginning of the journey is always filled with doubt and fear.
Starting a Diet is a serious decision.
A lot of people tend to take this decision lightly only to find themselves making it over and over again when their diet fails.
To start a journey you want to the right tools with you: you need a good understanding of what you’re up against,
You need self awareness to your weaknesses,
And you need the right mind set.
My suggestion to you: take your time and accumulate some knowledge.
Aqcuire some knowledge about dieting in general and about dieting experiences in specific.
Also, Get aquainted with yourself – learn what are your abilities, what kind of healthy food do you tolerate, how fit you are.
Learn about the different diets that are out there and figure out which will be most suitable for you.
All of these will give you some clue to where you are heading.
And most importantly - Make sure you’re beginning the journey for the right reasons.
Are you doing this for yourself? A relunctent traveler is a weary traveler.
What is your inner motivation? Why are you really eager to lose weight? Find your inner motivation and keep it close to your heart. This part of the diet is yours and yours alone.
Good answers to these questions will make less hesitatent to make the first steps.
The middle of is the journey is filled with many pits you might fall into.
First, you will have to face your doubts: Are you losing weight fast enough?
Is the investment of time really worth it?
Second, almost every dieter faces a certain level of exhaustion.
Third, almost every dieter slips from time to time and eats something he or she knows they shouldn’t.
These are all to be expected, and as such, they shouldn’t frighten you.
Be prepared for them with the help of your family and friends standing by to give you support.
Be honest to yourself and them about your hardships.
Allow them to encourage you.
Make sure you take time for yourself and get enough rest.
If you’re on a very unbalanced and unhealthy diet there is always time to change it.
There is always time to learn something new.
Then it finally comes true, the end of your journey.
You step on the scale one morning and see that you’ve lost what you aimed for.
You start to get compliments from your friends and co-workers.
You did it!
Is there something more to learn? I think there is.
There is a saying in Zen-Buddhism that translates to something like: once you think you know everything – then you can be sure you don’t really get it.
The meaning is this: you should always be aware of yourself.
If you stop taking care of yourself, you’ll get back to old habits and find out you need another diet pretty soon.
Also, it means that there is always room for growth.
There is always something that you can do better.
If you’ve lost weight, take care of your health.
If you’re completely healthy, work on becoming a better person.
This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t love yourself or your life.
On the contrary, you should love yourself for working hard you do to better yourself.
This is true even if you haven’t yet lost one pound – not many people are willing to improve there life. Do not underestimate that.
And one last thought for conclusion:
In the “Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy and her friends’ goal was to get to the Emerald city to see the Wizard.
When they finally met him they found out that their goal didn’t matter all that much – it was actually the long journey on the yellow brick road that was the most important.
If you put all your effort in life in chasing the next goal – you will never find satisfaction. There will always be another goal to chase.
So what I’m saying to you is this: If the road towards the goal is at least as important as the goal itself, try you best to enjoy the view along the way.
That is a hard lesson to learn, but if you implement it in advance it will make your diet experience much more enjoyable, and because of that – much easier to sustain for a long time.
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Good luck,
David H. Mason
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