Weight Loss for People Who Feel Too Much by Colette Baron-Reid Page B
Authors: Colette Baron-Reid
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Insights; and letâs get started with Step One: Speak Your Truth.
KEEP IN MIND â¦
⢠People who feel too much tend to go back and forth between being very emotional and avoiding emotions altogether. As you learn to manage your emotions and your porous boundaries, these wild fluctuations will decrease. Your emotions will settle down and you wonât feel so compelled to ground with food.
⢠Disordered eating leads to weight gain, eating the wrong kinds of foods, and blood sugar fluctuations that tax our bodies.
⢠Besides grounding with food or eating in a disordered way, we detour around painful emotions by obsessing over food and weight, and setting up unrealistic goals for eating. Working this program will help with this unhealthy eating pattern. Pay attention to any signs that you have an eating disorder and need professional help.
⢠Avoid noisy foods: those you crave for physical and emotional reasons because of their associations (such as salty processed foods, or the sweet treats you used to make with Grandma).
⢠While working this program, hide your scale. How your clothes fit is a better indicator of whether youâre losing or gaining weight.
⢠Eat slowly and mindfully. Every meal has to have a beginning, middle, and end. No eating standing up or kidding yourself about calories consumed while youâre on the run and avoiding your emotions!
⢠Every morning, write in your journal what you intend to accomplish. Each evening, write in your journal about how well you did and why, and identify at least one thing you did right.
⢠Do any daily journal writing required the first week of each step.
⢠Be kind to yourself. Battling your weight or your body is counterproductive. Be loving and self-compassionate and youâll see better results.
⢠Use the IN-Vizion Process. IN-Vizion exercises, scattered throughout the book, are great ways to access your hidden, inner wisdom and process painful emotions using prompts for visualization.
⢠Do a Himalayan salt bath ritual daily at 4:00 P . M . (when you can) incorporating the Emotional Freedom Technique of using affirmations and tapping to clear up disturbances in your bodyâs energy field caused by your thoughts or emotions. You will wash off the detritus of the day and relax as a result. If you need to, do a saltwater spritz and change an article of clothing at 4:00 P . M . and do the bath later in the day. Use a combination of pure essential oils, Epsom salts, and the highest quality Himalayan salt.
⢠Keep it simple. Follow a simple eating plan, do simple movement, and maintain a simple emotional field. Avoid stimulants and depressants such as coffee and alcohol and consider cutting out sugar and gluten, which can be noisy foods that trigger disordered eating. Donât worry about exercise; just move your body to stay healthy. Avoid stimulating your emotions by consuming media.
PART THREE
Four Steps to Managing Your Porous Boundaries
4
Step One: Speak Your Truth (âYep, Iâm a Person Who Feels Too Much!â)
You have probably suspected for some time, maybe even most of your life, that youâre a little different from other people. You feel more deeply and are more sensitive. You have difficulty separating yourself from other peopleâs emotions. You are powerfully affected by anger, grief, and fear that isnât your own. Somehow, youâre just more vulnerable to the emotional energy that surrounds you.
Can you own that? Can you admit to it? Can you say aloud, âYep, thatâs me, Iâm a person who feels too much!â
Speaking your truth is difficult because it requires that you acknowledge your vulnerability. You have to be honest with yourself and then, eventually, be honest with others, too. Thatâs especially scary because you have to carefully choose the people youâll confide in. Iâm asking you to speak your truth to yourself so
KEEP IN MIND â¦
⢠People who feel too much tend to go back and forth between being very emotional and avoiding emotions altogether. As you learn to manage your emotions and your porous boundaries, these wild fluctuations will decrease. Your emotions will settle down and you wonât feel so compelled to ground with food.
⢠Disordered eating leads to weight gain, eating the wrong kinds of foods, and blood sugar fluctuations that tax our bodies.
⢠Besides grounding with food or eating in a disordered way, we detour around painful emotions by obsessing over food and weight, and setting up unrealistic goals for eating. Working this program will help with this unhealthy eating pattern. Pay attention to any signs that you have an eating disorder and need professional help.
⢠Avoid noisy foods: those you crave for physical and emotional reasons because of their associations (such as salty processed foods, or the sweet treats you used to make with Grandma).
⢠While working this program, hide your scale. How your clothes fit is a better indicator of whether youâre losing or gaining weight.
⢠Eat slowly and mindfully. Every meal has to have a beginning, middle, and end. No eating standing up or kidding yourself about calories consumed while youâre on the run and avoiding your emotions!
⢠Every morning, write in your journal what you intend to accomplish. Each evening, write in your journal about how well you did and why, and identify at least one thing you did right.
⢠Do any daily journal writing required the first week of each step.
⢠Be kind to yourself. Battling your weight or your body is counterproductive. Be loving and self-compassionate and youâll see better results.
⢠Use the IN-Vizion Process. IN-Vizion exercises, scattered throughout the book, are great ways to access your hidden, inner wisdom and process painful emotions using prompts for visualization.
⢠Do a Himalayan salt bath ritual daily at 4:00 P . M . (when you can) incorporating the Emotional Freedom Technique of using affirmations and tapping to clear up disturbances in your bodyâs energy field caused by your thoughts or emotions. You will wash off the detritus of the day and relax as a result. If you need to, do a saltwater spritz and change an article of clothing at 4:00 P . M . and do the bath later in the day. Use a combination of pure essential oils, Epsom salts, and the highest quality Himalayan salt.
⢠Keep it simple. Follow a simple eating plan, do simple movement, and maintain a simple emotional field. Avoid stimulants and depressants such as coffee and alcohol and consider cutting out sugar and gluten, which can be noisy foods that trigger disordered eating. Donât worry about exercise; just move your body to stay healthy. Avoid stimulating your emotions by consuming media.
PART THREE
Four Steps to Managing Your Porous Boundaries
4
Step One: Speak Your Truth (âYep, Iâm a Person Who Feels Too Much!â)
You have probably suspected for some time, maybe even most of your life, that youâre a little different from other people. You feel more deeply and are more sensitive. You have difficulty separating yourself from other peopleâs emotions. You are powerfully affected by anger, grief, and fear that isnât your own. Somehow, youâre just more vulnerable to the emotional energy that surrounds you.
Can you own that? Can you admit to it? Can you say aloud, âYep, thatâs me, Iâm a person who feels too much!â
Speaking your truth is difficult because it requires that you acknowledge your vulnerability. You have to be honest with yourself and then, eventually, be honest with others, too. Thatâs especially scary because you have to carefully choose the people youâll confide in. Iâm asking you to speak your truth to yourself so
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