What Is It About Weight Control?
It amazes me that in this day and age, I still get calls asking me if I will help someone "stop eating." Sheesh! Folks still have it in their consciousness to be skinny. Remember that Jewish Mother that I told you about? The one who told me that the only purpose in life (or at least the most important one) was to be happy? Well, that same Jewish Mother also asked me "Do you really want to eat that?" Who heard of such a thing? Aren't Jewish Mothers supposed to tell you to eat? It will make you feel better? And believe it or not, my own father, who was a physician, GAVE me diet pills to lose weight. Which I promptly became addicted to. Although I did lose 30 pounds in one month! Now mind you, at the time I was NOT overweight. I'm 5'9" and after losing all that weight I was down to 125. TOO THIN!!! But smoking helped keep me thin (after I lost all that weight to please my father) and I kicked my addiction to diet pills (was THAT gnarly!) But hey, I was skinny. Wasn't that all that mattered?
There came a point in my life when I decided some very serious and real stuff. That it isn't about being skinny. And it isn't about just looking good on the outside. I wanted it to be about health. The first thing I knew I had to do was to quit smoking. How to do that? Hmm. Believe it or not, at the time, I was a poker dealer! Okay, that didn't fit my new vision of myself. I'd better quit that job first because I knew I would not be able to quit smoking and sustain a healthy lifestyle if I were breathing in clouds of cigarette smoke. I remembered that I had taken a self-hypnosis course from Pat Collins "The Hip Hypnotist" when I was nineteen. Okay. I'll quit that way. Self-hypnosis. So I did. On April 27, 1992 at 10:30am I had my last cigarette. My mom died of emphysema, so I decided in honor of her life, to go to school to become a hypnotherapist to help people quit smoking. And remember folks, I was skinny - too, too skinny. So without thinking too much about how I was hypnotizing myself for that, I told myself that I had to gain some weight. I could and that would be just fine. But I forgot to tell myself how much! Okay, so forty pounds later, (now 165), I gained all the weight I want to gain (okay, and maybe a little more). But I don't care! As long as I am healthy, and I have healthy habits, I don't care! Now I'm wonderfully zaftig!
What it has to be about, must be about, can only be about is healthy habits - for life! I'm involved in a weight management mastermind group, and I brought up the point that maybe, just maybe someday, it won't be about weight management or weight control or weight loss or being skinny anymore. It will be about health. I believe that any hypnotherapist with any ethics whatsoever, will want to help their clients reach their healthy goals and habits - for life. And they will help those clients shift their paradigms from the need to be skinny, to the desire for health and well-being. Oy vey, I can only wish!
Love, Steph
There came a point in my life when I decided some very serious and real stuff. That it isn't about being skinny. And it isn't about just looking good on the outside. I wanted it to be about health. The first thing I knew I had to do was to quit smoking. How to do that? Hmm. Believe it or not, at the time, I was a poker dealer! Okay, that didn't fit my new vision of myself. I'd better quit that job first because I knew I would not be able to quit smoking and sustain a healthy lifestyle if I were breathing in clouds of cigarette smoke. I remembered that I had taken a self-hypnosis course from Pat Collins "The Hip Hypnotist" when I was nineteen. Okay. I'll quit that way. Self-hypnosis. So I did. On April 27, 1992 at 10:30am I had my last cigarette. My mom died of emphysema, so I decided in honor of her life, to go to school to become a hypnotherapist to help people quit smoking. And remember folks, I was skinny - too, too skinny. So without thinking too much about how I was hypnotizing myself for that, I told myself that I had to gain some weight. I could and that would be just fine. But I forgot to tell myself how much! Okay, so forty pounds later, (now 165), I gained all the weight I want to gain (okay, and maybe a little more). But I don't care! As long as I am healthy, and I have healthy habits, I don't care! Now I'm wonderfully zaftig!
What it has to be about, must be about, can only be about is healthy habits - for life! I'm involved in a weight management mastermind group, and I brought up the point that maybe, just maybe someday, it won't be about weight management or weight control or weight loss or being skinny anymore. It will be about health. I believe that any hypnotherapist with any ethics whatsoever, will want to help their clients reach their healthy goals and habits - for life. And they will help those clients shift their paradigms from the need to be skinny, to the desire for health and well-being. Oy vey, I can only wish!
Love, Steph
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