In The Begining...

The beginning of my 'weight loss' career was in Violet Hill Studios, North London, UK. I ran weekly self-help support groups for compulsive eating women. It was then that I started to writing about the holistic weight loss method that I was teaching. Our focus week in, week out, was looking at the emotional stuff that would drive them personally to eat when full. We talked about what it entailed to give up dieting. We discussed fears of weight gain and fears of being too skinny. I encouraged them to accept themselves as they were at the larger size and the emotional issues that surfaced to be healed were varied.

This is still the way it works. If you want to lose weight for good you have got to listen to your hunger and fullness sensations and not just those emanating from your stomach. Your mind has hungers and your Spirit has hungers. What satisfies your mind? Intellectual pursuits? Reading? What satisfies your emotions? Fulfilling friendships, feeling appreciated, feeling loved and accepted for who you really are? So the hungers and fullness of mind, body and soul are really acknowledged and no longer swept under the carpet of outmoded convention.

A new life. Yes, the giving up of eating when full is the beginning of a new life.

Join me for my upcoming Summer workshops or have a one to one Skype / Facebook Video Call Session £45

For Further information email sofia2227@gmail.com or sofia@trueslimness.co.uk.

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