What are you hungry for?
This question hits home for me as I have lost 110 lbs in the last year.
Are you hungry for food?
Are you hungry for companionship?
Are you hungry for love?
Are you hungry for acceptance?
Are you hungry for comfort?
Do you hunger to be valued?
In your mind, is there a difference between any of these?
In my mind, food used to be an answer for all of those questions and more. There was a control and calmness I felt with food that I didn’t anywhere else in my life. Also, for me, food was a numbing agent. I didn’t have to think about things such as acceptance, love, companionship, and being valued. I felt like food was the answer. It was what I looked forward to, and you could tell by seeing my body.
Early last year, I was fooled by a company that promised to help me lose weight by paying them a ridiculous amount of money for food plus “support” and they would give you a health coach to help you along the way. The “health coach” I was given was obese and out of control herself and ended up not only taking advantage of me monetarily but she did so in many other selfish ways. You live and you learn, right? Money Wise, she only got one month worth of payment out of me but she is such a sad person that she tried to take so much more over the next few months. Don’t be fooled by the vultures waiting to rip you apart. I know from experience that I did not need this obese “health” coach or her baggage to lose weight. I did have my eyes opened to the sadness of obesity that was hiding within me through seeing her poor example of being a so-called mentor. I was able to take control of my life and teach myself to eat for fuel and when I am truly physically hungry, not when I need something else like love or companionship. I learned that life is not fair, but we can choose to treat ourselves more than fair.
We can love ourselves.
We have the power to do that through acceptance and forgiveness. We have the power to let go and move on. I share this all in the hope of someone else being freed from a situation where you feel powerless.
I share this in the hope of never being the victim, but the victor in your own life.
I have been told that through the so-called coach’s sad circumstances she has ok’d everything she has done in the name of being a victim. Don’t be a victim today…own who you are and what you do and have done in truth and honesty.
So with all of this, what are you truly hungry for today?
Pay attention to yourself, to your body, to your needs so that you can truly be who you were meant to be. Live in the moment and listen to your soul today.
Be hungry for life and all it has to offer you today.
Listen to the hunger in your soul and respond accordingly.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. -Jean Ingelow
Your attempt at goodness only matters if you make it right with that one person you chose to hurt instead of help. -C. Saliaris
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. -A. N. Wilson
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. -Salvador Dali