What is the Fat Box?
How to Break Out of the Fat Box
By Dr. Matthew Anderson
Exclusive for eDiets
Every fat person lives in a Fat Box. This box is not visible but it is extremely real and totally controls their ability to lose weight and to keep it off. Sadly most weight-challenged persons don’t know it exists and they pay a massive price in weight gain, self-esteem and even their ability to participate joyfully in their own lives.
Your Personal Fat Box: How to Break Out
Fat Boxes are made up of attitudes, beliefs and old habits all formed in childhood. They subtly and powerfully shape our bodies, our self-image and the way we relate to food and life in general. Most weight-challenged persons remain trapped in the gain/lose/gain cycle because they are unaware of this fact. Therefore, the issue is not whether a Fat-Box controls your weight but whether or not you will confront and break out of it.
Here are some questions that will help you identify the “walls” of your Fat Box. It is important that you consider each answer carefully and thoroughly. Don’t decide that any question does not apply to you. Just look a little harder. What you find can change your life.
1. Who wants you to stay fat? I am serious about this. Most weight-challenged persons are surrounded by family and friends who “enable” their bad eating habits and weight gain.
2. How does staying overweight serve or protect you? From life, sex, your personal power, men/women, being visible, etc.
3. How has being overweight defined your personality, your relationships and your self-expression?
4. What would you do with your mind, your emotions and your life if you were not constantly focused on food and fat?
Here are some questions that will help you break out of your Fat Box.
1. Can you imagine what you will look like when you drop all that weight? Write a description and place it on your fridge.
2. Imagine that you have all the power and ability you need to face life as it is. How will this change your behavior?
3. Write a letter to the people who want you to stay fat. Tell them that you are breaking out of your fat box and that they have no say in who or what you are or will be any more! Do not mail it. Read it out loud to yourself every day for 30 days. This is an extremely powerful exercise. Take the risk of feeling foolish and do it!
To be successful at breaking out of the Fat Box will require you to find some courage and face some fears. Most weight-challenged individuals are deeply attached to being overweight and discover great resistance when they get close to their ideal weight. Your task at that point is to refuse to attack yourself or decide that you lack will power.
The problem is not your will but your deep-seated attitudes about who you are and can be. The solution is in learning to create a new image of yourself and your possibilities that is not defined by your old programs. With some work you will be successful at breaking out and being forever thin.
If you want more powerful and effective tools for breaking out of your old self-limiting box and into your greatest possibilities, then email me and ask for information about my new 10-week Internet course and CD BREAKTHROUGH: Breaking out of the box into your new possibilities. My address is DRA@DrAusa.com .
Check out our 24 customizable plans. Nothing is more important than your health! Click here to visit eDiets
By Dr. Matthew Anderson
Exclusive for eDiets
Every fat person lives in a Fat Box. This box is not visible but it is extremely real and totally controls their ability to lose weight and to keep it off. Sadly most weight-challenged persons don’t know it exists and they pay a massive price in weight gain, self-esteem and even their ability to participate joyfully in their own lives.
Abandoning your unhealthy habits and adopting a more healthy lifestyle can improve your mood and self-esteem? Click here to visit eDietsIf you want to be forever thin, you need detailed information about your own Fat Box and you also need the proper tools for breaking out of it. The information I have shared with you below will get you started. This process has worked for me (65-pound fat loss) and for many thousands of weight-challenged individuals. It will work for you, too.
Your Personal Fat Box: How to Break Out
Fat Boxes are made up of attitudes, beliefs and old habits all formed in childhood. They subtly and powerfully shape our bodies, our self-image and the way we relate to food and life in general. Most weight-challenged persons remain trapped in the gain/lose/gain cycle because they are unaware of this fact. Therefore, the issue is not whether a Fat-Box controls your weight but whether or not you will confront and break out of it.
Here are some questions that will help you identify the “walls” of your Fat Box. It is important that you consider each answer carefully and thoroughly. Don’t decide that any question does not apply to you. Just look a little harder. What you find can change your life.
1. Who wants you to stay fat? I am serious about this. Most weight-challenged persons are surrounded by family and friends who “enable” their bad eating habits and weight gain.
2. How does staying overweight serve or protect you? From life, sex, your personal power, men/women, being visible, etc.
3. How has being overweight defined your personality, your relationships and your self-expression?
4. What would you do with your mind, your emotions and your life if you were not constantly focused on food and fat?
Here are some questions that will help you break out of your Fat Box.
1. Can you imagine what you will look like when you drop all that weight? Write a description and place it on your fridge.
2. Imagine that you have all the power and ability you need to face life as it is. How will this change your behavior?
3. Write a letter to the people who want you to stay fat. Tell them that you are breaking out of your fat box and that they have no say in who or what you are or will be any more! Do not mail it. Read it out loud to yourself every day for 30 days. This is an extremely powerful exercise. Take the risk of feeling foolish and do it!
To be successful at breaking out of the Fat Box will require you to find some courage and face some fears. Most weight-challenged individuals are deeply attached to being overweight and discover great resistance when they get close to their ideal weight. Your task at that point is to refuse to attack yourself or decide that you lack will power.
The problem is not your will but your deep-seated attitudes about who you are and can be. The solution is in learning to create a new image of yourself and your possibilities that is not defined by your old programs. With some work you will be successful at breaking out and being forever thin.
If you want more powerful and effective tools for breaking out of your old self-limiting box and into your greatest possibilities, then email me and ask for information about my new 10-week Internet course and CD BREAKTHROUGH: Breaking out of the box into your new possibilities. My address is DRA@DrAusa.com .
Matthew Anderson, D. Min., is a counselor, organizational consultant, seminar leader and the author of books and tapes that can help you overcome your obstacles to well-being. To learn more about Dr. Anderson, click here. eDiets members can join Dr. Anderson for his special chats the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. EST.
Check out our 24 customizable plans. Nothing is more important than your health! Click here to visit eDiets
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