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I'm writing the book version of The Food Philosophy. It's hard work and slow. It's trial and error for me as it's something I've never done before. I find I'm afraid and a little uncomfortable with it as I'm unsure of whether I'm doing it right or not. I could let this fear stop me. It doesn't feel very nice and I find it would be much easier to just sit back and do nothing. If I do nothing, the fear goes away because I avoid the possibility of failing.
After all, I've told people that I'm writing a book. If something goes wrong or no one wants to buy it, I'll feel humiliated. It would be much easier not to try at all.
That's all lies, as you've probably guessed. But it is the way the majority of people think. What they don't realise is that if they don't try, they've already failed. Motivation is a funny subject. If someone looks at the FP website and is scared by the uncertainty of a future they don’t recognise – one without overeating as a big part of their life - they often stop in their tracks and I have to talk them round in the forum. The biggest and most usual fear is that, as soon as you see that you really don’t have to spend the rest of your life trying to control what you eat, you wonder what you’re going to do with your time.
This might sound irrational but think about it - food, weight issues, calories, resistance, guilt, self reproach, shame, stress and internal argument have filled your mind up for so much of your life that to imagine a future where it has gone makes you feel like there is a huge gap or hole and you can’t conceive of finding anything else interesting enough to fill it. It can be a really frightening experience.
There is nothing to be afraid of. When you start to gain real control over food and your self esteem goes up and you start to look outwards at life instead of back in at yourself, your life fills up naturally with all of the exciting things that it should have been filled with in the first place. There is no void or gap or hole – it’s an illusion.
To stop overeating and end all of its nasty side effects is not frightening, it’s like waking up from an anaesthetic – you suddenly realise what it actually feels like to be alive. As long as you’re in the overeating trap, you’ll never know the reality of living because you’re stuck behind a wall that blocks any real experience and all you feel is a dull sort of grey boredom and the only real thing that can make you feel anything is food.
Your life can be in full, glorious Technicolor – if you don’t let the fear stop you.
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