SQL Computer programming for Beginners: The Practical Step by Step Guide, to Master the Fundamentals of SQL Database Programming Made Simple and Stress-Free, that Will Get You Hired by Foster Matt

Author:Foster, Matt [Foster, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 - Your “Relationship” with Food

We Are a Collection of Patterns

In these next chapters of the book, we're going to talk about your relationship with food, and first, we're going to talk about patterns of behavior. Now yo-yo dieting is a pattern of behavior done repeatedly. All actions and thoughts that are done regularly, eventually become habits. As we discussed in the previous part of this book, patterns are the method that the brain uses to conserve energy. If you do something repetitively over and over, you don't have to think about it after a while, you do it, so it requires less energy. If we have a pattern of behavior that gets done repeatedly, it eventually becomes a habit.

Then we have something called habituation, and it's normalizing a pattern of thought and behavior. When you have a situation of habituation, it becomes normal; it becomes something that you don't have to think about, it doesn't stop you in your tracks. It becomes something that's just part of you; it becomes part of your identity. And over time, it becomes less and less evident that it is happening.

Now let's do a quick exercise; think of a statement that if someone said it to you, it would shock you. Now take that same statement and imagine you saying it to yourself. If you say something like, "I'm disgusting, fat and ugly." That's a visceral statement. And hopefully, saying that should shock you.

Now imagine saying that states, "I'm disgusting, fat and ugly," over and over, every single day. "I'm disgusting, fat and ugly," over and over. With each day that passes, you say it to yourself over and over and over, "I'm disgusting, fat, and ugly."

Now imagine there comes a time in the future where the shock of saying that diminishes, you say it with almost a friendly tone. "I'm disgusting, fat, and ugly." Now, if you say it over and over again, what happens is that the emotional impact of it diminishes, but the influence of it on your decisions continues. You are saying that it becomes so normalized that it becomes an offhand comment. "Oh, I'm disgusting, fat, and ugly." But it doesn't have the same emotional stopping you in your tracks sensation. But that's the problem with it, you don't think about it, you say it, and it influences your decisions.

Now this happens all the time with weight. I see it all the time with clients; they'll say something about themselves that's quite shocking actually to think that that person thinks that about themselves. But they will say it just as an offhand comment because it's so normalized in their life.

So, when you think about that, what we can begin to do is become aware of those and then start to change it. There are two ways that we would go about changing thoughts - become aware of our thoughts and intentionally change them. Then also changing everything around us and everything about ourselves so that if we said that it would feel incongruent, it wouldn't sound reasonable to us anymore.

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