Freedom from the Diet Trap: Slim for Life. Jason Vale

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СКАЧАТЬ pay you for a cup with even a grain in it. Why not? What has changed? The tea and the sugar have always remained exactly the same. The difference is they have simply trained themselves to like tea and coffee without sugar. The process is not hard; in fact it usually takes all of a week to get used to any new taste. The week is not painful, just a bit strange at first like any change. The coffee without sugar does not taste wonderful at first but after a while it soon starts to taste better to the person than it did with sugar in. The point that I am making is that the vast majority of people who make this change, would now never drink tea or coffee with sugar in it again. Not because they can’t, or because they are being forced not to, but because they have no desire to any more. This is an extremely important point to understand in order to reach ‘Food Freedom’ mentality. They aren’t on a ‘no sugar in tea diet’. In other words they don’t stare longingly at people adding sugar to their tea and feel envious because they can’t have it. The reason for this is simple. They can have sugar in their tea, but are now choosing not to. Diet mentality is one of, ‘I want, but I can’t have’ (which is enough to drive anyone of strong will, crazy. Yes strong will, I will expand on this later) but when you change your diet you have a, ‘I can, but I don’t actually want to’ mentality. When you have this mentality and have changed your diet as opposed to gone on a diet, there is no need to use any form of willpower, discipline, or self-control. In fact, those who do stop sugar in their tea and have done so for a little while, act as if you have poisoned them if you put some in (which in a way you have). The point is clear and simple: by changing their brand they will never have to use willpower, discipline, or self-control not to have sugar in their tea again. In other words – they are genuinely free to choose.

      YOU CANNOT HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE WITHOUT THE FREEDOM TO REFUSE

      This is a theme I will be repeating throughout the book – ‘you cannot have freedom of genuine choice, without the freedom also to be able to refuse’. It is interesting to observe that people who are mentally on a diet detest it so much because they feel their genuine freedom of choice has been removed. What they don’t seem to realize is that in many cases they aren’t actually genuinely choosing to eat the foods causing the health and excess fat problems anyway. They often want to stop the diet in order to get back to the freedom of choice they believed they enjoyed. This is an illusion for, as I will repeat, you simply cannot have genuine freedom of choice without genuine freedom to refuse. If people could simply choose to refuse, then diets would be obsolete and no one on earth would have a weight problem. People would simply exercise their genuine freedom of choice to refuse. If you could genuinely choose to have or not to have, then you wouldn’t be reading this book. The reality is our choices are being made for us. BIG FOOD and BIG DRINK – just like the tobacco companies over forty years ago – are adding chemicals to our ‘food’ and ‘drinks’ in order to make us feel hungrier faster. Haven’t you ever wondered why logically you just couldn’t simply stop eating certain things, even when it has gone completely against your intelligent rational judgement?

      Addiction and logic don’t go together, if they did no intelligent person would have ever smoked after it became clear it causes cancer and nobody would continue overeating and/or eating rubbish knowing it makes them fat, ill, miserable and can cause premature death. Logically, if this type of eating made people happy, everyone who is overweight would all be leading blissfully happy lives.

      BRITAIN’S FATTEST TEEN

      Coincidentally as I write this book a teenager has made front page headlines in the Sun newspaper in the UK. Georgia Davis has the unenviable title of being ‘Britain’s Fattest Teen’ weighing it at 33 stone (209 kg) at only 15 years of age. Consuming between eight to twelve thousand calories a day it’s easy to see how she got to be that big. The big mistake people make, including Georgia herself, is that it is not her choice to eat like this. There is no way on earth this poor and desperate girl genuinely chooses to eat the amount she does and be the size she is. If she had genuine freedom of choice she would simply stop eating so much rubbish and switch to fruit, veggies, and salads. Doctors have told her ‘she could drop dead at any moment’, no doubt believing a touch of ‘stating the bloody obvious’ would somehow help her. If anything, trying to scare any kind of addict off their drug rarely if ever works, in fact it usually has the opposite effect. For example one of the times a smoker will reach for a cigarette is when they are stressed and uptight. I remember my doctor telling me that if I continued smoking my lungs would collapse. I was so scared and stressed when I came out what do you think was the first thing I did? Yes – light a fag to help calm me down! The same principle applies to drug food. You tell someone like Georgia that she will die unless she changes, it won’t help her. She will simply find somewhere to cut off from the world and eat. Why? Because, as I will repeat, addiction and logic have no place together. Georgia said, ‘I can’t walk any more than a few steps without getting out of breath and a few months ago I developed type 2 diabetes. When I look in the mirror I feel sad and go to my bedroom and cry. I know it’s partly my fault. But it’s so hard to stop eating.’

      But it’s not hard to stop eating apples, bananas, grapes, cucumber, sardines, or spinach – even when people love these foods. Why? Because they are not drug-like foods and they don’t create a hole, they genuinely feed the body. Georgia went on to say, ‘Food is like a drug. Some people choose heroin but I’ve chosen food and it’s killing me.’

      But that’s the point; no one actually chooses to be a heroin addict any more than they choose to get hooked on certain foods. The more you try to fill the hole with the substances creating the hole the bigger the hole gets. All that has happened to 33 stone (209 kg) Georgia is the hole has got out of all proportion and the only thing which appears to give any degree of satisfaction is an enormous amount of the same. This poor girl knows it’s killing her, knows it has caused her to have diabetes and even knows she could drop down dead at any moment, yet she still continues to struggle. This is because telling her what she is doing is killing her is the same as telling someone in quicksand they are in fact in quicksand and should get out. SHE KNOWS! This girl knows all the reasons why she shouldn’t eat all this rubbish daily, what she doesn’t know is what compels her to do so against her rational judgement. And that is precisely what makes this book so very different to any ‘diet’ book you have ever read and is precisely what will enable you to break totally free.

      It is interesting to see that Georgia Davis said that eating is ‘like a drug’ to her. What I am saying is that it’s not simply ‘like a drug to her’, it is a drug and it is a drug to millions of people all over the world. This is due not to some inherent weakness in those millions of individuals, but the addictive nature of the drug-food itself. It is true that not everyone who smokes cigarettes becomes heavily addicted, but nearly all are addicted to some degree. The same applies to drug-like foods and drinks. Not everyone is this heavily addicted, but millions are certainly addicted to some degree. This is not the nature of the people but the nature of the substances themselves. And it’s not ‘food’ per se that they are overeating and ‘using’ as an emotional crutch, it’s drug-like food that people become addicted to and use to try and feed an emotion. After all I don’t see too many people attending Apple Anonymous or going to weekly meetings to try to stop eating broccoli do you?

      This is why I disagree so vehemently with people like Paul McKenna. While I admire much of his work in other areas, I cannot agree with his ‘I Can Make You Thin’ principles due to the addictive nature of the foods themselves. Paul suggests you can eat whatever you like as long as you eat only when you are hungry and stop eating when you are genuinely full. But that’s like saying to a smoker on twenty cigarettes a day that all they have to do to avoid cancer is to cut down to one cigarette a day. While the advice itself is correct – after all I don’t believe anyone would actually get cancer smoking one a day – if you have ever smoked you will know that actually trying to smoke just one a day when you have been on twenty is virtually impossible. And if you did СКАЧАТЬ