“AHA” Moments

The scale does not lie - the power of the present moment

I always had a problem with food. I love it. I love to cook. I love to bake. I love to eat.

And this is visible in my physical body.

I am overweight. Not much but it is enough for me to be disturbed. Not much but enough that many times I feel guilty, hopeless and helpless in weight loss.

I always thought that I had to explain to myself why I was struggling with the extra weight. I tried to find explanations in my past, in my childhood, that my father left me early on, that I was sexually abused and that all these had an effect on my eating habits.

Once I had a conversation with a coach, who helped me to have an insight and to see something new. During the conversation, I was open to seeing something new, and when I looked in the right direction (inside), I saw the answer (I had the insight) to my weight problem.

It was not what I expected.

It was not in my history. It was not my bad experience with people.

I saw, that all of my problems with my weight exist because I am not PRESENT when I am eating.

I simply did not recognize when I was eating what I was eating and how much I was eating. My mind was too busy to focus on thinking about something else, that it forgot to recognize the food intake, the eating that was happening.

This was and is the stress eating, this was and is anxiety eating, this was and is a bad habit, but nothing connected with my history, and it does not define me. It bad habit that is just there when I am not PRESENT. And many times I was not present when I was eating, and the scale shows it, apologetically. The scale does not lie.

Since then, nothing changed but everything is different.

I try to pay attention to my food while I am eating. I truly See, Taste, Smell, and Touch it. Recognize it, flavour it, and be present with it.

Being present with the food is being with it, in mind and body. Not doing something else, like listening, reading, or watching something while eating. Just me and my food. Not even thinking. (seriously).

When we think, or over-thinking something we lose the connection with the present moment. When we are thinking about something we do see, hear or taste the things that we are eating at that moment. It will not go into your nervous system, only goes into your belly.

Try it, experience it that if you wanna hear something you can not read and understand the text. When you are reading something you can not listen to the music and enjoy it as you would like at the same time. When you listening to something you can not taste or smell the food.

Play with this, experience it, and try to test the difference, how it feels like when you are truly present with your food and when you are not.

I hope this story helps you to see something new.

With Love, Viktoria