Wisdom and Weight

Being comfortable with your body at any size comes from practicing wisdom. And what’s that? Wisdom is a combination of discernment, valuing self, and utilizing cognitive skills—not your emotions—for problem-solving. Anyone can be wise. Based on studies, experts tell us repeatedly that good health, not weight loss, is the most effective goal for achieving and maintaining healthy eating practices for life. Every single moment you think about shedding pounds takes you farther away from wisdom—and reaching eating goals. Though it’s true that when we eat well, we can't see our bodies growing healthier, we still can rejoice in how fine they feel when well nourished and bathe in the glow of pride that comes from taking good care of ourselves.  Growing healthier—how can that not happen when you’re eating more nutritious foods than you did before?—and feeling better about yourself are major achievements. Why not focus on them, on what you’re doing that works? Why ever would you focus on what hasn’t? That's like being voted "most likely to succeed" and "most intelligent" in high school and despairing that you weren’t crowned "most popular" as well. Then, again, perhaps you don’t feel deserving of feeling good about yourself, so instead you zero in on what makes you feel crummy, an old, sadly familiar feeling. Psychology calls what we focus on “selective attention” which shapes our lives in myriad ways we don’t even realize. For...
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