Do you know this?
You start out motivated, hold out for a few weeks and then find yourself trapped in old patterns again, in the yo-yo effect and struggling with your weight again? You think the reason is your diet or too little exercise, but what if the cause lies much deeper?
Because the real reason
… are often deep-seated beliefs that control your body, your emotions and your behavior – without you consciously realizing it.
Your experiences, the media and your environment influence you and what you think about food, losing weight and dieting and therefore also unconsciously influence how your body reacts to food, exercise and stress. They hold you back on a subconscious level and keep you struggling.
Here are 3 of them – and why they block you:
1 “I need more discipline to lose weight.”
The cause of this belief?
You may have heard phrases like “no pain, no gain” as a child. These phrases and also the performance-driven society & diet mentality shape you & your thinking. You have learned that success is linked to control and perseverance. And if losing weight doesn’t work? Then it’s down to you. Then you were “not disciplined enough”.
The truth & the impact on your weight:
you don’t have too little discipline, you have too much. Your constant control and discipline create stress for your body. Excessive exercise and calorie control put your body into survival mode, your nervous system activates the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight mode) and your body releases cortisol – a hormone that stores fat, especially on your stomach. Your metabolism slows down because your body thinks: “There’s a crisis right now – I need to keep my energy reserves.”
And that’s the point: it’s not a lack of discipline that’s your problem – it’s the lack of a feeling of security and relaxation.
The more you put your body into stress mode, the more it holds on. And the harder it will be to reach your feel-good weight.
2 “I can only eat when I’ve earned it”
The cause of this belief?
Perhaps food was used as a reward in your childhood and you heard phrases such as “If you’re good, you’ll get an ice cream” or “You did a great job, you deserve a sweet”. You have learned that you have to do something for food.
The truth & the impact on your weight:
Food is not a reward system, but a basic need of your body. However, through these experiences you have linked food with appreciation and love. So you also reward yourself with food for successes or a stressful day and perhaps you also relate this to having to earn your food by exercising. However, by linking food with performance, you lose the connection to your body and its natural feelings of hunger and satiety. You force yourself and your body to starve, which triggers survival mode, which in turn slows down your metabolism.
As soon as you eat, your body stores the food in its cells to prepare itself for “bad” times.
This creates a cycle of control and loss of control – eating becomes an emotional affair instead of being natural and relaxed.
3 “When I am slim, I will finally be happy.”
The cause of this belief?
Society, advertising and the media tell us that slim people are considered beautiful and desirable and link beauty with success and happiness. Those who conform to this body image are portrayed as happier, more desirable and more self-confident.
You may have seen “before and after” comparisons in the past and received compliments, praise and recognition when you lost weight, which made you feel happy.
The truth & the impact on your weight:
Your happiness & self-worth do not depend on a number on the scales.
This belief prevents you from feeling good NOW and you push your happiness into the future.
The worst thing about this is often that even if you reach your target weight, you are not “suddenly” happy. Because true well-being does not come from a number – but from your inner feeling of self-acceptance.
The problem
Your nervous system stores all the years of prohibitions, compulsion, discipline and food fears.
But there is a solution:
Your body follows your energy.
What does this mean?
When you change your beliefs, your body changes too. It starts to feel safe and relaxed again. Energy can flow freely again, your metabolism is activated and your feel-good weight is restored naturally – without constant discipline or sacrifice
Eating will be easy, natural and intuitive again – without guilt or the feeling of constantly having to follow rules.
BEYOND DIETS is not just about “losing weight” and it is not a new method or form of nutrition, but about the holistic liberation of your deeply rooted beliefs that prevent you from reaching your feel-good weight and maintaining it in the long term.
We regulate your nervous system and reprogram your subconscious so that eating is neither a condition nor an emotional compensation for you and you can feel comfortable and safe in your body & develop trust in it again – free from fear and control.
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