by Ken Winston Caine

Don’t diet.

Diets require willpower. Diets imply “temporary.” Diets deprive.

(And diets deprave. I say that with only the tiniest tip of tongue in cheek. I’ve DONE diets. I know about diets.)

Diets don’t work.

At least not for long. Not for weight loss.

We all know people who’ve lost lots of weight while rigorously subjecting themselves to dieting.

And we all know people who’ve put it all back on, and then some, within 12 months of finishing the diet.

Maybe you are one of those people.

I am.

A diet punishes you. You may enjoy and rationalize self-flogging for awhile but at some point you get tired of beating yourself up.

A diet forces you to view food as evil or tempting, as something you must resist. And the more you resist it, the more you are focusing on it and building an intense (though submerged) desire for it.

A diet creates fierce inner conflict.

Evoke the ‘Spirit of Wellness Factors’ and stop struggling

The attitudes of:

• Resisting
• Depriving
• Extreme disciplining
• Limiting
• Forcing
• Making Herculean effort

… are all counterproductive to evoking the Spirit of Wellness.

When you enable The Seven Subtle Shifts that Evoke the Spirit of Wellness, dieting is unneccessary.

You change your mindset and you change your life when you evoke the Spirit of Wellness. Do it.

You will:

• Enable the Laughing Loving Living Effect.
• Release weightiness.

Release weightiness in all of its forms. The Spirit of Wellness Explorations help you do that.

And then effortlessly, how you eat, how you view nourishment, how you approach life, how you view and treat your body…transforms. Naturally and automatically.

Your mind and body begin seeking balance.

They innately know how to do this.

When your life is in balance, you maintain your optimal weight naturally

They do it naturally, normally unless they are overwhelmed and overuled by envrionmental toxins and conditions (including illnesses and social and mental programming and subsequent eventually deeply ingrained habits and behaviors).

Begin the gentle explorations that evoke the Spirit of Wellness and you begin restoring balance in all aspects of living. And that includes eating and weightiness

As you make this shift, you are refocusing your values and aligning your thinking with new, highly desired higher values. With higher, personal values that you have submerged or compromised for far too long. Then all the rest begins happening automatically.

No deprivation, no willpower, no resistance. Put weightloss on automatic pilot

No deprivation involved.

No willpower. Willpower doesn’t work. Willpower is a form of torture and deprivation. It’s a struggle. Struggle is self-defeating, punishing.

You’ll find you are changing your environments and relationships. Adjusting your inspirations, your routines, your associations, your stimuli.

Focus on the values. On discovering your highest values about joyful, meaningful, purposeful living.

And explore where eating / nourishing fits in. And how.

And allow those values to assert themselves more and more.

Resist ‘resisting’

Anything that requires you to forcefully RESIST any food that you are feeling desire for counters your intention to achieve healthy nourishment and weight naturally and effortlessly.

Resisting doesn’t really work.

It just leaves you frustrated.

And sets up an anticipatory waiting.

Leaves you waiting for the day you achieve your ideal weight and can go OFF this strict deprivation.

The day when you can start devouring all those things you now are depriving yourself of… and begin packing the fat back on.

Resisting is counter to your values of balance and nourishment and loving life.

You MUST love life if you are to effortlessly lose weight and sustain your ideal weight once you get there.

NEXT: It’s not your fault

P.S. Certain diets are good, even useful. I reveal which types in this bonus report:

Only a certain kind of diet is helpful

Don’t dismiss diets altogether.

The diets that are helpful, though, do not emphasize weight loss as their intention or outcome. And they may not be called “diets” at all.

The texts I studied while in training for my natural health doctorate called these good diets, “fasts.”

But they aren’t truly fasts. Not in the way most people think of fasts.

Most people think of fasting as a period of not eating. Of only taking water.

But in the jargon of natural health, natural hygeine, naturopathy and other related alternative and complementary health disciplines, a “fast” is a short period of taking only certain foods or juices, possibly along with certain herbs and supplemental nutrients.

This kind of “fast” may last for 10 days. May last for six weeks. May have some other timetable.

The specific nutrients taken during the fast are prescribed for their healing and cleansing effect on the body, or on specific body systems or organs.

This type of diet may be accompanied by prescribed activities such as hot soaks, sun baths, skin brushing, nature walking, toning and stretching exercises, enemas, colonics, and so on.

This type of diet is sometimes referred to as a “cleanse.” As in “liver cleanse” or “lymph cleanse.” Or as a “detox.” (As in detoxification.

Most naturpaths recommend you routinely do a spring cleanse annually.

This type of diet can have powerful balancing and healing effects.

And can be a prelude to weight loss.

Can be a ritual that helps you begin shifting your mindset to one that evokes the Spirit of Wellness factors. This is especially true if it is accompanied by daily periods of meditation and self-reflection and emotional-release exercises.

Spiritual fasts, which sometimes are water fasts (and sometimes are not, various spiritual traditions differ on this), are often accompanied with periods of prayer, dancing, and chanting and are seen as a time to slow down, step back and shift focus.

The emotional outlook transforms because the focus of the fast is on healing and purging and connecting with higher spirit and values and rebalancing; because the fast is a ritual with defined practices and a defined ending and a defined outcome.

In other words, the required discipline and the expectation and the temporariness of the practice work in your favor in this type of diet.

In spiritual traditions, as one teacher put it, “the focus during fasting is to hold onto what is sound and true in your heart.”

Even if fasting feels punishing at times, you know that it is only for a short period and that it has a history of delivering long-lasting desired results from that short period of practice.

People who fast regularly use the inevitable periods of pain and discomfort as a stimulus to turn their focus to the higher awarenesses that sustain them.

Put your attention there for 10 days — or six weeks — and you change your world.
– ken winston caine