As a student of the original Food Philosophy Course, I was really pleased to hear that a new version of the course 'The Food Philosophy Vital' is now being offered to help people break free from dieting once and for all.
This version of the course is more affordable as it is a non-coaching version of the six-week online weight-loss course for just £30. Not everyone can afford the original course and it is important that as many of you are reached as possible and given the tools to get yourselves out of the overeating trap, lose weight, increase confidence and raise your self esteem.
For £30, you get all of the online course material, regular articles and advice, as well as membership to The Food Philosophy forum where you can chat to other people who are doing the course, support each other, go through the steps and exercises together and also talk to those who have already been through the course and who are already out of the overeating trap.
Sue Thomason, The Food Philosophy Coach explains more...
Over the last two and a half years since FP started, the response from course members has been amazing. The Food Philosophy has been called ‘life changing’ so often that I’ve come to take it for granted that it will change the life of everyone who embarks on the journey out of the depressing and stressful trap that overeating is.
Most course members come directly from a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and the relief they feel when they realise that there is an end to the suffering is enormous. Just imagine a life without overeating! This is so alien a thought that it might even seem scary to you. What will you find to think about, to worry about, to fill the gap when you don’t have to worry about food or your weight any more? But there’s nothing to be afraid of. With FP, the gap is filled with the creation of your ‘self’ – something that has been given a back stage position while obsession about weight and eating has been in the spotlight. You fill the gap with your full and colourful life. The life that you really deserve.
Someone recently asked me if FP involves IE (intuitive eating) and I said, yes, it does. But when you read FP, you realise that intuitive eating is actually ‘normal’ eating. All non-overeaters eat intuitively and it’s not a new skill that you need to learn, but an old one that you have lost because you have become so out of touch with your own needs and wants and desires. It’s a natural part of you that you need to remember or re-learn.
Intuitive eating is a very good way to live if you’re a compulsive overeater because it puts you back in the driving seat where food is concerned. The hard thing is actually getting into the driving seat – for many years you’ve been looking outside yourself and asking if you are ‘allowed’ to eat this or that and looking to others and asking whether you’re acceptable and if not, what size would you have to be to become acceptable.
This is entirely natural for a long-term yo-yo dieter because the kind of diet thinking you’ve been brainwashed into over the years deliberately removes all self responsibility where food is concerned and you have effectively become an automaton, in passive receive mode, unable to eat anything or think about your own body without externally referencing it all to check that it is ‘allowable’ or ‘correct’.
You’re not alone, though. Every single overeater in the world looks outside themselves for instructions when it comes to food and weight (and sometimes other parts of their lives too - sometimes, but not always, they do this with EVERY area). Even overeaters who are great successes in other areas of their lives and who wouldn't dream of looking to others for instructions about what they should think do it in the area of food and weight. They don't even realise they're doing it. Not one compulsive overeater and chronic dieter knows their own mind in this respect - every overeater is in passive receive mode.
This is something that really does have to be turned around if you want to get out of the overeating trap. Intuitive eating can never be truly intuitive unless all of your decisions are made internally and based on your own wants and needs. The Food Philosophy will help you to achieve independent thinking that supports your real goals for health, weight loss and much more. When I ask course members how The Food Philosophy affected their lives one of the most usual answers is: “It gives me a life to have an affect on!”
For more information e-mail Sue at sue@foodphilosophy.co.uk
