The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
The fact that the most intelligent species on the planet happens to be the only one to suffer eating problems can only be explained by the fact that our intelligence has led
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
to avoid this misery is not to try to escape in the first place. As long as they never try that prison door handle, they’ll always preserve the belief that it might just open when they want it to.
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
Continues - prison metaphor
ENCOURAGING SOMEONE TO LOSE WEIGHT THROUGH THE USE OF WILLPOWER IS LIKE TELLING THEM TO OPEN A DOOR BY PUSHING ON THE HINGES The need for willpower implies a conflict of will.
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
On willpower and conflicting wills
BY PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM THE FEAR OF FAILURE, YOU GUARANTEE THAT YOU FAIL
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
Fear of failure
But what if your projected fears are based on false information?
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
afraid to go on eating as they do and afraid to quit.
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
They yearn for the “security” of the prison. Life on the outside is alien and frightening for them: it doesn’t run to the same routine or the same guidelines; it’s not what they know and they don’t feel equipped to handle it.
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Prison metaphor - linked this time to fear of success. Success = change
astray. There are plenty of examples of human intelligence leading to self-destruction: the way we eat is just one more.
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
The upshot is that we become inert, stuck between conflicting fears.