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)
The addict who tries and fails repeatedly can’t kid herself any more. Many people conclude that the best way
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
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
Fear should not be regarded as an enemy. It’s a natural instinct, designed to protect us from real dangers by triggering the release of hormones that make us faster, fiercer and stronger.
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
Important positive notions about fear to remember as a means to help us survive
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.
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
Prison metaphor - linked this time to fear of success. Success = change
Eating disorders aren’t just about food. Food is used to feel in control of other feelings that may seem overwhelming.
Allen Carr • The Easy Way for Women to Lose Weight (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 82)
Feeling in control of emotions that are overwhelming - become controlled by eating - soothing
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.
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Continues - prison metaphor
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)
astray. There are plenty of examples of human intelligence leading to self-destruction: the way we eat is just one more.