I know what it feels like to feel helpless and out of control. I know what it feels like to be on an unending train of diets that only succeed in making me feel like more of a failure. Know what it feels like to feel ashamed because the largest size in the store still doesn’t fit.
I know what it feels like to be angry, to eat the same foods as my siblings, husband, and friends. Always gaining, gaining, gaining, while they remained the same.
I know what’s it’s like to suffer disease. To suffer mental illness. To suffer in silence.
I know what it’s like to feel picked on, left out, feel lesser just because I weigh more. Want so badly to feel as beautiful on the outside as I always did on the inside.
So I made a decision.
I decided to accept myself, exactly where I was, how I was, and then to love myself in the midst of my struggle. Like I would a friend.
I chose to stop hating my body, realizing she was in the same boat I was, we were both sinking, and we needed to help each other. It’s my responsibility to fuel her right and her responsibility to keep me well.
I gave up dieting, it never worked for me anyway. Instead I looked to simpler times, looked at what we have here naturally on the earth and made that my motto. If it comes from the earth, I eat it, just eat real food. Simple. Effective. Easy. Lasting.
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I began to tune in and listen to what my body said after I ate certain foods and adjusted accordingly. I was patient, I went slow, because it had always been about weight loss before. And I finally realized, it can’t be all about weight loss. Because fat was never my problem, but grief, past traumas, self-control, patience, self-medicating, were the things I really needed to work on.
I can write you a meal plan, I can give you recipes all day long (I wrote y’all two whole cookbooks!), but if you don’t get to the bottom of all your stuff. You will continue to come back to this place over and over again. Because it’s not a weight problem.
Brittany Williams has taken the weight loss world by storm with her best-selling Instant Loss Cookbook. After reaching a peak weight of 260 pounds and spending a lifetime struggling with obesity, yo-yo dieting, autoimmune diseases, and chronic fatigue, Brittany changed her relationship with food and lost an astonishing 125 pounds in a year through diet alone.
Brittany’s latest book, Instant Loss Eat Real, Lose Weight shows how to make this a sustainable lifestyle with kid and family-friendly meals—from Strawberry Shortcake Oatmeal to Cowboy Chili to Easy 2-Minute Pork Chops. Members of her growing community have reported losing 50 and even 100 pounds themselves, and this cookbook will help others achieve similar success with simple, delicious meals, nearly all ready in 30 minutes or less.
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