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    Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts
    Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts
    Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts
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    Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts

    By Laura Katleman

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    These 242 thoughts are daily reminders to help you align with your true self and cultivate a wise, pragmatic relationship with food and your body. Although they are a distillation of the Skinny Thinking Five Steps, derived from the Skinny Thinking book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaura Katleman
    Release dateJan 10, 2011
    ISBN9781458185495
    Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts
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    Laura Katleman

    Laura KatlemanAuthor of Skinny ThinkingSkinny Thinking grew out of Laura Katleman-Prue's desire to heal the eating, weight, and body image issues that plagued her for 35 years. She discovered that the root of her problem was the way she thought about food. In fact, changing her diet was irrelevant, if she didn't change her thinking habits. By teaching herself to go on a "thought diet" and transform her relationship with food, she experienced permanent healing. This healing motivated her to write Skinny Thinking and to lead Skinny Thinking Workshops in order to help others heal their eating issues as well.Laura attended Pomona College and pursued graduate studies in Marketing at Boston College. In 1980, she founded the Boston Brownie Company Inc. with retail and wholesale distribution in 2,000 stores in 14 states along the eastern seaboard.In 1992, Laura completed coursework at Lesley University in Counseling Psychology. That same year, she received a Certification in Transpersonal Psychology from the Theravision Institute. A long-time meditator, she has been teaching meditation and self-inquiry for the past four years. She began teaching Skinny Thinking Workshops in 2009.

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      Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts - Laura Katleman

      FOREWORD

      As Americans, we are all aware of the serious health crisis in this country. Obesity and our cultural obsession with food have reached epidemic proportions, not only among adults but among children and adolescents as well. Obesity-related illnesses result in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year and billions of dollars in health care costs. As a cardiologist specializing in heart failure and transplantation, I see firsthand how body-weight issues impact my patients’ health. Although my overweight patients are paying a terrible price for the way they are eating and living, the good news is that, for the most part, they can significantly improve their health by making even small changes in their dietary behavior.

      Often, in spite of the best intentions, when people try to make changes to support a healthier way of living and eating, those changes are short-lived. The fact that more than 98% of the people who lose weight through dieting regain it within three years is clear evidence that focusing on diet, nutrition, and exercise alone is not enough to combat the problem. If we are to solve the epidemic of obesity, we must first concede that what we are doing is not working, and then embrace effective models of change. Skinny Thinking Freedom Thoughts is a distillation of all of the important concepts in the original Skinny Thinking book, provides such a model.

      Skinny Thinking is a remarkable compendium of tools and information that guide readers to a healthy body weight not by providing a new fad diet, but by challenging them to permanently change their relationship with food, their thinking, and their bodies. Ms. Katleman-Prue teaches people who have issues with food and body weight not only how and what to eat, but, more importantly, how to alter the way they think about the food they eat to bring about lifelong change.

      The American health care system is failing to solve the growing pattern of obesity and other chronic conditions. The situation can only be solved by changing our health care paradigm from illness to wellness. To this end, I have begun to shift my practice toward disease prevention and self-directed wellness. I’m convinced that, ultimately, the way to achieve wellness and prevent disease is through exploring the connection between mind, body, and spirit. Among other things, I’ve seen the enormous impact of patients’ habitual thinking patterns on their prognosis for healing once they’ve suffered a serious illness.

      Similarly, I have no doubt that those who suffer from eating and body-weight issues engage in habitual thinking patterns that sabotage their healing efforts. This is precisely why I am excited to endorse Skinny Thinking. Not only is it the first book to address the role our thoughts play in health issues, it also identifies romantic thinking about food as the core problem. But this insightful book doesn’t stop there. Because food and eating issues are complex and multifaceted, touching every aspect of life, solving them requires a whole-person approach. The Skinny Thinking Five Steps encompass everything from food choices, lifestyle, and eating habits, to basic emotional well-being, questioning misguided beliefs about food, and learning to connect and align with the spiritual dimension of being.

      If you suffer from eating or body-weight issues and are ready to stop the cycle of yo-yo dieting, the book you now hold in your hands will provide the tools and insights you need to succeed. Just follow the simple Five Steps. My advice to every reader is if food, your body weight, or your body image is a source of worry, suffering, and ill health for you, don’t delay in putting the Skinny Thinking Five Steps into practice.

      If you devote yourself to implementing these powerful tools, you will heal your body, mind, and spirit and reap the rewards of an infinitely happier and healthier life!

      Alan Gass, MD, FACC

      Director of Integrative Medical Education, National Institute of Whole Health

      Director of Advanced Cardiac Failure and Transplantation, Westchester Medical Center

      Advisory Board Member, HealthCorps, a program begun by Dr. Mehmet Oz to combat childhood obesity

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Thank you, Dr. Georgianna Donadio, for your friendship and guidance. Thank you, Dr. Bernie, for your inspiration and support. Thank you, Dr. Alan Gass, for your generous support. You epitomize the best in what health care could be. Thank you to the wonderful people at Morgan James for believing in this book: David Hancock, Rick Frishman, Lyza Poulin, and Bethany Marshall. Thank you Lisa Holliday and Barbara and Lee Cohen for your unwavering dedication to your own healing and your support of Skinny Thinking. Thank you Tina Williams for your energy, enthusiasm, and brilliance. Thank you, Eric Yaverbaum, for being such a great friend and mentor on this journey, and thank you to your extraordinary team at Ericho: Danielle Nacco, Andrea Biggs, Lauren Hovey, Mary Clare Jensen, Ilana Abel, and Danielle Pieri. Thank you to Dr. Ed Babinsky, Dr. Jan Shifren, Dr. Gerry Koocher, Karen Puglia, Marcia Gorfinkle, Jeanne Handelman, Susan Zipkin, Susan Taft, Rachel Bornstein, Lise Mousel, Darius Dahmubed, Tania Gerich, Stream Ohrstrom, Marcelle Donahue, Don Dittberner, Maudie Bremer, Melissa Linde, Krishna Sprinkle, Helene LaMare, Meredith Miller, Amy Heller, Marcy Cohen, and Ann Marie Hartnett.

      Any wisdom in these pages comes from the deep wells I call my teachers: Gina Lake, Theo, Stuart Schwartz, Pamela Wilson, Mooji, Michael Regan, Neelam, Adyashanti, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, Nirmala, Dorothy Hunt, Ramana Maharshi, Robert Adams, Krishnamurti, Yogananda, and Nisargadatta. Last but not least, I would like to thank those whom I have not called teacher, but who have been profound way-showers nevertheless: my husband, my ex-husband, my daughter, our dog, my parents and sisters, my friends, and the greatest teacher of all—life. I bow to all of you in deep reverence and gratitude. I hope that in some small measure, this book will serve the freedom of those who read it.

      INTRODUCTION

      These 242 thoughts are daily reminders to help you align with your true self and cultivate a wise, pragmatic relationship with food and your body. Although they are a distillation of the Skinny Thinking Five Steps, derived from the Skinny Thinking book, and helpful reminders of the principles, they are not a substitute. Either read the Skinny Thinking book or take a Skinny Thinking Workshop to both fully grasp the concepts and experience the transformational exercises. In this way, you will best support your ultimate healing.

      Read one thought each day, a few each day or a page or two each day—whatever feels right. They are an adjunct to the other Skinny Thinking tools, reminders to help you stay on track as you form new, healthy habits.

      The Skinny Thinking Approach

      This approach is about learning to align with your true nature rather than with the false self or ego. When you are in touch with what I call the true self or the Wise Witness, you are in touch with a mature, wise part of you at the core of your being. When you are aligned with that, rather than with the ego or negative thoughts that constantly chatter in your head, you feel happy and at peace. The ego experiences separation from other people and creates the fear at the root of your suffering, including your eating-related suffering. When you are identified with the ego instead of the Wise Witness, you innocently make choices that are contrary to your physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.

      By using the Five Steps, you will see that when you’re identified with the ego, you relate to food from your conditioning, and this causes you to look for things from food that it cannot provide. From this place, you may overeat or eat the wrong foods because your uninvestigated thoughts are mediating between food and you. The ego tempts you with a thin sliver of truth, the pleasurable aspect of eating, and filters out everything else. Then, based on this slant, it creates desires and drives that interfere with a simple and natural relationship with food. Those desires and drives impel you to reach for food whether you’re hungry or not, and before you know it, the pounds are piling on.

      But when you’re able to drop out of the ego and move into alignment with the Wise Witness, those thoughts disappear, and you’re able to see a pure, practical way of eating that’s based on food’s true function. This natural way of relating to food includes the entire picture—the whole truth about food.

      You can become free from ego-based distortions and overblown desires by not listening to the thoughts that create them and by seeing them for what they are, conditioning that keeps us imprisoned in egoic consciousness and suffering.

      Although this book is about healing eating and body-image issues, it has another potential benefit—helping you experience who you really are beyond the ego. As much as your troubled relationship with food may have been the bane of your existence, your suffering has motivated you to pick up this book and has brought you to an exciting watershed in your evolution: realizing that your ego has been lying to you for years. This willingness to see the truth

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