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    Loving Yourself Thin: Feel Good About Yourself, Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Vivation
    Loving Yourself Thin: Feel Good About Yourself, Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Vivation
    Loving Yourself Thin: Feel Good About Yourself, Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Vivation
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    Loving Yourself Thin: Feel Good About Yourself, Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Vivation

    By Patricia Bacall

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    If you struggle with your weight, feel disgusted with yourself, and wish there was a way to lose weight and keep it off, this is the book for you. You don't need another diet...you need emotional rescue.
    If you eat compulsively when you're upset, angry, sad or bored, LYT provides the permanent solution. Begin your last weight loss odyssey now, stop agonizing about food, and start enjoying life!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBenesserra Publishing
    Release dateJan 8, 2010
    ISBN9781458170309
    Loving Yourself Thin: Feel Good About Yourself, Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Vivation
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    Patricia Bacall

    Dedicated to helping "Make Happiness Happen" via yoga, healthy eating, and the powerful Vivation breathwork technique for emotional resolution, Patricia Bacall teaches people to heal negativity and live happier, less stressful, more fulfilling lives. Patricia shares her practical wisdom and writes about techniques, tools, tricks and tips that she feels are useful and doable for anyone who wants to increase their physical health and feelings of wellbeing. She has been practicing and teaching yoga and Vivation for over 20 years and has also had an ongoing yoga practice for over 30 years. As a breathwork coach, yoga teacher, and seminar leader in private sessions and classes throughout the world, Patricia has a practical style that is engaging and intuitive. She has been teaching personal growth since 1989, has studied extensively with Jim Leonard, the founder of Vivation®, and is one of the best-trained and most experienced breathwork professionals in the United States. With a gentle and positive approach, she helps people love and appreciate themselves as unique individuals. Her workshops and classes attract people of all backgrounds and ages who want to improve their lives. Patricia is the North American Director of the Association of Vivation Professionals (AVP), and travels widely teaching Vivation to individuals, couples and groups. When not traveling, she resides in Los Angeles with her husband Michael Garver, Boomer the dog, Corona the parrot, and Mick the cockatiel. She can be reached at pb@vivationusa.com. To learn more about Vivation breathwork, go to http://www.vivationusa.com, or http://www.lovingyourselfthin.com

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      The whole idea of this book is that diets are not going to work, especially if you can’t get past hating yourself for your appearance. It sounds like a simple idea, but there is a lot more to it than that. This book covers a lot of areas in how we hate ourselves and punish ourselves. It also discusses how we can get over these messages and start making healthy progress to weight loss. I have been overweight for several years and seem to find the same results. I may try a diet just to crash and burn horribly within a couple days, try to start exercising but take a huge leap and almost kill myself off and never do anything again, and of course the verbal punishment from eating desserts to refusing to buy bigger clothes because I just keep gaining weight. When I started reading this book, it started hitting home right away. The exact behaviors that were being described were what I was doing to myself.I started to realize where I was messing my weight loss up. It has made me more aware of what happens and how I react. Although I do find myself slipping back into the negative behaviors, thanks to reading Loving Yourself Thin, I can identify those behaviors and modify them before they get out of control.I really liked this book and I recommend it to anyone that has be struggling with weight loss issues. There is so much more involved when you are trying to loose weight and this book treats the mental aspect that is not talked about that much.This is one book that I think should be a must for anyone serious about weight loss.I received a copy of this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. After I started reading the book, I found that I needed a physical copy to help me work through the different exercises. I purchased a physical copy and found it was much easier to follow the point of the book.

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    Loving Yourself Thin - Patricia Bacall

    Loving Yourself Thin:

    How to Achieve Your Ideal Body

    without Dieting or Deprivation

    Patricia Bacall

    Copyright © 2011 Patricia Bacall

    Smashwords Edition

    Loving Yourself Thin:

    How to Achieve Your Ideal Body without Dieting or Deprivation Loving Yourself Thin is a registered service mark of Bacall and Associates, Los Angeles, California

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

    Vivation® is a registered service mark of Associated Vivation Professionals.

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

    Bacall, Patricia

    Loving Yourself Thin: How to Achieve Your Ideal Body

    Without Dieting or Deprivation/ by Patricia Bacall

    1. Self-Help 2. Diets 3.Weight Loss

    00-192604

    ISBN 978-09706298-6-9

    CONTENTS

    1. Diets Don’t Work – Give Up Dieting Forever

    2. Food – Exciting and Dangerous?

    3. Relearn How to Eat – I CAN Have it

    4. Your Shopping Excursion

    5. What’s That Feeling? Hunger and Emotions

    6. Change Your Relationship to Food Forever – Loving Yourself Thin Eating Guidelines

    7. Learning Positive Self-Talk

    8. Keep On Keeping It On

    9. Getting Rid of Excess Emotional Baggage with Vivation®

    10. Living For Today

    FOREWORD

    What this method is NOT

    Change is not easy...there is no magic bullet for losing weight – no straight line from here to there. It takes courage to want to change, to read this book, and to make the commitment to yourself that you WILL change.

    Every weight loss method entails healing, it is not simply mechanical, like dieting, because any method you employ to change your body requires thought, planning, emotions action, and commitment.

    So if you’re willing to do what it takes, willing to change, willing to make the decision that you’re going to accept the challenge of change and do it, rather than make excuses, commiserate with your friends, exchange stories about how hard it is, etc., I can help you.

    Among all the people I’ve ever worked with and helped, there runs a common thread: an inkling or similar small thought that, underlying all their body and weight issues, lies some emotional reason they keep extra weight on.

    And so, what we do together is simply uncover and heal those underlying emotional causes of overeating, overweight and negative body image, so that the thin you can emerge. Having healed those issues, the way is clear to follow any healthy living action plan that appeals to you, based on your values.

    Actually changing your body and your relationship to it requires just a few things:

    You have to eat.

    You have to breathe.

    You have to move.

    Above all, you have to heal.

    All of these things require commitment, but before you can do any of them, you have to have the self esteem and know that you’re worth the effort. Just thinking or talking about them is not enough, action is required. And underlying all action must be the belief that you deserve to achieve your goals. Or at the very least, believe that you are walking a path that will lead you to that increased self esteem.

    Because it is a journey. Your destination may change over time – you might start out in one direction and discover six months or a year down the road that your values, and what is important to you, have shifted to another focus.

    But you need to feel every step of the way, that your path is a worthy one – one that adds courage and integrity to your self-image, and contributes to your self worth and wealth as a human being.

    So ultimately, that is why you do this – not specifically to get skinny, because that is not always the goal of Loving Yourself Thin – but to fall in love with yourself as the unique and wonderful individual that you are, and to prove to yourself that you are powerful enough to effect change long this path we call Life.

    PB

    Sept. 13, 2011

    INTRODUCTION

    I wrote this book to share with you from my heart the methods that worked for me in healing my issues with my body, food, and compulsive overeating.

    I am a perfectionist. As I’ve matured, however, I’ve grown to see the absolute absurdity of perfectionism, and know there is no such thing. In fact, I laugh at myself in the light of what I now know; that is, perfection is both possible and impossible. I know that sounds like a mystery, but as I’ve learned, it’s all in the way you look at it.

    For much of my life, I felt that I had to be thin to be perfect. The problem was that I could never be thin enough to finally understand that I was perfect. I tried all the usual ways to get thin: diets, exercise, fasting, diet pills. And for a while, they worked. But even though I was thin, I never felt good about myself, always thinking I had to be better in some way, in order to be

    good enough. I liked myself, but I didn’t love myself and I never felt really good about who I was. There was always a nagging feeling that I needed to improve in some way to finally feel good about myself. But I just hadn’t found the answer.

    Eventually I could not continue with my dieting regimen, as it was making my life unmanageable in many ways. I stopped taking pills and dieting, and my weight ballooned up about twenty-five pounds. I was horrified. All my ways of coping with my body, food and eating weren’t working any more, and I realized that I had been a compulsive eater for a long time. That is, I used food to try to solve problems in my life. When I was frustrated or angry, I used food to soothe or distract myself. This became apparent to me once when I remember standing in front of the open refrigerator thinking, What am I looking for? There’s nothing in here that will help me feel better. In fact, whatever I eat right now will probably make me feel worse. And I not only used food to solve emotional issues, I feared food as well, thinking it had power over me to make me feel bad about myself. I know now that food itself was never the problem. The problem was my relationship to my body and eating.

    So I began to understand the dynamics of how my emotions were affecting my behavior around food. I tried various non-diet approaches to achieve my ideal body, and they worked to some extent in healing my relationship with my body. But not until I began to use Vivation®, as a technique to resolve negativity, was I able to begin to fully love and accept myself as I am. Using Vivation, combined with other tools for gaining sensitivity to how much food I need to eat, allowed me to reach and maintain my ideal weight. I learned how to deal with my emotions in a way that would go directly to the heart of what was eating at me. I became assertive enough to no longer tolerate the intolerable and became unwilling to stuff my emotions down with food.

    Today, I no longer diet, and eat what I want. I no longer criticize myself for my food choices, or believe that any food is bad for me. I no longer relate to any food as forbidden. I can say, I know I can have it, but do I really WANT it? regarding any food. I’ve come to love and feel good about myself and my body, relating to it as a dear friend who has been with me through thick and thin, heavy and light, and as a miraculous instrument through which I experience life.

    I feel good about who I am as a person, with all my human foibles and unique strengths. I am much more forgiving of others, and myself and motivate myself positively through enthusiasm and a sense of adventure, rather than thinking myself wrong.

    I know you will understand if I say, FOOD IS NOT THE PROBLEM. It’s not! Food is healthful and delicious and is meant to be enjoyed. But do you eat food or do you use it? If you use food for any other reason than to fuel your body and satisfy hunger, then you are using food for things that it is not meant to solve. But still, food is not the issue; the problems are your inability to deal with life’s stresses and your negative emotions.

    The goals of Loving Yourself Thin are to help you feel comfortable around food, eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full; to teach you to enjoy food without guilt or self-recrimination; to develop the motivation to create your ideal body, and experience increased happiness, satisfaction, well-being and creativity in all areas of your life.

    The first and most important goal is to allow you to end dieting forever, because in the long run, diets don’t work for weight loss. You will learn to be able to eat what you like, as long as you’re following the eating guidelines, and you’ll lose weight. You will completely change your relationship to food and eating. You will learn to view food as something pleasurable that you eat when you are hungry to fuel your body, and avoid using food as an all-purpose solution for everything from loneliness to boredom. You will be able to eat anything that you love and enjoy, in the right amounts for you, without feeling guilty or ashamed. By learning how to feed yourself in ways that are self-loving and nurturing, you will stop eating more food than you require. You will lose weight, and reach and

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