It’s Not What You Eat, It’s How You THINK!

Because your mind does what all minds do…

Let’s start here:

The difference between someone who loses weight and someone who doesn’t?
It’s not about willpower. Or discipline. Or waking up at 4am to do things you hate.

It’s not about kale. Or cake. Or carbs.

It’s about thought.

And more specifically, how much you believe the ones that come and go through your mind.

We all have thoughts. Lots of them. And some sound very convincing.
But that doesn’t make them true.

You’re Not Doing It Wrong — You’re Just Listening to Your Mind

Imagine two people. Both eat more cake than they planned to.

Person A notices the fullness, maybe even a tinge of regret. But they move on.
They know they’re human. That food is delicious. That it was just a moment.

Person B, on the other hand, hears a story.
“I blew it.”
“Might as well eat the rest.”
“Why do I always do this?”

So they keep eating — not because they’re weak or broken or addicted —
but because of the thoughts they’re listening to in that moment.

Same situation. Different level of belief in the mental chatter.

Nothing’s wrong.
Just a misunderstanding.

We’ve Been Sold the Wrong Idea

It looks like your eating habits are about food. Or motivation. Or needing to “fix” something.
But they’re not.

They’re about thought.

Thought creates feeling. Feeling drives behaviour.
When you think, “I can’t handle this,” it doesn’t feel good. So you reach for something that does.

It’s so innocent.

That’s what habits are:
The mind trying to feel better, the only way it knows how.

You Don’t Need to Change Your Behaviour — You Need to See What’s Behind It

This is the part no one’s talking about:
You don’t need more strategies.
You don’t need another plan.
You don’t need to muscle through every urge.

You just need to see — really see — that the voice in your head isn’t you.

It’s just learned thinking. Recycled thoughts. Habitual stories.

And when you see that, they start to lose their grip.

What You Practice, You Can Un-Practice

If you’ve spent years thinking:
“I can’t trust myself.”
“I always mess this up.”
“I’ll never get it right…”

That’s okay. It just means those thoughts are well-practiced.

But you don’t have to keep practicing them.
You don’t have to challenge them or argue with them.
Just see them.

See them as thought — not truth.

The Moment You See Through Thought, Something Shifts

You get a little space. A breath.
And in that space, there’s wisdom. Clarity. Possibility.

You still eat cake sometimes.
You still get overwhelmed.
But the meaning drops out.

You don’t make it personal. You don’t spiral.

You just come back.

Back to awareness.
Back to peace.
Back to who you’ve always been underneath the noise.

You’re Already Okay

There’s nothing to fix.

You’re not broken.
You’re not undisciplined.
You’re not doing it wrong.

You’ve just been caught up in some very believable thinking.

But thought changes. Especially when you don’t focus on or feed it.

That’s the shift.
And it changes everything.

With love,
and zero pressure to eat kale,

And if you’d like some help, please get in touch.

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