Often emotions are tied into what we eat and how we feel about ourselves.
Our self-image and self-confidence are also an important part of the package. As I embarked on my journey into the media with a New York Times best seller, I found myself on a path I did not dream would be for me. On the outside I looked great. I had graduated from BYU, taught school for three years and now was a very successful person in the media.
Underneath all of that were feelings that I was not OK. I had always struggled with school. My parents even drove to Provo on many weekends to read to me as I worked hard to get though college.
My success and newfound fame gave me a drink of admiration, and I wanted more and more of it. I wanted people to think I was OK even though I did not feel it inside. I began to push myself to the point that I was very stressed. Now I was on the NBC Today Show as a regular as well as writing a new book. It was all too much. I was putting in 70 and sometimes even 80 hours a week. I became depressed and went to see a doctor. The medication that he put me on had a side effect of weight gain. I ate more and more to fill that void I felt in my soul.
I did not stop any of my work but I had to slow down. I reached out for some therapy. What I learned was that I was looking outside of myself for the things that I should be giving myself. I must have asked my therapist 1,000 times if I was OK. Once I reprogrammed my head I asked her if I was smart. She would tell me, “I do not know anyone else that has done what you have done.” Someone who was as creative as I was did not get rewarded for that in school.
Slowly I began to reprogram the wrong ideas I had about me. I learned that I was OK, really smart and that it was I who had to love myself and care enough about me to do the things that would help me lose the weight that I had put on over the past few years. I had let myself go all the way to 326 pounds.
Slowly with the help of my wonderful support people, I started on the journey to take proper care of myself. Now I am at 200 pounds, very active and loving life. It had to start with me caring enough about myself that I would do the things that would bring me back to health and a wonderful active life.
Dian is writing a new book that will be released in March. The title is Tipping the Scales in your Favor, small steps that make a big difference to you health, you weight and your happiness. You and preorder it by going to https://dianthomas.com/weight-loss.htm. She will also give you private access to a special area for those who have purchased the book to see the material as it is developed on her website. Act now so you can take advantage of her creative ideas that took her from 326 to 200 pounds and has stayed off. She shares her step by step plan that too her to a new life.
