Diet
A diet is designed to help you lose or gain weight. A change of diet may also be initiated to improve or correct health problems. Dieting is a natural application that alters our physical wellbeing, weight or health. It changes the way we look or feel. There are many different diet plans that exist. “Eating Healthier” isn’t a diet plan. I’ve come across many clients who use the term “I’m eating healthier” and I always find myself perplexed. In most cases their using their current diet as a comparison tool to an unhealthier friend, spouse, co-worker etc…(I’m talking about Carshena) So yes you are “eating healthier” than someone who isn’t on a diet but you are not where you need to be in terms of a diet plan. The key work in diet plan, is plan. Can you tell me what you are going to eat 3 days from now at lunch? Then you don’t have a diet plan. VS.
Fasting
Fasting is different. Fasting is not for weight gain or loss. Nor is it limited to natural healing. It is not designed to change the way we look and feel but to change the way we perceive and live. A diet may change the way you look, but a fast will change the way you see. A diet may change your appearance, but a fast will change the way you live, altering your inner perspective. The world has perverted and reduced the fast, diminishing it to a diet. As such, it is not a spiritual renewal, but a physical one. But the deepest transformations are brought about from the inside out. Eating is considered natural so when you have placed yourself on a fast you are forgoing the natural to place yourself in a different realm of understanding. My most recent fast led to a place that I was familiar with but without the understanding that I needed. Yes I’m speaking of Dunkin Donuts parking lot. I don’t know who started my car or who drove me there but I was there and in need. I realized at that point I had an addiction to donuts that only a fast could reveal and help break.
If you feel a deep emotional connection to eating, you most likely need a fast to break that connection. Eating your emotions away is a lot deeper than just having a favorite food. Gain an understanding of your identity separate from food. If you eat whatever your co-workers order than you need a diet plan. Your diet isn’t something that should be constantly unpredictable, get some order over what you put in your mouth and then gain some control over what comes out of your mouth, like the words “No Thank You, I’m not hungry!”
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