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– Now we’ll discuss the following topic: “The typical scheme of eating disorder.”

– Should we write it down?

– Yes. You have to write it down. To make the explanation more entertaining, I’ll tell you a fairy-tale. Once good people told me a fairy-tale. Now I tell it from time to time at my sessions. It’s a story about a woman. Would you mind it, Victor?

– Me? No!

– Fine. So, it’s a fairy-tale about a woman. She is not twenty. She is not sixty… How old is she?

– Forty.

– OK. Forty. Fine. Her name was Zina. Has she got a family?

– Of course.

– It’s a nice fairy-tale. Husband and children?

– If the tale is nice, then she’s got all of them.

– Yes, she’s got a husband and children.

– ☺

– Who knows?

– So, Ksenya has got another idea: “Why are you so sure that the fairy-tale is kind-hearted if the woman has got a husband?” You should see Victor’s face now.☺

– ☺

– OK. She’s got a husband. How many children?

– Two.

– A couple of kids. What about pets? Cats or dogs?

– A cat.

– Sure.

– A cat. No dog. Right?

– ☺

– Right.

– No dog. So, the woman has got a cat, two children, and a husband. By the way, he is at the end of the list for some reason.

– ☺

– What does she do for a living?

– She is an accountant.

– Accountant as an option. Let’s generalize it. She works in the office. You know, there is a catchword “manager”, a person that you can find in every office.

– A manager.

– Yes, exactly. “A white-collar worker”. She is a manager. Has she got some excess weight at forty?

– Certainly.

– Of course, she gave birth to two kids.

Once, when the woman was cleaning her apartment, in some far corner, or maybe under a cabinet, she found something. Zina took it out, wiped the dust off. The last time she saw it was six months ago. It was her who pushed it under the cabinet in a fit of temper. A small tool on four legs.

– A weight scale?

– Yes. Zina puts it in front of her, on the floor. She wonders whether her weight has changed for the last six months. Zina feels in her heart that things go wrong.

– …and pushes the scale back under the cabinet…

– No, she doesn’t! She decides to check her weight with the scale.

Zina stands on scales measuring her weight and sees.

– Oh, I can imagine that…

– Just like in the song: “Amber saw the three-figure number”.

– ☺

– Did you watch the official video for the song?

– ☺

– It’s an amazing song. What’s its name? Let me check.

– “She stands on a scale”.

– Yes, precisely. It’s “She stands on a scale” song. If you haven’t watched it yet, search for it on Google. It’s really amazing. It’s a bit obscene, though.

– ☺

– Well, Zina stands on a scale and finds out that she gained twenty pounds. What does she think about it?

– It might be a mistake.

– Certainly! Perhaps the scale is out of order.

It’s dirty, dusty.

– Or she overate yesterday.

– Yeah, exactly! Besides, her clothes may be too heavy, right? Are your clothes heavy usually? Of course. Maybe Zina hasn’t gone for a dump yet.

– ☺

– …or hasn’t washed away all the make-up.

– So, she didn’t gain any weight. ☺

– Yes! Although it’s a bit upsetting, Zina forgot about it soon enough.

Another year passes by.

Zina stands on the scale again and finds out that she has gained another twenty pounds. Forty pounds in total. For illustrative purposes, I’ll demonstrate what it means when you gain forty pounds. Look at the corner of the room, please. Do you see the vessel for a water dispenser? Nineteen liters and a container. It weighs forty pounds or so.

Imagine that it’s not water, but fat plashing there.

The adipose tissue is riddled with blood and lymphatic vessels. The heart is beating, trying to push the blood through these numerous miles of capillary vessels. Your heart, joints, and spine are overloaded. To make it clearer, you carry the load on your shoulders. It is heavy. And this is how Zina walks now. She sleeps with the load, lays with it in the bed. Zina wakes up in the morning, cleans her teeth, takes a shower, goes to the kitchen, feeds her family, does all the chores, and then… Where does she go then? To the office. She works there all day long, running in and out. And the “heavy load” – her excess weight – accompanies her everywhere. She settled all the issues, typed on her computer, talked by phone. Finally, her working day is over. Where does Zina go then?

– She goes home.

– I wish she did. But she goes to a store at first.

– And she leaves it with numerous packets.

– Of course, she has bags full of food. Now imagine that a woman has more than one “bottle” on her shoulders. What if she has two bottles weighing forty pounds each?

She comes home. Her hands are full, so she opens the door with her forehead somehow. Ups, the family is already there waiting for her.

– ☺

– …screaming: “We are hungry!” She goes to the kitchen, bakes, boils, steams foods, helps children with homework. Then, late at night, Zina makes love with her husband. With this bottle on her shoulders. Then she goes to bed. She sleeps, and her body is getting bigger and bigger. In your opinion, what does Zina have to do to lose excess weight?

– She has to put away this load!

– The most important question is if she needs the willpower to get things done.

– Of course.

– She certainly needs the willpower to hold this heavy bottle all day long.

You can’t imagine how much strength and will I need to hold this forty-pound bottle on my shoulders for such a long time while standing in front of you and telling the story!

Finally, I feel something… What do I need to get rid of it?

– Motivation.

– Desire.

– Desire! Oh yeah, I’ve got a strong desire already!

So, I do this – pow! I throw it off!

As long as you have a strong desire, there is no need for willpower. Everything you need is “know-how” and a strong desire!