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Have you noticed how everything these days is over complicated? People want things to be complicated because then it seems as if it is worth it. If the system is too easy, surely it can’t be true and can’t be working. But remember that people who invent diets are just trying to make money out of you and make it so complicated that you are a prisoner to their system. You have to buy their book—and carry it round with you in your handbag at all times so that every time you feel like eating, you have to check back to see if you are doing the ‘right thing’ or the ‘wrong thing’. The diet only works if you are using their method and if you are unsure how the sacred method works, then you can buy the video, DVD, CD, flashcards, food, calorie counter, exercise pack—and that’s a whole lot more money they just made out of you.

The point is that every one of these diet gurus has a part of the truth, but not the whole truth. And following a rigid system disempowers you as a woman. With a twinkle in my eye, I always say that these diets were invented by blokes—blokes who like working on spreadsheets to keep a track of points, calories, goals and other blokey things. We are prisoners to systems to keep us in check. Wouldn’t it be powerful if us girls were liberated from the worry of food and that food became something that we really enjoyed without beating ourselves up about it the whole time? How much more time we would have? Tomorrow the world!