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Acknowledge and accept accountability for the shape of your body. You are accountable for the type of food you put into your mouth—not some of the time but all of the time. If you follow someone else’s diet that tells you what to eat at each meal, you are simply handing over your responsibility. When you don’t lose weight, it is the ‘diet’ that didn’t work, thereby absolving you of all blame.

You are accountable for the way you see yourself and the way you feel. If, at times, you are angry, hurt or upset, then those are your feelings and you are accountable for their presence in your life. Whatever your circumstances, accepting this key premise—whether you like it or not—means you can no longer dodge responsibility for the position you find yourself in.

If you think I’m labouring this point—I am! If you don’t accept accountability, if you insist that you ‘can’t help’ being overweight, nothing will ever change, plain and simple. By convincing yourself that you are a victim and ‘can’t stop eating’ (of course you can), that you ‘really try’ (obviously not hard enough) and that you ‘hardly eat anything’ (who are you kidding?), you will stay stuck on the diet/binge seesaw for the foreseeable future.

The only person you can rely on to change your life is you. You have free choice. You make the decisions about what you are going to eat; you take responsibility for your shape, your health, your level of fitness and the thoughts that govern all of the above. Once you acknowledge that you are in charge of your life and your eating, it will happen.

Self-choice isn’t deprivation – it’s freedom.