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If you’re with me, we’ll start with some hard facts that you may not want to hear. First, there ain’t no Fairy Godmother! Sorry. No magic wands to make that fat disappear. It took time for that fat to settle so comfortably round your waist and hips—it will take time for it to go. So? What are you doing for the next few months, maybe even the next year, while you lose the weight? You will still be living the same life, with the same family, same friends, same job – only gradually getting slimmer. There’s no hurry. No-one is offering you a contract to pose naked for a Playboy centrefold – are they?

Now the rest of the ‘real deal’ facts—let’s get them all out of the way as quickly as possible:

1. Your body shape is the result of your lifestyle choices. It is the type of food you choose to eat, the quantities you serve for yourself, the exercise you do – or don’t do – and the excuses you make for those decisions. All these factors determine what you look like and how you think about yourself.

2. Losing weight starts in the mind. If you just focus on the food, all you end up with is the Atkins Diet. The thoughts you put into your mind influence which foods you put into your mouth. ‘Ooh that looks delicious.’ ‘Surely a little bit won’t hurt.’ ‘I’ve had a lousy week.’

If you agree with those two statements, you must also agree that the reason you are fat is because you are choosing to be. This is the most difficult concept to take on board, but let’s face it: you are the only one who puts food in your mouth. You can’t be fat unless you overeat on a regular basis, and you can’t do that unless you arrange your life so that you are constantly around food. You probably use food for every occasion – as a celebration when you are happy, as a calming agent when you are stressed, as medication when you feel down, and as companionship when you feel bored or lonely.

For you, food is providing some sort of purpose other than nutrition. You are feeding some need in yourself. As long as that unacknowledged need is there, it won’t make any difference which diet you follow or how many times you succeed (temporarily) in losing weight. If you don’t know why you overeat, then you will never remain permanently slim.