Shaping up from within

I haven’t read Victoria Moran’s book “Fit from within,” but I like some of the ideas she has to share on losing weight without diets by integrating a spiritual component.

She wrote in part:

The people I know who maintain weight losses indefinitely and who do so without anxiety, are those who have, in whatever way fits their own religious and philosophical sense of things, surrendered their eating and weight issues to some Higher Power. This is not the same as promising God you'll never overeat again, nor is it making deals, begging and pleading, or acting pitiful in hopes of receiving divine pity. (If you've done those things, you know how poorly they work.)

Instead, including a spiritual component is simply knowing when you're
up against something that is too much for you and your best intentions to handle on your own. It's realizing where you're weak and depending on something strong, whether you think of that as God in heaven or a Power that, although beyond your human ego, resides inside yourself.

She also wrote with tongue-in-cheek:

Anybody who has been able to made a god out of a snack cake certainly has enough imagination to envision Someone who gave you the stars and the seasons, your son and your daughter.

As I read the above, I was reminded that true fitness is a state of Mind, of the divine Mind expressed through us. Any ideas that help us demonstrate more dominion in our thinking over the excesses of mortal mind that lead to excess on the body are going to benefit humanity’s effort to lose unnecessary extra weight.

Thank you, Victoria, for sharing your life experience in tackling a tough problem for many from a spiritual point of view.