Trust Yourself

Trusting yourself often means following your intuition or your gut feelings . Intuition is a great self-help tool because we all have it and it's with us at all times. Your intuition can tell you a lot about what you really want and don't want in your life, and what you need to be successful.

Unfortunately, your intuition is all too often ignored. Your gut instinct might not seem logical, desirable, or even practical, so you might disregard it and let your rational mind take over. Or in the past, you might have trusted diet plans to help you lose weight and when they failed, you might have wrongly attributed the failure to yourself. Or you might be too distracted by emotions or external noise to pay attention to what your intuition says. But just like physical pain, your intuition is usually trying to tell you something important.

Use that knowledge to guide you to making better decisions for yourself in the future. You'll find it easier to trust yourself if you believe you are in control of your own destiny, you're responsible for most of what happens to you from this point on, and you'll get what you want by working hard. If you feel your life is out of your control or you have little control over what and how you eat, you will probably feel anxious and less able to trust your own decisions.

If you're an emotional overeater, and you've struggled to manage your weight over time, you probably now have a better understanding of the physical and psychological reasons for your eating behaviour, and you know diets don't work. You know there are underlying reasons why you have food issues, and you know you have to address those issues before you can permanently change your eating habits.