If your head is hungry, feed it. If your heart is hungry, feed it. If your soul is hungry, feed it. When your body is physically hungry, feed it. And stop when your body is physically satisfied. It’s tricky but well worth practicing.

When your body rebels against all the previous restrictions, I believe it’s trying to save you from what it feels to be famine. Nature and our bodies don’t understand “diet.” The body understands the experience to be a famine. And it will try to save you by sending up messages to EAT! Feed me, save me, love me, take care of me. And then we do eat, & we just can’t stop because we’re so, so hungry after all the deprivation.

Deprivation is the problem. The truth is, if you stop depriving yourself, you will stop eating at some point. I know it doesn’t feel that way at first, but you will stop eating if you stop depriving yourself.

That was a big “aha” moment: I can stop eating because I can eat whenever I’m hungry. Food will always be there. No one is ever going to take it away from me again. Of course, I was the only one who ever took food away from me. I never went on another diet again. It has been 19 years!

I want to be famous for STOPPING dieting!