by Rob Stevens wrote The Overfed Head

Created on: August 20, 2010

Our Natural Birthright to Be Thin

When we were first born, we were in touch with our bodies and felt the natural body sensation of hunger. We innately knew the difference between thinking about food and the feeling of physical hunger. Back then, food’s only purpose was to satisfy our body’s need for more fuel. We knew exactly which foods we liked and which ones we didn’t like. We only ate the foods that tasted good to us and never ate any foods that didn’t taste good to us. We were also aware of the moment when our bodies had enough fuel, which is precisely when we stopped eating. These sensations and responses to food and hunger are all natural and all given to us by nature. Our bodies were designed to work in harmonious accord with nature, from that day and forever.

But for many of us, there came a point in time when we stopped listening to our bodies. We started listening to our heads or to what other people said about when, what and how much we should eat. We mistakenly believed that someone else knew something more than we did about our bodies. We began to listen to and learn from them, rather than stay connected to our own natural birthright to be thin or what I call honoring our own thintuition.

The highly profitable diet industry has lured us away from trusting our own bodies for the answers on how to be thin. Losing weight can be a natural process. It doesn’t have to cost you a dime. In fact, the act of spending money is rooted in the belief that going outside of your body will give you the answer about how to be thin. Those solutions are all artificial and not designed to have you succeed long term. If you succeed, permanently, they will forever lose you as a customer. You’ll fail in time, just as you have always done, because their artificial solutions are not in alignment with how your body was originally designed to operate, at maximum efficiency. Then they’ll blame you for failing. That way, you will keep coming back to them for more solutions. Once you’re hooked, it’s hard to get off the merry-go-round of diet mentality.

The education available to you from thintuition will return you to a natural state, when you had the innate ability to listen to your body, not your head, with regard to food and eating. Naturally thin people have retained this ability, which they inherited from birth. The good news is that you can relearn to have it too. You are fully capable of learning new behaviors around

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