The Other Person

Have you ever wondered who the other person was and why they came?

I hear it all of the time. "I lost a whole other person". And it usually comes from someone who lost a significant amount of weight. Usually the amount of pounds you would find on another person.

I've been thinking about this for a really long time and I figure if you can take your weight and divide it by two and both numbers are fitting as a healthy weight for an adult, you my friend have a whole other person living on the inside of you.

It's like your imaginary friend that everyone else can see. Maybe that's why some people cannot lose weight, maybe it's not a weight issue. Maybe it's an emotional issue or a fulfillment of a need you didn't realize you had. Maybe it's your support system, your internal comforter, your protector, your...whatever. Maybe it's a response to an internal call you made in a sub / un conscious state.

Finding out how they got there is part of your work.

Look back. Think. What was going on in your life when you began to gain weight? Go deeper than that. You saw it but you did nothing about it. Why? Remember the moments you noticed the weight gain but still did nothing about it. Why? You nurtured that person into being and you allowed them to grow healthy and steady and in some cases to the point of your own demise. Bringing sickness and disease in to your own body. Buy why? Its not that we don't love ourselves but there is defiantly a reason why.