This morning, while completing 4000 of today’s 10000 steps on the nustep machine (yay–go me) , I heard Susan Cheever being interviewed on the Today Show.
She has written an article in this month’s Self Magazine. “Is Being Too Nice Making You Fat?” argues that women who take crap often eat crap. They eat to comfort themselves when they are upset and tamp down their feelings with another and another mouthful of food. Susan calls obesity “the American Burqa” –the way that women become invisible to the world and cut themselves out of having a choice about what they want, say and do. Susan says that by sticking up for herself and speaking up about what’s important to her (nothing major, just “I’d rather sit over there”, or “let’s see Larry Crown not Harry Potter, or “I’d like to use the computer now”) she has lost 20lbs.
Lack of assertiveness is not really my issue, but it is for many of the women here at Duke Diet and Fitness center, and perhaps it is for you. Might finding your voice help you lose your appetite?
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