You don’t just wake up weighing 315 pounds. It is really a slow and unconscious process of living in a state of numbness. This shutting off starts with disconnecting from your own body and losing touch with the signals that should be telling you that you are overeating and undermoving, and in my case, I became so numb to my own body that I almost died as a result of ignoring an ongoing issue that I stuffed aside for months. Step 1 in my comeback story was figuring out how to reconnect with what my body was telling me about food, and I found 1 simple question that never steered me wrong and laid the foundation for every food choice I made from that point on.
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