If You Are Responsible for Your Big Size, You Can Do Something About It - By: Pat Matson

I've spent my lifetime being a woman of size. The whole process left me feeling extremely vulnerable and incapable of doing anything about it. I knew I certainly wasn't responsible for it! Growing up, I thought the problem could be blamed on heredity. Along the way, I developed a strong distaste for my father's nagging me about it, so I decided to blame him for it. And of course, there is always food. Yeah, let's make food the culprit. Or the lack of exercise. That's a good one too. Or metabolism. How I yearned to have low thyroid so that could fix the problem. Baby fat. They promised me I'd grow out of it during puberty. It never happened.

None of those issues was to blame. It took me years and years of searching for the right answer to stop the madness and what I discovered absolutely astonished me.

I discovered that it was my thinking fat that was causing the fat. Nothing else.

As I look back through my life from my senior status elevation, I can see that obesity was the main catalyst in my search for understanding about myself and about life. I'm so grateful that I had it to keep the fires lit under me and keep me searching for the truth and for a solution. Seek, and ye shall find. And I did.

I discovered that life is solely a mental experience. There is only you, thinking. That's all there ever has been. It is the invisible, underlying cause behind all the experiences and events of your life, because it is true that what you think is precisely what you get. So you get to be responsible for all of it and in particular, you get to be responsible for your size.

This is a really good thing. If you are responsible, then you can do something about it. You can change the way you think about yourself. Here are some ways to begin focusing within your sweet self:

- Watch your mind when it thinks about YOU.

- Classify the way you think about your self as positive or negative.

- Look for trends. Mainly positive? Mostly negative?

- Which of the classifications would you want to change.

- Write down some specifically positive ideas you would prefer to think.

- If you observe that you are thinking the way you always have, resolve right then to change that to your newer ideas.

- Examine what is the difference between how you think about yourself and how a thin friend thinks about herself.

- Try thinking as she does. (It might be uncomfortable at first but persevere.)

Only you can change you. Only you can be responsible for thinking your thoughts. Only you can free yourself from the thoughts you now think that are creating your fat body. Only you are responsible for your big size and the kind of thinking that created it. I know in my heart that you are the right woman and that the job is doable. It might, however, require some work. You're the woman of size who can stop the madness. Imagine: if the 65% of Americans who are obese began to use mental methods to own the responsibility for their condition, what might happen? Let's find out!

About the Author

Pat Matson is a Big Size Woman who uses spiritual principles to help women overcome their struggles with body image. If you are a woman of size and you'd like more tips to help you achieve self-acceptance, get Pat's free report, You Are Good and Perfect Right Now and I Can Prove It! at The World of Within.

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