If Not Dieting, Then What – Applying Rick Kausman’s To Change Your Eating and Relationship Patterns

This post is about discovering your beliefs so you can avoid relying on willpower to change your patterns. Willpower is notoriously fickle. In Rick Kausman’s book “If not dieting, then what?” he talks extensively about avoiding the willpower trap. In this post I take some of Rick’s thinking and mix in my own perspectives on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I also talk about willpower in context of both eating and relationships. There are 3 steps to change your eating and relationship patterns without using willpower: 1 – Understand Your Beliefs – your behavior is being unconsciously controlled by subconscious beliefs. The first step is simply discovering what your subconscious mind believes. 2 – Question Your Beliefs – after coming up with some ideas as to your subconscious beliefs, now you challenge, identify how current beliefs are black-and-white, identify how current beliefs help and harm, and question these beliefs. 3 – Write Out A New Gameplan – after coming up with more realistic versions of your beliefs, now it’s time to write out how you will take action the next time a situation occurs. Whenever you’re ready, here are some more ways I can help: Download Eating Enlightenment Food Journaling App!