Before any change in eating habits is possible, you must accept responsibility for where you are today.
This is not beating yourself up or berating yourself.
It is simply accepting that circumstances and the choices you have made in the past have resulted in the eating habits you now have.
Start by loving and accepting yourself just as you are.
You are a unique wonderful person.
Respect yourself and all you have achieved in your life.
Is there a defining moment in your life when you started to put on weight? Come to terms with it, accept it, forgive yourself and move on.
Acknowledge that overeating is not a positive influence in your life.
Draw a line in the sand and put all your negative eating habits behind you.
It doesn't matter what has happened in the past.
It is no-ones fault, release the guilt, shame and blame.
The easiest way to do all this is to find a very powerful reason to make you want to change.
This reason needs to be so powerful that you will remain completely focused on your goal no matter what.
For some of you, the reason may simply be that you are just sick to death of dieting, losing weight quickly and then watching as the weight just gradually creeps it's way back on over time.
For others it may be that you have serious health problems and that if you don't change your habits you may in fact die! Work out what that reason is and decide that this is where you start.
There is no looking back just continuous little action steps until you have embraced natural eating.
Ensure you write the reason down and read your statement at least morning and night so you are really starting to focus on why you want to change your negative habits.
A great deal of research shows that it takes at least 30 days of continuous action until something becomes a habit.
So it is imperative to read your card every day for 30 days so your brain realises that this is something that you are really serious about.
Then it will help you find ways to achieve your goal.
Once you genuinely believe that you want to change your eating habits for good, you can then start to put the principles of natural eating into practice.
Again you will have to keep doing each of them every day for at least 30 days until they become instinctive and you don't even think about them.
I can guarantee for a lot of you that you presently eat on auto-pilot.
You may not even be hungry or you may eat far too much, but you don't even know you're doing it because for whatever reason you have just got into negative eating habits.
When I started Natural Eating, I had to work really hard to follow the 4 main principles because it was not natural to me.
But over time, with practice and determination to achieve my health goals, they have now become instinctive and I don't even think about eating.
I just give my body what it wants when it's hungry, stop when I'm satisfied and then move onto something else.
So go for it.
Work out what your reason is to get rid of your negative eating habits, read your statement every day, and then embrace natural eating.
You can do it; you just have to decide you want to!