100 Pounds Ago...I Started Learning How to Love Myself More Than the Pleasure of Food

by Charles A. Postma

The failure rate for manmade diets is 98.3%. The reason why manmade diets fail is because they are, well, manmade. Fasting does not have this fatal flaw. I was never one of the 1.7% of people who reached goal weight and stayed there. I reached my goal weight twice, but it wasn't sustainable because the diets I used did not address food's grip on my mind nor my food addiction. At its core, fasting is to do nothing. Nothing is easier to do than nothing. The real struggle is breaking food's grip...