Dear HippieChick:

Because of the negativity you experienced in the past in association with eating better and exercising, now that you think of these things, the negativity established already in connection with these two things (positive in themselves) returned, naturally.

The only way to overcome this is to create new connections, or associations between eating better/ exercising and positive feelings.

TO do that you have to do these things differently: diet and exercise. Not the same ways as before. Your goal and focus doing these things needs to be different than before.

This time the goal is not: change this unsatisfactory body to satisfactory but something like.. well, you come up with a different goal if you are following and agreeing with me so far. The goal needs to be yours, totally yours. Looking forward to your reply.

anita