The Weight-Loss Struggle

During lunch I was struck

By the sight of two

Seemingly happy

Young adult women

What caught my attention

Was the size of their body,

Which displayed an

Over-enthusiasm for all things

Culinary O_o

Up until ten years ago

I experienced an 

Over-enthusiasm for food as well

I always managed to carry around

Weight that wasn’t needed

How do I know it wasn’t needed?

Well because it was visible

(Read: Muffin top)

I equate this excess of weight

With an excess of

EMOTIONAL WEIGHT

Heavy, unnecessary, murky, stale,

EMOTIONAL WEIGHT

Emotional weight that requires

Soothing and accepts

Any form of excessive behavior as

Fair currency

Overeating, over-drinking, oversleeping

Over-sexing, over-spending, over-medicating

Over-cleaning, over-clinging

Any kind of obsessive compulsive behavior

Is food for the emotional pain

That cries out for healing

My body began to let go of the excess weight

When my mind began to let go of the

Emotional weight

I don’t think losing weight is easy

Mostly because it requires a change

Of perspective;

A different way of seeing oneself

When a person loses weight

Without changing the way

They see themselves, the weight

Slowly but surely creeps back in

Weight loss programs should

Be coupled with psychotherapy

And low-high-introspection intervals

For longterm weight loss success

And that is my expertly advice
:)