Lose weight effortlessly

How I was able to lose weight effortlessly

I had a history of ‘feeling’ big, feeling fat with little to no basis in reality. I also had a history of monitoring everything I ate. It became an obsession from vegetarian to vegan to raw and back. I’ve tried it all and through it all I knew that accepting my body was not as simple as eating the ‘right’ foods and watching perfection unfold. I was never an obsessive eater nor overeater. Sure, I could have exercised more but couldn’t we all? I studied nutrition at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York just after the fall of the Twin Towers. The course was like a comparative religion course but, of course in nutrition. This was the beginning of the end. I realized that all my so-called healthy eating habits were nothing more than an obsession and no obsession is a good obsession. I realized my righteous ways were a disguise for hard-core judgement. Judgement about myself, my body, others and their ways, about food, politics, the world and all of creation. I was trying to micro-manage in a true control-freakish way natural intuitive nutrition. I quickly learned that food is only a small part of nutrition and that what feeds us most is what was dubbed ‘primary food’, that which feeds our souls. The serious food rebellion ensued and I ate whatever I wanted to or whatever was presented to me knowing that it was so much less important than how I felt about it. I maintained a healthy weight and a more healthy than ever outlook on life.
Then something changed. Just as life was flowing smoothly and I was lined up with my dreams, I let one of those dreams, that which I thought was my life’s purpose get away. I felt hopeless, dream-less and sad. I fell into a relationship out of loneliness which went sour and as the bad feelings grew, so did I. So I began to micro-manage what I ate (though I knew it wasn’t food that got me in that situation in the first place, if only it were so easy!) and joined a gym. I did cleanses and bought a new pus sized wardrobe and the pounds kept piling on. I was doing everything ‘right’ but the situation kept getting worse.
The relationship ended and I literally gave up, I think I quit my job at the time too. And then the miracles began. I was shrinking. I had quit the gym but I began to dance more, just because it was fun. I gave up micro managing my food intake and focused on joy. I shrank and found new muscles, I danced and I bought new clothes. I got super fit and no longer even wanted to wear clothes (hence the picture). How did it happen. Release resistance (stop trying) and get happy. What would you be doing to get in that happy place if you traded the time you spent trying to fix yourself for happy time?
I’d be salsa dancing on a beach.