Your Ideal Body

JUST FOR TODAY:  If you could change anything about your body, what would it be?  Imagine what else would change... is this what you really want?

Smaller hips.  Thinner thighs.  Bigger breasts.  Firmer abs.  Fewer wrinkles.  The list goes on.  If you could magically change your body to be exactly the way you want it, how would you look?  Get a clear mental image of your ideal.  With a "perfect body," what would be different in your life?  How would your new body free you?  Limit you?  What would you have to do to maintain your ideal?  Are you willing to do whatever it takes?  Is it really possible to achieve this ideal and maintain it for the rest of your life?  Why is this ideal so important to you?  What would happen if you never attained it?  How would letting go of this ideal limit you?  Free you?  Contemplate your answers to these questions, and consider the possibility that the body that you have right now is ideal.  If you are extremely anorexic or morbidly obese, realize that it is your current body which will take you to a healthy weight.  Gradual changes are healthy changes.  The body that you have right now is exactly the body that you need.

©2010 by "Dr. Dorie" McCubbrey, M.S.Ed., Ph.D. – Eating Disorder & Obesity Treatment Specialist – Denver, Colorado