Ever had that sinking feeling when you started to leave the store and realized you had lost your car keys?

The sinking feeling morphs into panic and your whole being goes into overdrive. You are looking everywhere and you finally remember there is a Lost And Found department. Ah! You run there ever so fast and see the clerk pulling the door closed and you hear the lock turn, just as you make it there.

But, you know she’s there. You still feel there’s a chance she’ll hear your plea and open the door just for you.  So, in rising voice, you beg for the door to open – all you need is a peek! And your prayers answered. She opens the door just a slit as if she’s doing something wrong and listens to your story. She smiles, “Yes, someone turned that in earlier. I’ll get it for you.” Then, she hands over your item. Tears are not enough to show your thanks, but you try to tell her how good she is and how much you appreciate what she did for you.

The panic feeling washes out of your body replaced by feelings of happiness and relief. You tell yourself, “I’ll never do that again.”

Imagine that the next week you’re shopping at the same store and you lose your keys again. You turn up at the same Lost and Found department and talk to the same helpful lady. She has them. The scene is repeated and you tell yourself again, “I’m never going to lose my keys again.” But, you do.

How would you feel if you did this every week?! Would you allow yourself to keep losing your keys or would you recognize a “pattern”? Now, think about how many times you’ve lost weight. How many times did you gain it back? Isn’t it a little like the Lost and Found story? You suddenly become aware you’ve lost weight! You’re happy and relieved.

BUT, soon you’re at the Lost and Found begging for the pounds be returned to you. And, they are no matter how many times you’ve lost them. That may sound silly but it’s about 99.9% true for most people. There are thousands of people pounding on the Lost and Found door wanting their weight to be returned to them. I can hear you. You’re saying, “I didn’t want my lost pounds to return. They came back on their own.”

Really?

Think about the choices you made right before your pounds showed up in your life after you thought they were gone for good. Just as it would be ludicrous for us to keep losing our keys, the same is true when we repeatedly lose and gain weight.

Here’s why you do it. Despite what we’ve been taught, we are all emotionally hungry in some way. That’s right. We all connect with food emotionally in some way, but society and the media don’t touch on this part of weight management. So, I’m here to tell you that before you can be seriously committed to any weight loss plan or address any challenges you have around eating or weight loss, you need to look inside yourself first.

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