Thank you for your contribution again David.

I think persistent exploaration with these people and a really good psychological appraisal is how you find the ‘first domino’ – just as you would any therapeutic client.

You have a thorough and comprehensive period of assessment and discussion and explore solutions… Then you’ll tweak the solutions as you progress through it… Just as with any good quality therapeutic response.

The show was on again last night… I despaired that yet again, nothing was done with their mindset… they are just being bludgeoned with fitness gurus, celebrity TV chefs and having their failings highlighted on national TV.

Shame.

The example for your metaphor seems to have many, interconnected layers to it and in my mind, the first task might be sorting out the priority of a multi-pronged solution. It seems that along with motivation, habits and new behaviors as you’ve mentioned, there’s also a good amount of re-education (about nutrition and physiology) that needs to occur. On a deeper level, if a victim-mindset is at the crux of all this (“this problem has happened to me” or “I’m like this because of my genetics”), very little of the other strategies have a hope of working.

So, my question is, “How do you discover the “first domino” that, once tipped, allows the rest to fall into place?

David Eagle

Thanks Helen – good hearing from you 🙂

A.

Thank you for your comments and your candour Lindsay… You illustrate my point very well 🙂

Good hearing from you, A.

We can lock this family up in a room and just feed them fruit and veg until they are smaller, but what will they learn from that? I still have a little way to go before I am the shape I feel is right for me, but I know I can do it because my mind is driving what I do, not my belly.

I want to scoop this family up and tell them that they do have already have a way out, it’s a sad situation and not unique just to this family.