Can You Write Off Your Weight?

I honestly feel there is substance in this claim. Writing makes you think and uses some energy but definitely we dont crave for food. There is more discipline in our thoughts and more control.

I throughly agree with this article. Since starting my writing career in earnest I have been able to lose 70# even though I am handicapped and can't exercise. This means I burn off few calories and must eat very little. But the discipline of writing keeps my mind off my stomach troubles and the concentration involved (I also pray while I write) is so liberating that I simply "forget" and am freed by the words flowing out onto the page. I recommend it for anyone who is attempting the same thing.

I throughly agree with this article. Since starting my writing career in earnest I have been able to lose 70# even though I am handicapped and can't exercise. This means I burn off few calories and must eat very little. But the discipline of writing keeps my mind off my stomach troubles and the concentration involved (I also pray while I write) is so liberating that I simply "forget" and am freed by the words flowing out onto the page. I recommend it for anyone who is attempting the same thing.

I throughly agree with this article. Since starting my writing career in earnest I have been able to lose 70# even though I am handicapped and can't exercise. This means I burn off few calories and must eat very little. But the discipline of writing keeps my mind off my stomach troubles and the concentration involved (I also pray while I write) is so liberating that I simply "forget" and am freed by the words flowing out onto the page. I recommend it for anyone who is attempting the same thing.

I agree with the writer.Any form of expelling your negative emotions should help to keep you happy and in turn make you maintain your ideal weight or for one to reach there. I guess playing some music in background while writing could help too.

I agree with writer as long as you do something which keeps you happy it should help in losing weight. You could also try and add a bit of music playing the background while you write this may add to your flow of thoughts and further help.- Kishore Betrabet

Writing is one method of purging and healing the heart and mind. In the classroom, students are afraid to put thier intermost feelings on paper. Writing about the circumstances that makes one overeat begins very hard, but once the "purging" feeling begins to feel very good. the person comes to realize that this is a method of curing--by acknoledgment and validation. Write all the pain on paper, place it in a journal or shoebox. When you are ready to let it go, put it high on the shelf of the closet, and there let it worry for you. Take a nice thirty minute walk while you think about it, and come home "lifted". I weighted 184 in high school, and now thirty years later weigh 128. I was in emotional pain before, and I boxed up all that pain and became normal with occasional disappointments. Never again will I be tied to food as a cure for pain,

As an English Instructor, I encourage students to "spill" everything onto the paper. Many authors--Ernest Hemingway is a prime example--shaped short stories in their own image and likeness. Hemingway was a very poor example of a soldier, and the character Krebs in "Soldier's Home" was identical to the creator. Writing validates that there are forces interferring in one's life. Penned on paper, these frustrations, worries, and dissapointments may be placed away from the moment, so that nice thoughts may enter. I weighed 184 lbs in highschool. It was a result of my reaction to a great family loss--my father. I simply ate my sorry away. Somehow I began to write all my pain on paper and place it in a shoebox on the top shelf in my closet. That validated my pain, and I could let it go. Now, at fifty years old, I weigh 128 lbs because I do not need the food to comfort me--the writing does.

Writing is one of the tools of Overeaters Anonymous. For all those who are addicted to compulsive overating, come to a meeting or check out OA online. You'll be glad you did and you'll hear more about writing and the other tools of recovery along with the Twelve steps. Come for the weight loss -- you'll stay for the support, the improvement in your health and your new friends.

Never though about this, but I lost many pounds while writing a booik on a deadline.
Whether it is a poem, an essay, a history, or a letter to an editor--any one takes you
deep, deep down in yourself. I can sit for six hours, unaware of the passage of time.

I've gone through this myself, and it's actually worked for me as well, so I KNOW this is true. It's even been helping take away my epilepsy. But don't feel like it would help only people with a physical illness. Life is mental. None of us have perfect, easy lives. We're all here to learn. Writing down in our journals does relax us and increases our mental, emotional, then our physical health and nature throughout life. I enjoy writing the end of each day to ponder about what I should be learning from that day. Life is much easier and happier if we just live day-by-day.

I think it was the walks, which she casually mentions, that lead to her weight loss. People underestimate walking. They think that one has to be exhausted after 'working out' to reap any benefits. That's so untrue. She started moving her body, consitisantly, and that counts for alot.

I kept the "morning pages" that Julia Cameron suggested in "The Artists Way" for well over 8 years. I'm not any more creative and I weigh 30 pounds more than I did before the morning pages. (although the last 15 came after I stopped writing -- could there be a connection here??) Regardless, I think it's a good idea, as a matter of fact, I had exactly the same idea about a year ago. I have searched my writing area and found a few pages where I put down the same idea. I wrote that I should "write myself thin." I think it's all the same -- the Artists Way and this diet plan. But since I also had the same idea, I have to think that it would work. I just wish that I'd taken another step and written the book.....

Stream of thought writing increases ones awareness of thought processes. Carrying that understanding into daily conscious application takes practice. There are meditations which follow this same principle but do not involve writing. The principle at work here is dedication and persistence. Writing daily (or meditating) requires both of these, bringing the importance of the action and subject matter(s) to the forefront of thought.

There is nothing new under the sun. As I read this article is sounded like something that is very familiar to me. This happens to be one of the many tools that is recommended in a 12 step program that has supported me to release over 80lbs. I am so very fed up with these so called new revelations. There is one solution to the battle of the buldge Surrender......