Be careful what you wish for

A NEW Year has begun and many will be making New Year resolutions.

May I just warn you when making these resolutions to be careful what you wish for! I have taken steps towards a new healthier lifestyle. I’ve had hypnotherapy to try and stamp out my chocolate and Chinese takeaway addictions.

Chocolate filled my every waking thought and Chinese food was my stable diet, but after having a hypnotherapy session via Skype with a therapist in London I have not eaten a piece of chocolate or a Chinese takeaway since October 2012. I kid you not! I never expected it to work to be honest, but now I find the thought, smell and look of chocolate or Chinese food repels me. I have lost 11 pounds since having the treatment even though I haven’t dieted. This is what I always wanted, to be free from the hold chocolate and rubbish food had over me, it’s great isn’t it? I bet you’re reading this and thinking that’s fantastic, I wonder would it work for me? I can tell you it probably would, my love for chocolate was deeply ingrained, chocolate was a huge part of my life, heck, it was my life! Now it’s gone and there is a small ache in my heart where my beloved chocolate used to be. There’s nothing much to look forward to these days, no rewards. For instance there will be no treat for me finishing this column. Before I would have celebrated finishing a column with a cup of tea and a packet of Maltesers. I would have melted the Maltesers in my mouth with the tea and reached heights of ecstasy once could only imagine. There is no longer a Chinese takeaway on a Saturday night, no naughty sweet and sour when I feel like a treat, to be honest life without junk food is really rather boring but I fear there is no way back for me, I no longer like the taste of these foods but I crave the feelings, planning and euphoria they once game me. No doubt with this new healthy lifestyle I’ll live to a ripe old age, now that I’ve given up all the things that made me want to live to a ripe old age!

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