Dear Dr. Jack,
You are the first person that I really feel understands this struggle. So much of what you say to me in these conversations just hits me. No thanks will ever say that enough!! I sat here eating dinner and thinking that you really don’t know what you have changed in just a short time. When I called today I thought, wrongly, that here I would be again, that you would tell me, you are screwing this all up! But you didn’t….. You are so encouraging ! do you know….. That for the first time in what seems like years, I ate dinner today and I felt like I could just enjoy it. That it was okay to eat it. That I was doing what you said and the rest you will figure out.
I know you see hundreds of people. But to me, I don’t feel like a number with you. I feel like a person. Like it matters. Like how I am doing matters. No thanks will ever be enough for that either. I just feel like I can succeed with you.
I am so happy that I didn’t give up here…because I was ready to. The day I watched your webinar I kept asking myself what will he say different, but then ALL of it was!
Today I have something I thought I lost…….hope.
I have hope…… And I haven’t had hope in such a long time…. So many years. When this all works for me, I think I should take all these dumb diet books that I have read over and over wondering what I did wrong, and burn them.
You have given me so much help in the last two weeks than a lifetime of anything else. I know this will work for me with you helping me. The difference is YOU! I just wanted to tell you that. Thank you for all you are doing to help me. You know every teacher has like their biggest success story….. I hope I will be yours! Last week I thought this was impossible……..I thought of myself as a total failure. Today, I have hope.
Thank you,
Chris
Dear Chris,
I can’t even begin to thank you for that email. You will have success. I have worked with, literally hundreds, if not a thousand people, and the dedication and enthusiasm that you are demonstrating is in the top 10%. You will succeed and your life will change for the better. Please keep me updated on your healing crisis!!!
I am here for you 100%
Dr. Jack
And this is the stuff you don’t get by reading a diet book. There is nothing in the world that substitutes for this kind of support.
How could he ever understand the struggle? The failed diets, the comments, the criticisms from other people? The constant barrage of people telling me what I was doing wrong?? Today was the first day, that I sat down, ate something and didn’t feel bad about it. I ALWAYS feel bad about what I eat, even if it was healthy. Years and years of dieting and failing does that to you.
But my head kept coming back to what he said. If I do what he tells me and it doesn’t work then it will be HIS problem to try to figure out, it’s not my problem any more. THAT was the biggest load lifted off my back.
Dr. Jack had also explained to me that skipping meals was not the answer to anything. So where I never had morning snacks, that had to become part of my new routine. I had brought some cut up vegetables and had a day of eating. At the end of the day, I wasn’t hungry, I was satisfied and had enjoyed every morsel of it.
This guilt free thing was going to make a huge difference!! And his support? NO WORDS to describe it. Each day I had sent emails, asking all kinds of questions and listening to him explain things. He was never annoyed, never upset that I asked, just patiently answered and explained. This was going to be an education and I was up for that.