Hello and Welcome to the Secrets To Slim Blog!
I’m Barbara Orban and I’ve been wanting to share so much with the women of the world. So much has changed in my lifetime in terms of the health industry and weight loss industry. So much focus on body image and what we are eating, how much we are exercising. We are constantly searching outside of ourselves for the answer.
What happens when we look inside ourselves? What are our bodies trying to tell us?
Majority of women I am surrounded by are not fully in touch with their bodies. They are confused about their cravings, unsure about when they are full and mostly eat because it’s meal time, eat until there is no food left on their plate and eat when there is food in front of them. The rest of the time they are trying to fight the cravings when they are faced with something they would deem a “bad” food.
The problem is with trusting ourselves. We see our bodies as something we need to push and force in a box we call our “ideal” body, because without forcing and pushing we are just going to be unaccepted and unworthy. Our bodies are bad for wanting to feel satisfied and fulfilled.
What if your body was trustworthy. Would you listen to it? What if your body didn’t want to be fat, or bloated or craving all the time?
The answer is…our bodies are trustworthy! Our bodies are meant to be heard! Opening up the doors to listen to your body is hard. I’ve been there. It’s constant anxiety of waking up each morning wondering if you will overeat, or binge or eat “good”. This is why I started Secrets To Slim, I know how horrible it was to feel the way I felt and how much better it is to be free from the chains of a diet or wanting to be slim but failing at it.
It isn’t even about body confidence for me. I honestly thought my body looked good when I was heavier, it’s not like I had a need to lose so much weight. For me it was more about food confidence, I woke up each day anxious about whether or not I’d let loose and binge.
So many times I’d tell myself I deserved a treat but then ended up eating until I felt so physically full that I couldn’t move. At this point I would feel so guilty and dread gaining weight so then I would promise to only eat healthy the next day which only prolonged the vicious cycle of diets, restriction and bingeing.
I had to learn another way. I was so skeptical of all the “gurus” out there telling me I had to listen to my hunger and eat what I wanted. I thought that Geneen Roth was crazy when I’d watch her seminars teaching women to eat what they wanted. I thought to myself, well she is just naturally slim and I’m not, my body CAN’T be trusted I just love food too much. Her program was great but I still wasn’t able to end the battle, there was so much more I had to learn.
But I was persistent and tried and tried again. I started learning all the secrets to slim by piecing together all the different programs I had done in combination with what I learnt about exercise and nutrition. The rest came to me as common sense and trial and error. There was a lot I had to figure out on my own.
But it worked! My secrets to slim finally paid off. I got to a point where I was content with my weight. I thought to myself, “I’m never going to be a naturally slim girl size 6 (AUS), so I’m content with being a size 10”. So I stopped trying, and to my surprise because I had become so good at not turning to food when I was stressed, I am now a size 6!
In the end I honestly stopped trying, I had so much going on in my life but the new knowledge remained. Once I had learnt how to control my eating the rest was child’s play. That’s how my secrets to slim work, once I had that knowledge it didn’t matter what I was faced with I knew how much to eat and how to feel good.
I honestly can’t wait to share this with the world and help so many women avoid what I went through. Keep in touch below for my secrets to slim.
XOXO Barbara