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the serious news anymore and you reach for a gossip magazine at the grocery store, you see stories and photos of movie stars far thinner than you are being ridiculed for being fat!
    How does it feel to pick up on all that every day? Bombarded by stories about financial threats, or being too fat, do you start thinking, “OMG, I need to go on a diet! Or “Gee, today would be a good day for a martini—with a giant bowl of bar snacks”? Some people aren’t easily tempted by racks of chips and sugary sodas, which seem to be within reach wherever we go. Some people aren’t experiencing information overload, and they don’t feel overwhelmed by the emotional turbulence. Maybe they compartmentalize their emotions better than we people who feel too much, or they easily talk themselves out of worrying about people and situations they can’t influence.
    It’s likely that these people just are not wired, as we are, for extreme empathy. They have “thicker” boundaries. But if you’re more sensitive, more empathetic, you’re likely to struggle with your weight and with disordered eating. You are taking on the weight of the world, figuratively and literally.
    How does this work, exactly? How does fear become fat, and how does frustration end up on your belly and thighs? Let’s look next at the way our weight is influenced by the energy field we share with each other, and the research that shows its physical effects on us.
    KEEP IN MIND  …
    â€¢We’re able to take on others’ emotional energy and feel what they feel. This experience is called empathy , and people who feel too much are more empathetic than most.
    â€¢Humans are becoming more empathetic because we’re all more connected than we have been in the past.
    â€¢The discomfort of empathy overload causes people who feel too much to shut down and withdraw from social interactions, and to detour into behaviors such as overindulging in food. We turn to food to feel grounded in our own physicality, separate from the confusing jumble of emotions we’re experiencing. Our eating becomes disordered as a result.
    â€¢Empathy overload can also cause weight gain that seems to defy logic.
    â€¢At very stressful times in our lives, we are more likely to be overwhelmed by our emotions and respond with disordered eating.
    â€¢To release the weight of the world we are carrying emotionally, energetically, and physically, we must develop the ability to close up our porous boundaries and manage our empathy. Then it will be easier to address any disordered eating.
    â€¢To start this process of learning to manage our porous boundaries, we need to look back at the threads in the tapestry of our lives and see how feelings, foods, and our relationship to our bodies are intertwined. That’s the focus of Step One.

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    When You Carry the Weight of the World
    If this were any other weight-loss book, you would not expect Chapter 2 to be about shared energy fields and our interactions with our bodies, emotions, and thoughts. Why am I sending you down a quantum rabbit hole after chocolate-covered carrots? Because this is not a typical weight-loss book. We’re going beyond mechanics and into quantum mechanics, into exploring the energy of thoughts and feelings and interactions. It’s not just the food that goes in your mouth that makes you fat, or the physical energy you expend that makes you thin. What you take in from the field of energy around you filled with information whizzing around like radio waves affects your weight, too—and this is the thread we’ve got to look at if you are going to get to the bottom of why you’re not losing the weight.
    Researchers are still learning about the mind/body/spirit connections, so I can’t tell you exactly how your weight fluctuations and your mental state are related, but I can suggest some connections. There have been many intriguing scientific