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same message and reminded himself of this truth every day until it stuck.
    In Richard’s case the drive to be more and the need to eat more stemmed from his core feeling of never being enough. This had made him become a very successful actor because he wanted and needed everyone to see him as something and someone, but he never believed it of himself and was very unhappy and overweight because of it.
    I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to tell yourself you are enough. It is so simple but the results can be life changing. You must say ‘I am enough’ constantly. Say it out loud. Say it with feeling. Say it like you mean it and say it over and over again and do so for weeks until it sinks in and replaces the feeling that you are not enough, which may be driving you to overeat. This will make you feel enough, whereas overeating will not. Begin and end every day with the words:
    ‘ I am enough ’, and ‘ I am always enough ’, ‘ I am more than enough ’, ‘ I have enough ’.
    Write it on your screensaver, your mirror, stick a note on your wallet and your fridge, write it on your hand if it helps and repeat it to yourself over and over and really get it because it’s true !
    Saying ‘I am enough’ before eating is particularly helpful as it can really curb your appetite and remove the desire to overeat. Say it at the end of every meal as well to confirm that you don’t need more. You can say it in your head when you are with company but say it out loud whenever you can. If you find yourself munching away on bags of nuts or any portable food just put them down and remind yourself ‘I am enough, I don’t need these’.
    Many people when they first fall in love totally lose their appetite. During the first flush of love when they are constantly told by their partner ‘I love you, you’re amazing, you’re the best’, they do feel enough, they believe it will be like this forever and their hunger diminishes because they are so nourished emotionally. When I met the love of my life I knew it was the real thing because we went away together for the weekend and both of us had no desire to eat at all. I knew women did that but I was amazed and secretly thrilled that he did the same.
    At this point you might be wondering how such a method can really work, especially if when you repeat ‘I am enough’ to yourself you find your mind coming up with all kinds of objections such as ‘I am not really enough, I have cellulite and I can’t wear stylish clothes’. At this stage many people give up not realising that it is you who is coming up with the objections and you who has the power to stop them. To fix that for good, counter the objections like this: ‘Yes I have cellulite, and I am still enough,’ and ‘I will wear stylish clothes even sooner as I accept I am enough’.
    Then ‘I am not enough or I wouldn’t be alone’ becomes ‘I am enough and I don’t have to be alone’. And ‘How come I don’t have a boyfriend if I am enough?’ becomes ‘My fears kept men away, but as I accept I am enough so will any man I get involved with. The more I like me the more they will like me.’ And ‘I am always hungry’ becomes ‘I feel full, nourished and satisfied by so many things other than food.’
    It’s natural initially to come up with objections to the ‘enough’ affirmations – what you need to do is look at the objections and shoot them down with something better. If you are determined and keep on with the affirmations, eventually you will run out of objections and your mind will conclude, ‘You say this so often and with such conviction it must be true’ and with that your mind is agreeing with you and you are finally making real progress. Now you are becoming a physical expression of what you believe I am enough instead of becoming a physical expression of the opposite: I am not enough.
    A few months after my session with Richard I was walking towards my gym and saw a man ahead of me on