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New Year's Resolution: To Give Up Biscuits
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How I Gave Up Eating Biscuits

By Cherise Holt · On June 4, 2014
New Year’s Resolutions: To Give up Biscuits

One New Year’s Eve I made a resolution – to give up eating the biscuits in my workplace staff room. These biscuits appear consistently on our kitchen table and magically reappear, just when you think the tray is almost empty!

With certainty, throughout my decade of practising as a nurse they have always been there and for me they seemed impossible to ignore, but I was determined to sever my relationship with them.

ENOUGH of the biscuits already! I knew I never felt great after eating them. I would feel physically bloated and sluggish as I returned to work, or my body would be buzzing from the sugar while I blamed myself for displaying a lack of self-control.

So how hard could it really be to give up eating biscuits, once and for all?

I was armed with determination and a co-worker’s moral support; I held a belief in my head of what it meant to be ‘healthy’ and biscuits never made the cut. I thought if I was committed to making this my reality, this could be the first resolution (in my history) to actually be successful.

And it worked! For one month I gave up eating biscuits…

Come February, not only was I hard on myself for giving into the sweet temptation, I had now confirmed that I knew resolutions don’t work. But most importantly, I knew I hadn’t dealt with why I wanted the biscuits in the first place and without this critical key, how could I choose whether I really felt to eat them or not?

To unearth the reasoning behind my choices with food (which included eating biscuits) I didn’t require will-power or a plan of attack (or even a cold turkey!). Contrary to my old behaviours of self-bashing, abuse and loveless discipline, I discovered that:

  • Self-Responsibility
  • Self-Honesty and
  • Self-Love were the keys that would support a new foundation for my relationship with me and my relationship with food.

It made no difference whether I sought biscuits and sweets, heavy carbs or salty snacks and even handfuls of nuts, vegetables or fruit. For many years I chose and ate foods that created a sense of comfort and a layer of protection in my body through their creamy textures and highly distracting side effects.

But what was there to seek comfort for and protect myself from?

I have held an array of ideals and beliefs as to who and how I am supposed to be in this world, keeping me either searching outside of myself for recognition from others or feeding the need to fit in and be liked; cementing further the belief that who I am is not enough.

A New Way of Living Without Biscuits

But what I now deeply know to be true is that I am amazing and I am enough, by simply being myself. I know this always, but sometimes the old beliefs and patterns of behaviour come along and I hold myself back from simply being me in the world. When this happens – it hurts me deeply – and I seek comfort and protection to not feel the sadness in my body.

I was able to understand the real reasons behind my biscuit eating through regular sessions with my Universal Medicine practitioners, but before this I used to think I was seeking certain foods for their comforting qualities and that this was the normal way to live.

I now know our greatest form of protection is to be ourselves in full – to live tenderly with ourselves and others and to not hold our true selves back from the world. When I allow this knowing to be my way of living there isn’t a biscuit in the universe that could contend with the amazing feeling of being me.

Inspired by Serge Benhayon and the work of Universal Medicine.

By Cherise Holt, Nurse, Brisbane

Related reading:
My Body’s Reactions to Gluten, Dairy and Sugar

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Cherise Holt

You’ll find me at the nearest sunset or sunrise, or in the longest gaze with those bright stars above. Born, raised and enjoying life in Brisbane, I am at home anywhere there is people and I LOVE my job in nursing, writing, singing, capturing beauty in a photo, being a mother and smiling at the smallest of moments in between.

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533 Comments

  • Melinda Knights says: July 2, 2019 at 3:02 pm

    Being part of the Universe or a biscuit… it’s not really a fair match! 🙂 Jokes aside, I really appreciated reading this today, feeling that emptiness from not living connected to all of myself can lead to all sorts of behaviours that aren’t supportive. Instead of willpower maybe we need to look more closely at the relationship we have with shining and living connected to our inner amazing selves. Thanks Cherise.

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  • Greg Barnes says: January 9, 2019 at 6:28 am

    Our food choices to nurture and nourish with nothing that will elevate or make us racy is a great learning as we will all benefit from eating from our bodily experiences that confirm our essences.

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  • Leigh Matson says: January 2, 2019 at 3:54 am

    Not being me is why I seek foods or behaviors that don’t agree with me. While so simple I feel I run away from such simplicity still.

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    • Michelle Mcwaters says: February 12, 2019 at 4:17 am

      Great though to be aware of this pattern so you can observe it. I find that I seek foods still that my body has grown out of too but I am aware that the propensity to do this is when I am being called to go to a new level of awareness and love that I haven’t yet reached. Underneath there is more of a focus on the tension (hence the eating) rather than simply allowing myself to be the love I am.

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  • Nicola says: December 10, 2018 at 3:50 pm

    Nothing works like love – greatest power on earth. It is only through loving myself and feeling the delicious benefits of not numbing or harming myself that I changed my eating patterns.

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  • Annelies van Haastrecht says: December 1, 2018 at 6:52 am

    A biscuit can not be stronger than living ”I am amazing and I am enough, by simply being myself.’

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    • Paul says: March 2, 2020 at 11:07 am

      Being myself is enough and I am amazing also ,superb words and thank you?

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  • Lorraine Wellman says: October 28, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    Awesome Cherise, yes we are here to live ourselves in full, ‘our greatest form of protection is to be ourselves in full – to live tenderly with ourselves and others and to not hold our true selves back from the world.’

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