Don’t change your thoughts! Become aware of them
Becoming aware then allowing your thoughts to simply be as they is very different from trying to replace, get rid of, or change your thought.
Don’t judge your thoughts! All thoughts fit
We’ve been taught to replace a “bad” thought with a “good” thought, or to get rid of “negative” thinking by switching to “positive” thinking. To do this, we have to judge our thoughts as good or bad,
“It’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle”
I happen to know that this person has dieted off and on for years, with accompanying weight cycling. He told me that now he had been diagnosed with prediabetes. Sadly, he had concluded that the solution to his blood sugar problem was another diet, masquerading as a “low-carb lifestyle.”