comfort, pleasure, guilt, frustration, forbidden fruit, and so on, how much more does that become true for us when we are adults trying to be in "control" of our own eating?
We often take the stories that Mom and Dad told us about food and
begin to add our own narratives to them. Often these stories contain text such as:
"I feel guilty when I eat that."
"I shouldn't eat that because it will make me fat."
"I'm fat, but if I starve myself I can lose weight."
When we don't eat properly our bodies are in a constant state of adjustment, trying to cope with foods that are not ideal for us. The more the body has to adjust to the wrong foods, the less it can focus on physique and performance. Sooner or later these coping mechanisms can break down completely as the cumulative years of poor nutrition catch up to us.
To protect itself from what it perceives as stress and nutritional trauma, the body will begin to hoard more and more fat.
At this moment, at any given time, 40% of all women and 25% of men are on a diet. Ediets.com currently sells more than 30 diet plans.
Gee, I wonder what the point they are trying to make is.
Misery loves variety? Obesity loves company?
I have a hard time trusting anyone who sells everything. I mean if you are passionate about what you do and what you create it seems to me we would be able to find one that works.
98% of those who follow one of those diet plans gain back the weight they lost and then some. In fact, yo-yo dieting promotes more health risks than just being fat.
Dieting can be miserable and traumatic. When we diet, we suffer. Restricting calories makes us tired, irritable, stressed out, and perpetually hungry.
Yet we have come to associate all of those negative feelings with something positive...weight loss. We even congratulate ourselves that we are enduring so much distress and discomfort for a good cause, the cause of being thin.
We get a strange kind of gratification from the drama that dieting creates in our lives.
I guess for some it is something they can fight against, giving their lives purpose and meaning. What a set up for failure that is. Lose weight and you have no purpose and no meaning.
Somewhere along the way we picked up the idea that hunger is a positive thing.
This is not a good thing.
To believe that we can only manage our weight by denying ourselves the very nutrients we need to create an efficient metabolism, a sense of well-being, and optimal health, is a big fat lie.
Weight loss is very possible, and in a large number of cases it can even be easy.
Eat real food. Stay away from anything that is processed.
Avoid high fructose corn syrup and trans fats (Partially hydrogenated oils).
Take fish oil and a monster multivitamin every day to start. They
will help rebalance your body. You can add Regenerizer or the Hercules Factor after a few weeks, or right away if you are determined to succeed fast.
Start an exercise program. Walking is the easiest thing you can do and you should do it every day. Add more things only when you are comfortable.
Get a good nights sleep. If you are having trouble here, order some Sleep Wizard. Sleep is a huge weight loss key.
Eat when you are hungry, and stop when you are full.
When you eat the proper foods you may find that you are eating more than you are used to, and you are still losing weight.
Roll with it.
Food is fuel, and the right food, or fuel, combined with exercise, high powered supplements, and proper sleep, will melt fat quickly.
Weight loss is really body science. Leave the e-motion out, and you'll get the motion you need.
All the best,
Doc
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