You go up and you go down, but really you want to be in the middle, because there is balance.
This is a familiar addiction story: You are on a diet, but suddenly you want to eat chocolate, you get an overwhelming feeling to eat chocolate that you cannot resist. You feel you can't take it and give in. You grab the chocolate that you had somewhere hidden just in case? and you eat it, and you feel good but you feel bad at the same time. Later you feel miserable because you could not resist the urge, and to that bad feeling you eat little more ice cream or whatever helps - it's easier now because you took the chocolate already... and your weight loss plans are scattered?
That is a familiar scenario and we want to get to the bottom of it and really understand what is going on inside us and why is it so hard to control our lives, so let's try to dig deep into this problem:
I start again with an example: one day you stand in front of a mirror and you look at yourself and say - wow I look terrible, I must lose weight - then you make your plan. You try to stick to your plan, but from time to time you slip. Why is that slipping really happening? A week ago you had a strong motivation, but now it's gone - why? Losing weight is not easy.
The energy you had in the beginning was your motivation spark, but after a week you don't have that same energy anymore and old habits creep in. You feel that you must fight against yourself harder. But who are you really fighting against? You are not fighting against yourself, you are fighting against your habits. There is big difference between you and the habits you have acquired during your life. You are the one who gives in to the habits or who controls them, the habits are not you, and you should look at them as emotional habit fields that you have learned to follow. Maybe that sounds trivial, but let me assure its not, and I'm going to explain why.
Let's pretend that you are following some sort of weight loss program and the first couple of weeks go pretty well. Then suddenly something happens that puts you emotionally off balance, I'm talking about stress or disappointment or that sort of stuff.
You feel that you can't take it and you need to do something to get that bad feeling go away somehow. And you comfort yourself with ice cream and chocolate to feel better? this is a very possible scenario, the reasons can be different but I'm sure you get the point.
Someone has said sometime, that eating goodies is compensation for sex. Well, I don't see it quite the same way. Eating sweets is definitely a compensation, maybe it could be also for sex, but we want to feel sweet inside and soothe our emotions because actually we don't feel very happy . You see, we often feel that we don't have enough love in our life, with love I mean the feeling that we are loved and we have fulfillment emotionally. To compensate that lack of love, we find the next best thing, and its sweets, cakes, ice cream...
So really something inside of us feels empty and bad. To this emptiness and bad feeling we eat. This is a fact, not theory, and it is very important to understand.
Also understand that you are not that feeling of emptiness that you face from time to time that triggers the eating. You are the one experiencing that feeling, but you are not that experience, you are the one that chooses how to deal with it! Nothing can touch you, because actually you are free, but you feel so attached to all your feelings and from very young age you are used to say - I feel unhappy, I feel fear - and so on and so forth.
The reason why I'm explaining this, is that understanding this simple fact can give you great strength when you try to understand yourself and fight your emotions. This will help you with weight loss, but also with all troubles in life.
What I want you to actually see, is that you can love yourself. I say it again: You can love yourself.
It's really your choice. You can hate what you take yourself to be - the feelings, the body and your thoughts - or you can simply love yourself. Don't you feel that you deserve to be loved? I bet you do, and you know what, you don't have to be loved by somebody else, you can love yourself, and you can do it right now. You don't have to wait, and I strongly suggest that you start right now!
The best part is, when you start to love yourself you will also respect yourself, and when you respect yourself the others will also see you differently and you will get respect and love from the outside also. So it really is a win win situation.
Don't say you cannot love yourself, or ask how do I do it. You just waste your time on that, because you know what love is - it is sweet and forgiving and happy and light and kind and compassionate and so on.
Lets wrap this up now quickly:
You choose what to do when you get a sudden desire to eat chocolate. You are not the desire, and you can look at the desire and say: I have developed you with my thoughts and habits, and you ask for fulfillment, but I will not give it to you, because if I do, you will harm me and pull me down. Instead I will love you. I will look at you, because you are not me and I will love you, and I will feed you with my love that springs from the source which is me, because I am free and I always will be, and then you will change and eventually fade away, because you are born because I lacked love, but now I love myself and I can take care of my feelings and my body and live a happy and healthy life.
So that will be your attitude, but you also need a good weight loss program to follow that keeps you healthy at the same time.
To your success on all levels.
It is often a surprising thing for people to learn that others they consider fit and attractive are concerned with carrying around excess weight. Often, the expression is one of disbelief, though some have been known to act in a slightly more hostile manner. As unbelievable as this may be, this does reflect the reality that the media has permeated the popular consciousness to the point that everyone believes they need to lose weight. This prevalence has lead to, and can lead to, a multitude of nutritional and medical problems. Anorexia and bulimia are the ones that are getting the most attention, but another big concern would be the excessive use of weight loss pills.
Despite the desire to lose weight, it is a well known fact that a vast majority of people simply do not have the patience or dedication to stick to a long-term diet plan. Others lack the willpower, allowing themselves to succumb to the temptation of that chocolate cake from the cake shop down the street, or that delectable Italian confectionery your neighbor is making. So things like weight loss pills are taken as substitutes, simply because you pop the pill and virtually do nothing else. There might be a warning or reminder that needs to be kept in mind while taking the pills, but overall, the simplicity of using weight loss pills has led to increasing worries in the medical community of the pills being abused.
The primary benefit of using weight loss pills is their ease of use. You pop the pill and generally forget about anything else related to weight loss. The pills come with advice stating that it is better to combine their use with things like exercise and a proper diet, but there are no concrete guidelines on what should be followed. The fact that taking a pill regularly only takes a small amount of time out of a busy day also holds quite a bit of appeal for the busybody that can't be bothered to have a regular exercise routine interrupt his schedule. Most weight loss medications are effective in what they do, with the more common approaches being suppressing the appetite to reduce the amount of food eaten and increasing the metabolic rate to burn through food nutrients faster and more efficiently. Even without a proper diet plan or regular exercise, both functions can help achieve weight reduction with minimal effort on the part of the person.
However, there are potential consequences. It doesn't take a genius to realize that the ease by which weight loss pills can be obtained and used makes them prone to being abused. There are some people that believe that they can eat even more food since the pill will compensate for the increased intake, not realizing that the medication does have limitations and that they are likely putting their health at risk. Another possible problem stems from a combination of the pills and psychology. In the event that a person becomes incapable of recognizing that they no longer need to lose weight, the medications suddenly become health hazards. Finally, there is the possibility of the medication hitting a weight loss plateau,?which is the point where the body develops a tolerance for the drug's effects and renders it useless.
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