Lose Weight
Weight loss is a subject that has interested me for many years as I have been fascinated by why people get overweight in the first place and subsequently why they find it so difficult to lose weight and maintain their weight. Most of us have put a few pounds on here or there especially at Christmas time or maybe after our summer vacation, but obesity and substantial weight gain is quite another matter.
Having run a slimming club in the past I have seen many hundreds of people who are desperate to lose weight. So many of them have been trying to lose weight for years and have tried every fad diet they could lay their hands on
Often one of the problems is that people simply see themselves as fat and unattractive and so consequently if they see themselves as fat they will eat as if they are fat, reducing their chances of losing weight considerably. One of the first things to conquer is this negative view of themselves. It maybe impossible for an overweight person to see themselves as slim but if they can start to behave as if they are slim they will start to eat like a slim person and slowly the weight will start to disappear.
Nothing is quite a simplistic as that but all these aspects need to be taken into consideration if the ability to lose weight successfully is to be optimized. It is a form of mind over matter and also fits in with the ideas put forward by the law of attraction - you are what you think you are. If you think you are slim then you will attract slimness. If you want to lose weight it is no use eating all the right foods and doing all the exercises if deep down you see yourself as fat and unattractive as you will soon give up, your ability to lose weight will be diminished and you will become once again the fat person you think you are.
I was often shocked by the dietary habits of many of my customers. Never having experienced real food cravings myself I found it hard to believe that anyone could eat a 2 liter tub of ice cream in one sitting, or a whole cake or even a whole packet of biscuits. But these cravings where very real to some people and were the main reason why they put weight on in the first place and then found it so difficult to lose weight.
It would appear that most food cravings are cravings for sugar or white flour products that convert quickly into sugar. This is due to the fact that the person concerned has an inability to stabilize their blood sugar levels and so every time their blood sugar drops they have a craving for sugar to raise the blood sugar level as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately this soon creates a yoyo effect and hypoglycemia is the result - constant low blood sugar - resulting in the regular need for sugar intake. This can be remedied by ensuring that your diet is high in complex carbohydrates as the more complex they are the longer it takes to break them down and the longer the body has to use the energy they are producing. In really bad cases supplementing with chromium can help to stabilize the blood sugar levels as long as this is done in conjunction with a diet high in complex carbohydrates. This will ultimately help you to lose weight more effectively.
A number of people were surprised when they hadn’t lost any weight since the previous week. Mainly this would be because they would have virtually eaten nothing during since the last meeting. They tended to equate no food with weight loss and were equally surprised to hear that to lose weight you have to eat or your metabolism will cease to work. In some cases it may have been necessary for them to eat more than they had eaten with their normal diet and this was something they couldn’t easily understand. It was almost as if they had become afraid to eat in case they didn’t lose weight or put more weight on.
So many aspects of weight loss that I came across were of a psychological nature. People’s perceptions of themselves and what they needed to do to lose weight were so distorted that weight loss was almost an impossibility.
A healthy mind and a positive attitude are so important for any weight loss regime. Many people fail to recognise this vital part of the puzzle and will forever wonder why they don’t lose weight successfully.
Janet Matthews
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