Archive for August, 2010
Is Losing Weight Worth The Trouble?
Every day in newspapers magazines television and online we are exhorted to lose weight. Alarming statistics about our national overweight and obesity rates are regularly revisited and the dangers of carrying too many pounds are trumpeted by dietitians nutritionists medical specialists and the weight loss gurus on their talk show tours.
They don’t have to keep trying to convince us that ideal weight is healthier; we know that. No one has to point out that life is more fun when our activities are not hampered by fifty pounds of excess fat; we know that. The joy of accepting that we look attractive and slim doesn’t have to be hammered into our brains; we know it already!
We know the problem. We try to solve it by starting one of the thousand of diets floating through the media. We shell out our money for supplements pills support meetings and online weight clubs. We know what we need to do and desperately try to follow through.
None of us start a diet intending to fail. The money and time we spend is part of a genuine effort to lose not merely throwing away excess funds to assuage our conscience. But why is the problem getting bigger all the time when millions of us are following the advise we’re being given?
Losing weight is terribly hard. Even more difficult is keeping it off. So we yoyo our way through life eagerly embracing every new program that comes along believing the promises and testimonials we read and waiting impatiently for the silver bullet we pray will appear.
After years of recurrent failure we start to feel hopeless. Our dreams are repetitively battered on the rocks of dozens of unsuccessful diet attempts. We begin to wonder if all the effort is worthwhile. Before we throw in the towel and surrender ourselves to a lifetime of fat let’s look at the process of weight control and see if it’s worth giving it one more shot.
“I want to lose forty five pounds.” A statement like that is usual at the start of a diet. We are willing to take whatever action is needed to get started on our quest. We may try a particular program or a pill or a general cutback in food intake. Whichever approach we take we are focused on our need to lose forty five pounds.
The first week we lose three to five pounds and we are ecstatic smiling down at our scale as if it were an ancient genie oozing out of its magical bottle. The second and third week the loss continues although at a slower pace. We’re still happy and enthusiastic; it is all working as it should.
Somewhere around the fourth to eighth week we hit the first major hump. We are following our program religiously resisting the temptation to cheat even when alone and keeping our eye firmly fixed on that forty five pound goal. One or two weeks go by and the weight loss stops. We tinker with our program cut our intake to the bone force ourselves to exercise. Nothing works the scale mockingly reflects the same numbers we’ve been staring at for three weeks.
The weeks of deprivation physical pangs and unfulfilled emotional cravings appear to be worthless. A little voice starts babbling inside our head: what’s the point of the physical and mental pain if it’s not getting us where we want to go? Maybe it’s not the right time or the right diet. Maybe we’re destined to be overweight and nothing we do is going to change that. Maybe our body’s quirks will thwart any diet we try.
We’re on the skids ready to fall off the straight and narrow. Feeling desperately sorry for ourselves we allow one little treat to ease the disappointment. One treat leads to another and another and another.
Suddenly we’re back where we started with another two to three pounds to boot. Frustrated angry and overwhelmingly guilty we look at ourselves in the mirror and bemoan our apparent destiny: to spend the rest of our lives fat.
What happened? We started out with such high hopes and strong motivation. We played by the rules but the rules didn’t work. We tried terribly hard but our bodies sabotaged our strongest efforts. We feel worse about ourselves than when we started. Is another try even worth it?
Yes! It’s always worth trying again if we really want to succeed. It is the sum of our efforts that counts if we are to reach our goal.
Remember that goal of losing forty five pounds? We still want to do it but we need to modify our mental approach. Let’s put everything into a new perspective. Let’s restate our goal as wanting to lose five pounds per month. That equates to sixty pounds per year fifteen pounds beyond our original goal!
Once our goal has been reframed it lifts the pressure of “I’ve got to keep losing” and reduces the burden to a mere five pounds per month manageable by almost all of us. Depending upon the kind of person you are you can dive right in jump on the diet of your choosing and lose five pounds the first ten days. Then you just have to maintain for three weeks until the first of the next month. If you’re a procrastinator as I usually amdon’t worry about anything until the 20th of the month. Then take stringent measures to make sure you attain that five pound loss before a new month dawns.
What typically happens is that you grow impatient with this rate of loss. You decide to keep going and lose more. If that happens so much the better but limit the mental pressure to that magical five pounds a month. If you end up losing six or eight pounds over the month don’t fret if the scale needle starts to stick because you’ve already exceeded your goal by 20 to 60! Celebrate your victory with an egobuilding nonedible treat.
The reframing of your weight loss objectives in this fashion has unbelievable psychological rewards. You are no longer mentally beating up on yourself for not moving fast enough towards that forty five pound loss elephant but are feeling so good about yourself for meeting or even exceeding that five pound goal that you feel like bubbling over.
And make no mistake about it feeling good about yourself is absolutely critical in weight loss. We who constantly wage the battle of the bulge are famous for our poor selfimage and diminished selfesteem. We hate every roll of fat that pokes over our tootight waistbands. We wince when the mirror reflects flabby arms and saddlebag thighs. We suck in our tummies until we can no longer breathe turn sideways and are still uncomfortably aware that the image we project bears little resemblance to the image in our minds.
We need desperately to increase our selfrespect and our sense of selfworth. We need to nurture our selfimage and selfappreciation. We need to enjoy some continuing successes that can rebuild our battered egos and keep that constant guilt and selfreproach at bay.
Changing the syntax of your weight loss goals can lead not only to a more successful weight loss campaign but can restore your selfbelief and heal the psychological damage caused by too many diet failures over too many years.
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Hypnosis Weight Loss – Does Hypnosis Work?
The word hypnosis never fails to conjure up images of something mysterious shady or even downright occult in the minds of most of us. Be told the word hypnosis and in your mind’s eye you may see the silhouette of a blackhatted man waving his pocket watch back and forth. That mysterious hypnotist figure popularized in cinema comic strips and TV. Its not difficult to reason why most people come to doubt the efficacy or otherwise of hypnosis weight loss.
Though many people believe otherwise its true that subjects under a hypnotic spell are not really enslaved by a master who can then seize control of their actions. They may appear passive and look like they are asleep to an onlooker but are actually in a very hyper attentive state. It is in this state of high alertness that they become extremely open to suggestion. This explains to a very large extent the effectiveness of hypnosis weight loss techniques.
Do you remember the last time you where so weary and lying in bed and you had that wonderful feeling of being overcome with comfort. You then wished it could remain that way for ever. Well the truth is a trained hypnotherapist can help you attain that state quite easily with your cooperation of course. It will then be possible for him to make you visualize yourself becoming healthier happier richer more confident a non smoker or whatever. So also during a hypnosis weight loss session the therapist can induce in you the mindset you need to lose weight control your food cravings exercise regularly and so on.
The rationale behind medical hypnotherapy is that the mind and body are intimately interlinked and influencing one never fails to affect the other. If you suggest to the subconscious mind that the body is free of pain or disease it will actually bring about that change. This is the reason why thousands around the world have experienced hypnosis weight loss who never thought they could.
There is a vast deal of evidence to support the idea of hypnosis weight loss. Thanks to the power of hypnotic suggestioninnumerable women have made it through childbirth sans the pain and discomfort. It has helped manage the pain of chemotherapy in countless cancer patients. And many ex patients credit their recovery to hypnotherapy alone. The success of hypnotherapy is undeniable and finally doctors today agree that hypnosis weight loss works.
Many people do not believe in hypnosis weight loss. And there are so many others who do not even believe that hypnosis is real. However they do admit to having drifted off whilst thinking about a loved one forgetting large chunks of a car journey commonly known as highway hypnosis or “going somewhere far away” while reading a book. These are examples of natural trance states. Hypnosis weight loss is about as harmless and without any damaging side effects as any one of those.
Ex smokers and drug addicts have sworn by it. It has consistently helped solve marital problems and rectify criminal behavior. Hypnosis has also been used successfully where lie detector tests have failed! And thousands have benefited from hypnosis weight loss too.
Smoking drinking and overeating the leading cause of weight gain and obesity are bad habits caused by a malformed or wrong mindset. Proper counseling or even better hypnotherapy with the help of a trained hipnotherapist can help you to permanently change or erase such mindsets and help you change your life for good.
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How You Can Feel Younger Starting Today
Wish that you had the energy and vigor that you used to have 10 years ago? Well maybe you can
Who wouldn’t want to feel younger and full of energy? Well there may not be a fountain of youth but there are steps you can do to feel better and enjoy life more
Let’s start with the food you eat. Are you eating wholesome food packed with nutrients or fast food and processed food with empty calories?
The truth is that you are what you eat. At least this is partially true.
Okay most of us could exercise more. The trouble is there just doesn’t seem to be enough time. Besides it’s not much fun and who has the energy?
Well if you find something that you enjoy then you will want to do it more often. What is it that you enjoy?
Do you like sports? What about hiking? Whatever it is get out there and do it. Gardening walking or golfing.
You will find that once you start eating right and being more active that your energy will go up. You will feel better and feel better about yourself.
Be sure to include fresh fruit and vegetables in your diet for a real energy lift.
Even when we try to eat our best we may not get all the nutrients we need. That’s when a good supplement will come in handy. Look for a good quality supplement made from natural ingredients. Synthetic supplements can’t quite compete with a good wholesome one.
As we age we don’t absorb or produce some nutrients as well as we used to. You may want to have your doctor test for these and then you will know where you are lacking and correct it.
So remember. Eat the right food in the correct portions. Exercise by working out or do something that you enjoy and having fun. Consider supplements if you are missing nutrients in your diet.
Once you are in balance again you will be amazed at how well you feel and look. Your friends will wonder “What’s up with you?” They will notice something different even if they can’t put their finger on it.
More important though is that you will feel great! You will have more energy stamina and fun than you’ve had in quite a while. Also that food will taste so much better.
Hey! It’s not that hard really. Give it a try and see for yourself.
So you know what to do. Take action today and start looking and feeling better than ever.
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