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| Weight Loss and Body Image How Thoughts and Emotions create our habits Binge eating and yo yo dieting - part 1 |
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High Calorie Emotions
Permanent weight loss is not just about Diet. If you are looking for the latest pill,
magic potion or perhaps some celebrity’s amazing secrets, then you’ve come to
the wrong place. However, at some point you will be back, because at some
point, you will realize that unless you address the cause and the truth about your
eating habits, you will end up on the merry-go-round again. There are many
products and services promising fantastic results. Some are good but most are
average. Usually they cost more than they are worth. Some are outright
dangerous. Losing weight is a simple matter of either decreasing calorie intake or
increasing energy output. Most people combine both to achieve fast results.
Many people have tried these methods often enough to know that they work.
My main aims are to address the many causes of weight gain and focus on the
creation of new habits in order to bring about permanent weight loss maintenance.
I once worked in a very innovative weight loss clinic. The programme focused on
nutrition, relaxation techniques, and psychology. I was a counsellor and worked
there for almost ten years. Although I was working as an expert, I think that I
learned more from my clients than I did from my textbooks. I counselled
thousands of people over the years and it became very obvious to me that they
all had a lot in common. Almost without exception, they all had an emotional
connection or response to food. Their eating habits had become an automatic
response. They all knew a lot about food and calories and they all knew how to
lose weight. They had all lost weight and regained it a number of times. This, we
referred to as the ‘yo-yo syndrome’.
If you happen to be one of the very few people who do not understand diet, I
will lightly touch on it to give you a crash course in weight loss.
An important thing to know about diet in relationship to losing weight is this:
There is no such thing as a fattening food
No food is either fattening or slimming. It’s this simple, food contains calories
and calories are units of energy. There are no fat calories or thin calories. 2000
cake calories are exactly the same as 2000 celery calories. Calories are burned
by the body to produce energy. Just being alive burns calories. However, the
more active the body - the bigger the burn. If you burn the same amount of
calories as you eat then your weight will remain the same. If you eat 3000
calories and burn 2000 then 1000 are stored as fat.
It’s the same as banking. If you put $100 in your account and only spend $80
then $20 is saved. If you did this for 10 weeks, $200 will be saved. Overweight
people do not necessarily eat a huge amount of food or a huge amount of ‘bad
food’, they simply consume more calories than they burn. The unused calories
are then stored in the body as fat. If you put too few calories in, the body will
burn the stored calories (fat) and use that for energy, thereby, creating weight
loss.
I am not going to go to any great length to discuss food or diet as I have found
that overweight people know as much as I do about food and calories. If you
wish to know more about food or nutrition there are many books available. One
point I do wish to make about food is this: vitamins, minerals, protein,
carbohydrate, fats, etc. are vital to maintaining health. Foods heal, build and
repair. Foods produce energy and well-being. You will not get fat from eating
cakes and drinking soda. However, if you are putting in calories that have little or
no nutritional content, you will become tired, depressed, unmotivated and
ultimately, very sick.
When you decide to use fat storage for energy you will lose weight. As in the
banking analogy above, put less in and use more, then you will burn up the
balance.
Let’s say your weight maintenance requires 2000 calories a day. If you decide to
put in 1000 a day, your body will then rob the fat stores of 1000. This is where
food choices are most important. Because you are reducing the calorie intake by
half, you need to be very diligent about getting the maximum amount of nutritional
benefit from the food that you eat.
Most diets emphasis fresh fruit, salads, grilled or boiled fish or chicken etc., not
because these foods are thinning, but because they have the most amount of food
value (nutrition) for the calories they contain.
Highly nutritious foods give you vitality and well-being. Low nutritional foods will
make you feel tired, grumpy, and unmotivated. (Making it more likely to binge
eat.)
Reducing calories will get you to your ideal weight. The purpose of this
information is not to motivate a diet. This is about looking at long-term habits and
changing them so that your future behaviour will become automatic, without
conscious thought or willpower. By following the guidelines below you will lose
weight, keep it off, and maintain health, vitality, and well-being.
Beyond Diet
Your weight can be about many things or a combination of many things.
Overeating may be part of the problem, but what is the cause of overeating?
Your reasons may be unique, but many of the common causes are:
Boredom
Depression
Fear
Tiredness
Loneliness
Tension, and
Being disorganized or too busy
Many facets are related to body image, self-esteem, and even sexual issues.
Eating Emotions
Some people find that they have an emotional attachment to food due to
childhood associations. If you were rewarded with sweets for good behaviour or
sent to your room without dinner for bad behaviour, you may very well be
treating food as a reward or a punishment. Your eating habits may have become
confused with approval or disapproval.
If your family was poor you may equate food with being prosperous or
successful.
For many people, the stomach area is the emotional centre of the body. Stress,
worry, fear and unhappiness will create tightness there. Often overeating is an
automatic response to releasing this tension.
Observe yourself for a few weeks and you will probably notice how common It
is for you to push food down into the tightness of your stomach area when you
are stressed.
You may find that you use food to release and stretch the area - this is
particularly obvious in a binge eating session.
Food can nurture and food can provide comfort. By detached observation, you
will learn a lot about yourself and your eating habits. Watch yourself without
judging yourself for a few weeks and you may be amazed at how often you are
feeding your emotions.
By understanding your eating behaviour you will be in a better position to bring
about permanent changes and lose weight without great effort.
There are some basic principles that need to be addressed and explored if you
sincerely wish to lose weight and keep it off.
Protection
Some people feel safer or stronger by being bigger and may panic or feel
insecure when they have lost weight. Sometimes weight can be thought of as
being ‘big’. If you have a history of being bullied or made to feel small in some
way you may use your weight as a way of feeling bigger, stronger or in someway
more protected.
Sexuality
Being overweight can often be used to repress sexuality. Teenage girls often find
sexual advances intimidating and they may sub-consciously put on weight as a
barrier to them, which continues throughout life.
If your sex life is unsatisfying, you may use your weight as a turn off. Maybe you
are so self-conscious about your weight that you deny yourself your sexuality.
Some women who have experienced sexual abuse will use their weight as a
sexual defence or as personal armour.
You may on a very logical level desire a thinner body. However, sub-consciously
you may feel that being too attractive projects the wrong image or gives out the
wrong signals. If you are a wife and mother, you may feel that your body image
should not suggest you are a single or available woman. Sometimes, being a wife
and mother creates conflict with being sexually attractive to other men. Maybe
being a good mother requires a motherly look?
Perfectionism
Binge eating is usually about punishment. This is very common in high achievers.
(Anorexics and Bulimics are often in this category as well.) Binging is usually
about trying to get it perfect and then destroying all effort if there is a slight slip
up. This is the ‘all or nothing approach’.
Binge eating is also very common with Pre-Menstrual-Syndrome
Pre-Menstrual Syndrome can cause women to be emotionally fragile. Their
thinking can be fuzzy. Their body may retain fluid, meaning that they feel fatter or
bloated. There is discomfort in the stomach area and sugar cravings are
common. If you are serious about long-term weight maintenance you must be
prepared for these things. You must plan alternative actions; like being kind to
yourself, more flexible, self-loving and forgiving. Keep a calendar and be
prepared before you hit crisis point.
Ah! ‘That time of the month’ can create the monster that some women become
and they may go through hell at this time. You must tune-in to your body and get
to know the signs. Some women have a little discomfort for only a day or two
before a period. For many women, it can bring about a week or more of
emotional chaos as well as pain.
Click Next button to go to Part 2 and 3
Permanent weight loss is not just about Diet. If you are looking for the latest pill,
magic potion or perhaps some celebrity’s amazing secrets, then you’ve come to
the wrong place. However, at some point you will be back, because at some
point, you will realize that unless you address the cause and the truth about your
eating habits, you will end up on the merry-go-round again. There are many
products and services promising fantastic results. Some are good but most are
average. Usually they cost more than they are worth. Some are outright
dangerous. Losing weight is a simple matter of either decreasing calorie intake or
increasing energy output. Most people combine both to achieve fast results.
Many people have tried these methods often enough to know that they work.
My main aims are to address the many causes of weight gain and focus on the
creation of new habits in order to bring about permanent weight loss maintenance.
I once worked in a very innovative weight loss clinic. The programme focused on
nutrition, relaxation techniques, and psychology. I was a counsellor and worked
there for almost ten years. Although I was working as an expert, I think that I
learned more from my clients than I did from my textbooks. I counselled
thousands of people over the years and it became very obvious to me that they
all had a lot in common. Almost without exception, they all had an emotional
connection or response to food. Their eating habits had become an automatic
response. They all knew a lot about food and calories and they all knew how to
lose weight. They had all lost weight and regained it a number of times. This, we
referred to as the ‘yo-yo syndrome’.
If you happen to be one of the very few people who do not understand diet, I
will lightly touch on it to give you a crash course in weight loss.
An important thing to know about diet in relationship to losing weight is this:
There is no such thing as a fattening food
No food is either fattening or slimming. It’s this simple, food contains calories
and calories are units of energy. There are no fat calories or thin calories. 2000
cake calories are exactly the same as 2000 celery calories. Calories are burned
by the body to produce energy. Just being alive burns calories. However, the
more active the body - the bigger the burn. If you burn the same amount of
calories as you eat then your weight will remain the same. If you eat 3000
calories and burn 2000 then 1000 are stored as fat.
It’s the same as banking. If you put $100 in your account and only spend $80
then $20 is saved. If you did this for 10 weeks, $200 will be saved. Overweight
people do not necessarily eat a huge amount of food or a huge amount of ‘bad
food’, they simply consume more calories than they burn. The unused calories
are then stored in the body as fat. If you put too few calories in, the body will
burn the stored calories (fat) and use that for energy, thereby, creating weight
loss.
I am not going to go to any great length to discuss food or diet as I have found
that overweight people know as much as I do about food and calories. If you
wish to know more about food or nutrition there are many books available. One
point I do wish to make about food is this: vitamins, minerals, protein,
carbohydrate, fats, etc. are vital to maintaining health. Foods heal, build and
repair. Foods produce energy and well-being. You will not get fat from eating
cakes and drinking soda. However, if you are putting in calories that have little or
no nutritional content, you will become tired, depressed, unmotivated and
ultimately, very sick.
When you decide to use fat storage for energy you will lose weight. As in the
banking analogy above, put less in and use more, then you will burn up the
balance.
Let’s say your weight maintenance requires 2000 calories a day. If you decide to
put in 1000 a day, your body will then rob the fat stores of 1000. This is where
food choices are most important. Because you are reducing the calorie intake by
half, you need to be very diligent about getting the maximum amount of nutritional
benefit from the food that you eat.
Most diets emphasis fresh fruit, salads, grilled or boiled fish or chicken etc., not
because these foods are thinning, but because they have the most amount of food
value (nutrition) for the calories they contain.
Highly nutritious foods give you vitality and well-being. Low nutritional foods will
make you feel tired, grumpy, and unmotivated. (Making it more likely to binge
eat.)
Reducing calories will get you to your ideal weight. The purpose of this
information is not to motivate a diet. This is about looking at long-term habits and
changing them so that your future behaviour will become automatic, without
conscious thought or willpower. By following the guidelines below you will lose
weight, keep it off, and maintain health, vitality, and well-being.
Beyond Diet
Your weight can be about many things or a combination of many things.
Overeating may be part of the problem, but what is the cause of overeating?
Your reasons may be unique, but many of the common causes are:
Boredom
Depression
Fear
Tiredness
Loneliness
Tension, and
Being disorganized or too busy
Many facets are related to body image, self-esteem, and even sexual issues.
Eating Emotions
Some people find that they have an emotional attachment to food due to
childhood associations. If you were rewarded with sweets for good behaviour or
sent to your room without dinner for bad behaviour, you may very well be
treating food as a reward or a punishment. Your eating habits may have become
confused with approval or disapproval.
If your family was poor you may equate food with being prosperous or
successful.
For many people, the stomach area is the emotional centre of the body. Stress,
worry, fear and unhappiness will create tightness there. Often overeating is an
automatic response to releasing this tension.
Observe yourself for a few weeks and you will probably notice how common It
is for you to push food down into the tightness of your stomach area when you
are stressed.
You may find that you use food to release and stretch the area - this is
particularly obvious in a binge eating session.
Food can nurture and food can provide comfort. By detached observation, you
will learn a lot about yourself and your eating habits. Watch yourself without
judging yourself for a few weeks and you may be amazed at how often you are
feeding your emotions.
By understanding your eating behaviour you will be in a better position to bring
about permanent changes and lose weight without great effort.
There are some basic principles that need to be addressed and explored if you
sincerely wish to lose weight and keep it off.
Protection
Some people feel safer or stronger by being bigger and may panic or feel
insecure when they have lost weight. Sometimes weight can be thought of as
being ‘big’. If you have a history of being bullied or made to feel small in some
way you may use your weight as a way of feeling bigger, stronger or in someway
more protected.
Sexuality
Being overweight can often be used to repress sexuality. Teenage girls often find
sexual advances intimidating and they may sub-consciously put on weight as a
barrier to them, which continues throughout life.
If your sex life is unsatisfying, you may use your weight as a turn off. Maybe you
are so self-conscious about your weight that you deny yourself your sexuality.
Some women who have experienced sexual abuse will use their weight as a
sexual defence or as personal armour.
You may on a very logical level desire a thinner body. However, sub-consciously
you may feel that being too attractive projects the wrong image or gives out the
wrong signals. If you are a wife and mother, you may feel that your body image
should not suggest you are a single or available woman. Sometimes, being a wife
and mother creates conflict with being sexually attractive to other men. Maybe
being a good mother requires a motherly look?
Perfectionism
Binge eating is usually about punishment. This is very common in high achievers.
(Anorexics and Bulimics are often in this category as well.) Binging is usually
about trying to get it perfect and then destroying all effort if there is a slight slip
up. This is the ‘all or nothing approach’.
Binge eating is also very common with Pre-Menstrual-Syndrome
Pre-Menstrual Syndrome can cause women to be emotionally fragile. Their
thinking can be fuzzy. Their body may retain fluid, meaning that they feel fatter or
bloated. There is discomfort in the stomach area and sugar cravings are
common. If you are serious about long-term weight maintenance you must be
prepared for these things. You must plan alternative actions; like being kind to
yourself, more flexible, self-loving and forgiving. Keep a calendar and be
prepared before you hit crisis point.
Ah! ‘That time of the month’ can create the monster that some women become
and they may go through hell at this time. You must tune-in to your body and get
to know the signs. Some women have a little discomfort for only a day or two
before a period. For many women, it can bring about a week or more of
emotional chaos as well as pain.
Click Next button to go to Part 2 and 3
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about food and
weight right Now!
Let go of your
emotional and
psychological
food issues
forever.
No Willpower
No Pain and
No Hunger!
Increase Vitality,
Self-Confidence
and Joyfulness
while losing
weight.
This is Fast,
Easy, Pleasant
and Permanent.
Click the CD cover above
for full details