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Obesity - Part 2
Question: Is there a lot of hot air talked about weight loss?
Answer: Yes.
Search on the Internet for "weight loss" and you come up with any number of "remedies" - often in a single capsule
or tablet - which promise success.
This belies the fact that being overweight is often - probably usually - a very complex situation.
Physical and Emotional Causes
It is complex because there are
usually a combination of factors involved - physical and mental/emotional.
The emotional factors mean that when you find it difficult to lose weight, you may start punishing or hating
yourself.
If you do this, you are really piling on the emotional pressure. You can just end up making yourself feel more and
more guilty. That is just no good at all!
Be Kind To Yourself
The answer to this is to go easy on yourself. Keep
reminding yourself that you are doing the best you can in the circumstances in which you find yourself.
Criticise yourself and you'll just make it harder to get to the point where you can lose weight.
To help yourself when you notice you are criticising yourself for not being successful...
...DON'T JUDGE YOURSELF one way or the other. In other words, don't decide you are right or wrong. That does no
good at all. And it simply holds you back from being successful.
Simply step back mentally - this gets you away from your emotions - and say to yourself; "Ah yes - I'm criticising
myself". Just being aware of what you are doing is the most useful thing you can do.
Observe Your Thoughts
Over time, this simple practice of being aware of your thoughts will be very helpful to
you.
Accept that your "bad" habits are perfectly OK.
At the same time, you may choose to head towards changing some of them. That's OK too!
"This is a healthier attitude than "What a terrible person I am for not being able instantly to change that bad
habit."
Just get away from criticism and thoughts of failure. You'll still have some of those thoughts, but just step back
and observe them from a distance - as if they were someone else's thoughts. Just practice - it'll soon become
habit.
Be Happy
There can always be something you want to change about
yourself. If you keep criticising yourself for not being perfect - then you will never be happy for all your life!
That just cannot
be right!
So learn to accept yourself as an imperfect being, trying their best. And if something doesn't work... try
something else!!
Weight Loss 3-Step Plan
Here's a 3-step plan which may help you with losing
weight.
- Firstly, if you have
underlying health issues - you need to See a Practitioner in
Alternative Healthcare to get yourself sorted.
See a doctor too, certainly; but remember you don't have to do what they
say. Listen to their advice, certainly; but don't be pushed into anything you
don't want.
It is your life and your health - take what the doctor says, see an alternative
practitioner, and then *you* decide what you are going to do for your
health.
- Decide To Get
Healthy.
Commit yourself to
being healthy and happy. And part of that just happens to involve... -
being lighter than you are right now!
Focus on what you want for your health in general, rather than on losing
weight. Trust that you will lose weight as you sort out your general
health.
For your general health, my first recommendation is:
i) Colon Cleansing
This often seems to help so many people, that it
is a good cleanse to start with. I recommend a 3 month Colon Cleansing
Programme.
Secondly, I recommend:
ii) Liver Cleansing
Again, many people appear to benefit from this
cleansing. It does help to ensure that the Liver works well, and that benefits
the whole body.
These two cleanses will be a great start for future good health.
- Your Diet - What You
Eat
For most overweight
people, diet is key.
There are many different dietary approaches. You have to find one which suits
you.
Reducing calories is one approach which works for some. The "Weight Watchers"
method uses this approach, for example, combined with psychological and
emotional support from other overweight people.
Others find this approach does not suit them. And it is true that the body may
adjust its metabolism after a while so that the amount of weight lost
reduces.
There are other dietary approaches which often produce weight loss as a
beneficial side-effect of changing your lifestyle. Here are some examples of
these approaches to improving health. Try out one which appeals to you.
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Improve Your Lifestyle - And Lose Weight
Here
is some general information on naturopathic diet:
www.specialist-herbal.com/html/2__dietary_guidelines.html
And here are some examples of the dietary approaches mentioned above, which often help people to lose weight - and,
more importantly, keep it off.
- The Rotation Diet by
Martin Katahn. This is a diet which starts from the principle that if you
reduce your calories, you initially lose weight, then the body lowers its
metabolic rate to compensate for the lower amount of food being eaten,
and the weight loss stops.
The Rotation Diet fools your body by first putting you on a low calorie diet
for long enough to lose weight. Then, before the body can adjust its metabolic
rate, you change to moderate-calorie diet for a short time, then to a normal
diet. The 'cycle' takes - from memory - either 3 or 6 weeks.
You can get the book from Amazon, and if you read the online users' reviews
there, you will find that most are complimentary.
- Food Combining"
Diets. By changing your diet, weight is often lost. One reason is that
the diet can make you think more about what you are eating. You may then
tend to make healthier decisions about your food.
Food Combining is a way of eating where you make it easier for your digestion
by avoiding eating starches and protein at the same meal. So - no egg on toast;
no bangers and mash. Basically, you have all fruit or all salad or vegetables
at a meal; or you have either starch (eg baked potato) *or* protein
(chicken, or cheese) with salad, vegetables, or both.
- The Hay Diet by
Jackie Habgood
- The Biogenic Food
Combining Diet by Leslie Kenton
- The Beverley Hills
Diet by Judy Mazel
- Fit For Life by
Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
The last three have recipe books associated with them.
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Other Ideas To Help You To Lose
Weight
For most people, losing weight is simply a matter of eating less of the food which puts weight on.
(I know there are a few exceptional people who eat little, but still manage to put weight on - but this is a
very small proportion.)
How you manage to eat less depends on what works for you. Some ideas are:
- Keep fruit near to
you at all times - and eat it, of course!
- Give up tea and
coffee, which are debilitating. Instead, drink
at least 1 litre (2 pints) of water a day. Keep fruit juice (no added sugar)
nearby at all times.
- Change some other
habits as well as your eating habits. Walk more; or get a dog! Give up
snacking, or snack on fruit.
- Do a vegetarian or
"healthy eating" cookery course; or invest in some gourmet vegetarian
cookery books - and focus on the recipes without tons of cheese.
- If your weight goes
up and down from month to month, weigh yourself every week. Then, the
instant you go over a weight you have decided upon, immediately do
whatever is necessary to get back down to the weight you want.
Then... relax again, and keep weighing yourself weekly!
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Resources
An overview of overweight and obesity
can be found at:
www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/OBESITY/
OBESITY.html
A useful source of books; examination of fads; recipes; eating disorders...
weightloss.about.com/health/weightloss/
dietinfo.com
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2 Recommended Detox Methods
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This programme consists of unique herbal products for the three main detox organs: the Colon, the Liver and
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