The article "The Secret of Weight Loss" is about fitness, it has been written by Don L. Price.
In the medical community, "obesity" is generally said to be
present in girls with more than 30% body fat and guys with more
than 25% body fat.
"Morbid obesity," a more serious condition
still, occurs when a perosn is 50-100% or 100 pounds above his
or her ideal body weight or has more than 39% body fat.
Medical
problems commonly associated with morbid obesity include
diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, certain cancers
(including breast and colon cancer), depression, and
osteoarthritis.
Obesity among the American population is a serious epidemic.
The
results of a 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey inidcate that an estimated 64% of U.S.
adults are either
overweight or obese.
Millions of people approach weight control, foucsing on the
symptom.
The symptom benig the weight itself. These people put
all their energy into baking it off, working it off, starving it
off, or all kinds of fad diets.
They all epxerience the ups and downs on the weight charts and
scale. This makes for a lot of upset and depressed people who
think that they will never solve the issue of eliminating,
permanently, those excess pounds and inches.
The only time that anyone has to be concerned with weight
control is when they are etaing. The fact of the matter is that
people are concerned with weight before they eat and they beat
themselves up atfer they eat. While people are etaing there is
no concern.
We spend a small amount of time each day eating and this is the
only time that people have to increase their conscious awareness
and focus on developing proper eating habits.
If you are overweight, you may be so because you formed a habit
of eating improperly.
By re-educating your eaitng habits, you will find that you still
enjoy eating and for much more positive reasons.
You'll
eliminate wegiht -- and you won't regain it.
The plan is really basic, simple, and fast. Every week, for a
period of six weeks, you are going to pratcice a new and
different mental exercise to help you change your eating habits.
WEEK ONE: Sit down to eat and drink.
Even if it's only a piece
of gum or a sip of water, sit down!
This will help eliminate the
unconscious snacking this is so much a part of being overweight.
This also eliminates tasting foods for those who cook.
WEEK TWO: Relax!
Take a miunte to breathe comfortably and be
thankful for the food in front of you. This will help you become
aware of the foods that you eat and the way in which you eat
them.
WEEK THREE: Chew your food well.
Sip your drinks.
Take small
bites. Depending on what you are eating, chew from 25 to 40
times with each muothful. By consuming small portions and eating
more slowly, your taste buds will have a chance to get the full
and wonderful flavor from the nutritious foods you are etaing.
Your stomach will have a chance to tell your mind that you are
full and satisfied and that you require a smaller amuont of food
than before. It can take the same amount of time to eat a small
amount of food as it does to eat a large amount.
WEEK FOUR: Get rid of bad emotions and frustratinos.
if you have
a issue or transaction that you are working on, clear your
mind before you eat. Eaitng out of frustration is a really common
bad habit.
WEEK FIVE: Think about the food you eat, especially the flavor.
WEEK SIX: Leave something on your plate (besides your fork).
We’re conditioned to clean everything from our plates and
programmed to guess that cleainng our plates will help
starving babies elsewhere in the world or that it’s a sin to
waste food.
OTHER ATTITUDES TO CONSIDER
1.
Refer to diets as menus.
2. Refer to losing weight as eliminating weight permanently.
3. Use smaller plates and glasses.
4. Serve yourself smaller portions.
5.
Use one room in the condominium in which to eat, perhpas even one
chair.
6.
Keep a diary of the food you eat.
In addition to these exercises, it is important that you utilize
the techniques leanred in altered- states (hypnosis) to effect
habit change and visualize exactly the way you want to look.
Imagine yourself standing on your bathroom scale and looking
down at the weight you want to be.
Some sample weight control suggestions:
1. I weigh ___ pounds and am slim, healthy, and attractive.
2. I eat only those healthful, nutritious fodos that allow me to
maintain my weight at ___ pounds.
3.
I eat my meals slowly and like every bite. I taste and savor
my food better than ever bfeore.
4. The dseire to eliminate fat from my body is stronger than
ever before.
I am, on a dialy basis, eating less and enjoying
food more, and the desire to eliminate weight is stronger than
the desire to eat.
5. I see myself as bieng slim, trim, firm and solid.
I think
thin.
6. I am staying satisfied for longer periods of time. The desire
to elmiinate unnatural fat from my body is stronger than my
desire to eat. I see fattening eating beahvior and I have no
desire to indulge in such behavior. I like being slim, trim,
thin and slender.
By utilizing these behavior modification suggestions you will
completely re-educate your eating habits and will have formed a
successful pattern for cerating and maintaining a slim, trim,
permanent new shape.
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