What Are You 'Weighting' For?
What Are You 'Weighting' For?
What Are You 'Weighting' For?
In last week's feature article (Why Are You Holding On To Your Weight?) we explored how things that happened in your past can have a huge impact on your ability to lose weight. Often experiences from our childhood give us a reason for putting on weight at the time, which we then hold onto for the rest of our lives.
Unsurprisingly, however, the present can often have a major impact on our ability to lose weight as well.
Feeling Stuck?
Research has proven that one of the top emotional triggers for eating is when we feel stuck; when we can't see a way out for ourselves and hence feel that we can't move forward in our lives. More often that not, we also feel the reason we are stuck is out of our control, which makes it even more frustrating.
Do Any Of These Sound Familiar?
"I can't do that until..
...the children are a bit older"
...the kids have left home"
...x leaves the company"
...I get a pay rise"
...they give me voluntary redundancy"
...I've paid off the mortgage"
...my mother/father gets better"
...we retire"
Do you see a pattern emerging here? They are all events we can't personally control or can't personally make happen. They all involve other people or the passage of time. Quite handy really!
Another really common one is:-
"I can't do that until I lose some weight"
Now, whilst in reality, this is totally in our control, people who've been battling withweight all their lives certainly don't feel that way. Moreover, because so much of our behaviour is driven at a sub-conscious level, then the sense that it's out of our control really isn't that surprising.
Reasons or Excuses?
The fact is, however, that more often than not all these examples are just great excuses not to make changes in our lives. The prospect of change can be really frightening. We might look longingly over the fence and be utterly convinced that the grass is greener on the other side, but we still haven't got the courage to jump over it.
This can begin as a minor irritation but ultimately it leads to enormous frustration, disappointment in our lives, a lack of respect for ourselves, resentment of others and many more negative emotions. Every one of these generates masses of negative energy - junk food's greatest friend.
When you are sapped of energy; when you are feeling low; when you are feeling negative; what do you crave? SUGAR! A rapid pick-me-up that will result in just as rapid a crash-me-down. But we still do it anyway!
'Weight' No Longer!
So, explore where you feel stuck in your life; determine who and what you are weighting' for and then make the decision that you will wait no longer. You can make the changes you want to make in your life. You may need to take small steps initially, but any action is better than none. So long as you are moving things forward in your life; so long as you feel you are taking back control, you will have bags of positive energy propelling you towards your goal and you won't be weighting' any longer.
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