The Best Way to Lose Weight - It Helps To Know!
March 12, 2009 by Henry John
Filed under Weight Loss
If someone said weight is all in the mind, what would you say? Yes, the fact that you might be overweight or obese is all in the mind. Does that seem crazy to you? What on earth can it mean anyway? How can weight have anything to do with the mind? Surely it’s just about food and exercise? Or is it? How can the best way to lose weight have anything to do with the mind?
The brain was always thought to be all-powerful for years. The body was at its beck and call and did what it was told. We now know better. The brain and the body need each other. They share and swap information all the time. They work in a mutually supportive environment, both having our interests as their main and only priority.
Is the body intelligent? It’s an interesting question. It certainly is a fount of massive amounts of information which it uses and passes to the brain. Without this information we wouldn’t be able to function.
Here are some examples: When we don’t get enough sleep the body interprets this as an energy deficiency and releases a hormone from the stomach called ghrelin which prompts the brain to make us feel hungry.
What happens when we go on a diet is that we reduce our calorie intake too drastically, the body automatically stores all the energy it can because it believes that there might be a shortage of food. At the same time it sends a message to the brain to make us feel hungry so that we double our efforts to find food.
If we want to lose weight, it helps if we know why things happen. Losing weight successfully and permanently is all about habits. Habits are useful because they allow us to do things without thinking too much, which leaves the brain to get on with more important things. Over time we develop bad habits. To get rid of these bad habits we have to learn new habits, slim habits. When your eating and lifestyle habits are slim habits, your brain and your body will work together, free from the distortions of bad habits, and you will be able to lose weight permanently.
Skinny Is As Skinny Does!
March 12, 2009 by Henry John
Filed under Weight Loss
You do your best to keep to the diet because you are desperate to get skinny, but what happens? The weight comes back again. You are back where you started. It’s enough to make you lose your sense of humor! How on earth do you get skinny?
Choosing a diet to go on can be really confusing. Do you go with Atkins or some new fad diet? They all seem to promise the earth, but it’s very difficult to choose which one to go on. Choosing a diet is all about where you place your trust. Do you trust a diet to deliver? It’s a difficult call.
Too many diets make it look too easy. You can lose pounds in a trice, and you don’t have to lift a finger. It’s very convincing. It appeals to the lazy side of your nature. Do you follow your gut instinct or do you allow yourself to get hooked?
Do diets work? It would be wrong to say that you don’t lose weight on a diet, but there is a snag. The weight loss that the average diet delivers is short-term weight loss, all right if you want to lose a couple of pounds to get into your summer clothes, but not much good if you want get rid of some serious weight. There’s another catch too. The weight you lose will be back! It piles back on again very soon after you stop your diet. It’s not much fun!
The thing about losing weight and getting skinny is that you have got to want to make it happen. If your resolve is weak, than it won’t be successful. The other thing is that successful long-term weight loss only comes when you make change.
If you really want to get skinny, you have to make change and the only way to do that is to recognize what makes you fat. You need to uncover all your bad habits. Once you have done this, you need to learn new habits, slim habits. This is the key to making successful change. You want to be skinny and stay skinny? This is what you have to do!
