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Attracting Weight Loss
By karen | January 6, 2007
It is that season again. You know the one, every other advertisement you see is for a new diet plan, a deal on treadmills, 2 for 1 memberships at health clubs, six weeks free at your local weight loss clinic and on and on. January is the biggest month for dieting, exercise and weight loss tools and the industry itself is beyond a billion dollar industry. Many people are separated from their money in their attempts to lose weight.
Weight loss is a sensitive subject for many. And it is just that sensitivity that stops us and prevents us from reaching our weight loss and fitness goals.
I have studied the Law of Attraction for many years and I absolutely know that we are the creators of our own lives. Yet many of us, myself included, have created excess weight when what we really want is a lean, muscular and healthy body.
As I have pondered this I have come to realize that most of us are attracting exactly what we are thinking about. Many of us have made food an enemy instead of a wonderful friend that nourishes and strengthens our body and gives us energy. How many times have you heard someone or even said yourself “I can’t eat that it will go straight to my thighs” or something with the same gist. We tend to put food into categories or “good” or “bad” and then we feel guilty for eating the “bad” food and even for overindulging in the “good” food. Eating, which is something we all need to do, can often become mental torture.
Science and the media do not help in this matter. Anyone over age 10 or so has probably seen, heard and developed any number of ideas about how nutrition, exercise and body weight are related. Remember Susan Powter jumping around the TV with her baldhead and her buff body screaming that “Fat is the enemy”? And then there was the late Dr. Atkins claiming the “Carbs are the enemy”. Why are we thinking that food is an enemy at all?
There are people who can eat anything in any amount and never gain a pound. You know them. I know them. Then there are the people who seem to be able to gain weight just by inhaling the aromas. If you listen to these people you can see some very definite differences in the comments and thought patterns that set them apart from each other.
The thin people tend to eat however much they want without fret, worry, guilt or any other negative emotion. I have actually heard a few say
“I can eat whatever I want and I never gain a pound”.
While the heavier people tend to say just the opposite
“Oh, I shouldn’t eat this”
“I’ll have to work out longer tomorrow”
“The pounds just keep piling on”
“I just can’t find a diet that works for me”.
Pay attention. You will notice that the thoughts and words are distinctly different.
So rather than looking outside of ourselves for a sure-fire solution to our weight problems perhaps we should look at our practiced thoughts and words. It is much easier said than done however. Many of us have been programmed from an early age and from the media that weight and food is a problem. In my own life I realize that I was very young when someone unknowingly but with a loving intent reminded me that I needed to watch how much I ate or I might end up looking like my aunts. My family tends to be on the shorter, heavier side. It affected my very negatively. When I was a teenager I tended to starve rather than eat to avoid that plight of being fat like my aunts and even though I thankfully started eating again, as I got older it turned into a lifelong obsession of exercise, dieting, nutrition.
I know the calorie, fat and carb count of about every food. I know what is healthy and what is not. I know what to eat and when to eat and how often to eat according to the latest science of how to achieve a healthy body weight. I know the science. I’ve read the books and books and books.
But I’ve come to realize that the answer is not outside of me. The answer cannot be found in a book. My own practiced thoughts of being heavy, of being fearful of food; of believing I cannot stop my own genetic heritage is what is preventing me from achieving the body weight I want.
So I am going to practice deliberately creating the body I want by using my own creative force, the power of my thoughts. When I figure it out for sure I’ll let you know how it works out.
This article is included in the Carnival of Emotional Eating #1 January 2007 edition. There are some other very fine articles posted there also that may benefit your own thought process regarding weight loss. You can see them all at http://taliamana.blogspot.com/ There is also an incredibly appealing photo of chocolate—Don’t look!
I am very happy that this article was chosen from among many to be part of the #1 Fitness and Health Carnival located at www.realwomensfitness.com/
This article in included in the January 24, 2007 edition of A Very Public Diet located at MiddleAgeShed.
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January 24th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Dieting, getting fit, here are some great tips
Welcome to the January 24, 2007 edition of a very public diet!. Vahid Chaychi presents Low Carb Diets - Do They Really Work? posted at Healthoma.com. Karen Lynch presents Attracting Weight Loss posted at LivethePower. Kathy Maister presents Apple Picking
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
A mental diet. I like that idea.