7 Best Kept Secrets of Weight Loss

7 Best Kept Secrets of Weight Loss

Awareness is far more important to weight loss than diet or exercise. Most people are unconscious when they eat and everyone is unconscious when overeating. Practicing and increasing awareness before and durin 14414n1320o g food consumption will have a dramatic effect on what and how much you eat.

Most people who are chronically 25 or more pounds overweight are food addicts. Understanding your eating patterns as addiction instead of problems with self-discipline or will power will redirect you towards more productive solutions.

Food addiction is more difficult to manage and/or recover from than drug or alcohol addiction. You can survive without alcohol or heroin but you must eat everyday. You cannot abstain from food. Food addiction is the only addiction that must be managed by limited contact with the addictive substance.

Lack of self-esteem is a major factor in food addiction and sustained weight loss is almost impossible without it. Low self-esteem causes many painful and often unmanageable emotions. Food addicts eat to kill these emotions. Self-love releases the addict from the destructive emotional cycle that causes overeating. Even great diets are doomed to fail if they do not include attention to self-esteem and self-love.

Spirituality is often a significant factor in weight gain and can be just as important in sustained weight loss. Spirituality (a relationship with Divine Power) is natural and necessary to the human condition. Spiritual deprivation is often confused with hunger and causes the dieter to substitute food for spirituality.

Every dieter will ultimately fail the sustained weight loss test, unless she/he learns to identify and manage the inner causes of overeating. Anyone who wants to change anything in their lives must pay attention to this reality and its messages and guidance. Individuals and diet programs that ignore this fact will be consistently frustrated in their weight loss attempts. However, the good news is that those who pay attention will be highly successful and will tend to sustain weight loss over greater periods of time.

Everyone can lose weight. If you do the work, you will reap the rewards. This one is not really a secret but it is worth thinking about. Losing weight is a hard, life-long task. Feeling hopeful is important. The truth is you can do it if you do the work. I invite you to join me and thousands of others on the weight loss journey. It has more rewards than you can imagine.

If you have read this far you are aware that these weight loss secrets are tough. You may be tempted to go for the fad diet, jazzy exercise, or magic pill that offers you a quick and easy solution. But in your heart you know that those programs are mostly half-truths and some are blatant lies. You are better off with a plan or a guide that tells you the truth. This will make you stronger and more successful. Go for it!