Real Fat Loss

It’s not that we don’t know how to shed excess fat. After all, how hard is the equation of too much in equals too much on?
Of course, current understanding about weight loss goes well past the simple calorie counting of decades gone by. We know more now about weight-loss and health than we ever have before. So why is it so hard?

This article offers solutions for those who are battling long-term obesity as well as those wanting to shed a few kilograms. It is about weight-loss without the use of restrictive diets, drugs, stress or expensive programs.
Many overweight people feel a sense of powerlessness. It’s important to throw away anything from past approaches that has contributed to failure. If it didn’t work before it’s not likely to work now, and that includes berating yourself for ‘being weak and hopeless’. It’s critical that your approach to change is not punitive. Dieters are often good at punishing themselves as they stand on the scales, which don’t match their effort, and deny themselves permission to have anything that will taste nice.
Being overweight is not just health threatening; it can also bring with it alienation and considerable emotional pain. The feelings that can accompany that are sadness, despair, fear and confusion, resulting in low self-esteem and dissociation from self.
To make changes to your body you also need to take great care with your psyche. If you don’t learn about your needs, triggers and vulnerabilities, you risk heading for failure, as you stumble back into the psychological pain and discomfort that sent you to poor eating patterns in the first place.

Use gentle self care not control

The daily weight-loss experience must be livable. If weight-loss takes superhuman control, the risk is that when you relax you will revert to the old patterns. The reward for all that self denial so often includes the unconscious thought of ‘now I have lost the weight I can eat what I like’. And the failure ricochet begins.
Forced change can be traumatic. Real change maintains a balance that takes the whole person into account. This is why the mindset needs to be more like a readiness for weight-loss, with a willingness to care for yourself while you do. This is the main reason I would not go to a commercial weight loss company that requires handing over the care of self to someone else.