There is no greater disaster
than greed.
(Lao Tzu)
Weight
Weighing yourself is a completely fruitless exercise.
Your weight is irrelevant. Fat is what matters.
Muscle weighs more than fat, so weight is not a reliable way to determine
your fat level.
To gauge fat, look in the mirror or explore your body with your hands.
If you have pouches of fat throughout your body, they will be quite easy to
locate.
Fat is unhealthy. It represents stored food and is a redundancy that
adversely affects your health.
Do not be concerned about media representations of a healthy body. They are
an illusion.
A skinny person is not necessarily a healthy one. They may be anorexic or
metabolically fast.
Use your own judgement but do not
lie.
Are you flabby?
Do your have pouches of fat?
Be
honest with yourself.
Fat or obese?
Heart disease, diabetes and other life threatening conditions can arise when
you ignore your body fat.
It is quite scary and sad to think that the Western world is becoming fatter
and fatter, whilst many so-called 'developing' countries still struggle to
maintain a
basic standard of living.
A fat person has eaten more than they need to. They have exceeded their
body's requirement.
Considering shedding this surplus and changing how you eat.
Losing fat
Fat accumulates in the body over many months and years.
Losing excess fat is a slow process.
You must be prepared to look at it in terms of months and years if
you desire a healthy, lasting effect.
Sudden fat loss is foolish.
The body has no time to adjust and your skin will hang in slack folds around
your body.
The underlying psychological habits that result in fat will not change
overnight.
It is a slow arduous journey of careful, considered eating and patience.
Do not expect a miracle.
Remember how long you invested in getting fat? Allow your body the time to
shed the excess sensibly.
Food
Exercise will assist in fat loss, but food should be your main concern.
There is no point doing a lot of exercise when the source of your fat is
unchanged.
Consider what you eat.
Losing fat should be a by-product of healthy eating, rather than a goal
in itself.
If you eat a balanced, healthy
diet
and avoid sugar, processed food, additives, colouring, junk food,
desserts, alcohol and caffeine - your fat level will steadily fall.
The aim should be to intake nourishing food that improves your health and
wellbeing, rather than ego-food designed to coddle your depression, apathy
and boredom.
Regular
Eating small regular meals is a healthy
way to start your fat loss campaign.
Instead of reaching for a chocolate bar, try a banana or a slice of soya &
linseed bread with some honey.
Instead of 3 meals per day, eat 6 or 7.
Make them small and satisfying.
If you consider what you eat, much of it is simply habit.
Habits can be changed.
Ask yourself what you really want - a chocolate brownie or a leaner
body?
Be honest.
Endure
Losing fat will not be easy.
Your body is chemically addicted to unwholesome food and your palate is
unaccustomed to subtle flavours.
It will be an arduous test of
character and endurance. If it was easy, the world would not be
slowly filling with fat people.
Think of it as an investment in your future.
The work you undertake now may add years of quality life to your existence
and keep you out of hospital.
If you want to lose weight badly enough, you will.
"Like me for who I am"
People in modern culture are very defensive.
They take
exception to everything and over-react without realising it.
Emotions are
attached to the most trivial of things. People are very quick to anger.
Consider 'being fat' as a topic.
If you are carrying around excess fat, it is a factual situation.
Your body has pouches of fat dispersed around it.
There is no denying the
existence of the fat. It is there for everyone to see.
Yet, people who are fat are often too lazy to do something about it.
The fat
person knows they are fat and they know that being fat is unhealthy.
The
urge to act is weak. Apathy is strong. Self-discipline is poor.
As a
consequence, being fat becomes an emotional situation.
Rather than remain
scientific and factual, the fat person becomes irrational and defensive.
They pretend that being fat is ok.
They see the excess fat as being part of who they are. An outer
manifestation of an inner self.
In a way they are correct, however, the fat is not who you are. It is
what you have allowed.
Who you are is one thing. Excess body fat is
something else entirely.
Seeing the truth in every situation is very important.
Looking at the heart
of the matter, the core, the essence. Until you can see what is, there is no
scope for understanding or change.
Page created 8 January 2006