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Eliminate stress eating to lose weight
requires self love among other
characteristics. The concept of an
overweight person loving oneself is an alien
concept and is sure to confuse. Why? It is
simply because those suffering from being
overweight have learned to "Hate" their
overweight condition and their overweight
bodies. They use the hate to justify the
diet, yet long term the diet doesn't work as
95% of those who lose weight gain it all
back.
Total success in losing weight and managing
one's eating habits requires love of self.
Yes, love of that spare tire around the
tummy. Without self love it's practically
impossible to master emotional eating.
The fear though is that if one loves his/her
spare tire, then he/she won't do anything to
get rid of it. The inability to resolve this
dichotomy keeps millions overweight.
Why love? Look at those excess pounds as a
child crying for help. And this isn't so far
from reality for it's the child within each
of us that gains the weight. The parent in
us would keep us underweight, but the child
indulges.
A lot is to be learned about the child from
where the weight is stored on one's body. A
child that lacks courage to deal with life's
challenges will store weight in the stomach
and abdominal area. Rather than get upset
with the child, the best way to deal with a
child is to nurture. So if you retain your
weight in the midsection, it's more
appropriate to look at your life situations
where you are short on courage, acknowledge
this as you goal (gain more courage in
dealing with __________) and send love to
your child and you now have the key to
losing weight in your stomach region.
The child who stores weight in one's legs
has a direction problem in life. Taking
steps to achieve a goal/s is the issue,
whether it be steps to end a relationship or
steps to start a new career.
The child who stores weight in one's
buttocks has a support issue--for instance,
it could be a fear of asking others for
support. They may feel that they are very
much alone in this life.
The child who stores weight in the chest
area has a compassion issue. This is the
heart center and weight here blocks one's
ability to experience compassion. And often
it's compassion for self in that they are
more demanding of themselves than they are
of others.
The child who stores weight in the arms has
an issue with reaching for and grasping what
they want in life.
The child who stores weight in the neck area
has an issue with flexibility of direction.
It's like they have blinders on and can only
look in one direction.
The child who stores weight in the facial
area has communication issues with others.
If you get the gist of this, you will be far
better off nurturing the child in building
confidence, flexibility, compassion, stamina
(oh that's the back area), support,
options... than you will be with using self
putdowns.
Send an ounce of love to those excess pounds
and it will dissolve ten pounds. Do this and
you'll be ready to embrace the emotions that
contribute to the fears of being flexible,
confident, compassionate, asking for
support...
A progressive approach to eliminate stress
eating involves asking important questions
"What is missing here? Why are you not
getting the results you've been promised?"
It is clearly insane to keep dieting and
using techniques to deal with change eating
habit when the results are so poor. It's
more important to gain a grasp on how to
love oneself--every pound of oneself than it
is to read the scale. Besides focusing on
the scale doesn't empower you to be a better
more enlightened person, whereas learning
how to overcome emotional eating empowers
you in all aspects of your life. If you're a
sales person, you'll be a better sales
person. If you're an assembly line worker,
you'll be a better assembly line worker; a
mother, a better mother... Overall, you'll
build self worth and find that what you
really want to eat is far more nutritious
and less in quantity than you ever before
imagined possible.
Most people who are overweight learn to hate
their overweight bodies. They hate every
pound that hangs on their body. Even though
this hate may motivate them to diet, it does
not foster the same success in losing weight
that loving the excess pounds does.
Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified, a
prominent figure in the field of hypnosis
with his best selling hypnosis and stress
management cds at
www.DStressDoc.com
and
www.PanicBusters.com.
His aim is to make it possible for anyone to
manage emotional binge eating. For more
information please visit
www.dstressdoc.com/BingeEatingEbook.htm
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