Weight Loss - The Correct Mind Frame
Will power is always required, to some degree, to achieve any goal, and weight loss is no different. While it seems strange that your mind would fight you on something as important to your health as weight loss, it seems it does.
Why does this happen though? Why would your mind do this? Surely you should be supported by your own mind. I’ll try to explain.
The problem occurs because of our instinct for repetitive action. This is caused in nature due to an existing habit being considered as a survival tactic. If you always do something one way and are alive, then changing the plan involves risk.
It’s a natural animal self preservation technique but the problem is we don’t need it any more.
You may have noticed yourself how people tend to follow a pattern if there’s one present. Did you ever pay way too much attention to where you were placing your feet as a child? It’s the same thing, a repetitive routine action comforts us. And a change doesn’t.
It wasn’t long ago that the average age of a human was 40.
As far as your body is concerned it must be doing the right thing. This is where your higher functions need to kick in.
As an intelligent human being you know that being overweight is dangerous, but your body isn’t aware of it. You need to override basic instincts and fears and recognise them for what they are.
Obviously our current longevity owes nothing to obesity but how are our bodies supposed to know.
However, instinct is developed over hundreds of thousands of years, so you must be aware of the influence of outdated instinct at work within your own mind.
The point of all this is that now you know what’s going on inside your mind, you can fight back.
Anyone trying to lose weight is going to have physical challenges but once you realise what is going on you can take control.
Positive thinking and determination will be your friend. You will be surprised how effective they can be at altering the subconscious blocks that try to hold you back.
When you are trying to make a change as significant as weight loss, it often helps to make other changes as well. Make sure to try and change something significant in your life beside the weight loss, that you can mentally connect your efforts to.
It is actually easier to pick up a bad habit than to lose one, so try to pick up a habit that will cause you to lose weight. Go for a jog everyday and your mind will soon latch on to this repetitive habit. It’s just the way we work, so use it to your advantage.
This is probably a more important point than you realise. Your mind really does love repetitive tasks. It’s one of the reasons people have such trouble quitting smoking even though they can get nicotine replacement. The reason is habit dependency, so harness this power to your own advantage.
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Eat More And Lose Weight
I bet you read the name of this article and got excited. Well you should have. I’m going to explain some concepts to you that you may not have heard before. I think you will see this is an interesting approach.
Fist of all you have to remember that your body is that of an animal, and as such has certain built in responses. These responses are caused by millions of years of evolution, and are hard to work around if you don’t know what they are.
When you go on a diet and start eating less food certain things happen in your body that you may not be aware of. For instance as with any animal, when we suddenly eat less our body thinks we are experiencing a famine so it changes our metabolism. It does this to protect your reserves and to hoard as much fat as possible against an uncertain future. It also changes the amount of fuel you require by causing you to want to move around less.
These are not things conducive to helping you lose weight.
Your body will switch to a super fuel efficient machine that requires hardly any food to run and as a by-product, destroys your hope of losing weight.
It gets worse than this though, as you are about learn. When your body thinks it’s going to starve it also starts to cause you to experience an overwhelming desire to eat.
Remember your body thinks you’re in danger. Starvation has been a killer for humans since the dawn of our race, and as far as millions of years of instinct is concerned you need to go the extra mile to get food.
If you were living in a jungle this would be fine. You might be inspired to go somewhere you hadn’t been before in search of food, and possibly solve your problems. However you know this is no longer the situation.
Modern living unfortunately is unaware or unconcerned in what went into our evolution, and because of this often makes terrible mistakes. Unfortunately television plays an important role in our lives today, and mentioning our evolution, or the fact we are animals is not want people want to hear. This does not however change the fundamental truth that we are.
Do you realise that by eating foods you desire, you will reassure your body that there are no problems with obtaining food. You aren’t starving and everything is OK.
Once you have done this your body will start to run far less efficiently, and this means it stores less of the food as fat.
When reviewing this information you ought to realise that diets by their very essence are hindered by your nature. And as we know from multiple examples, if you set ourselves against nature, you set ourselves up for failure.
Don’t fight the way you own body works, use it to your own advantage. Your bodies metabolism triggers can help you lose weight without effort and pain if you only decide to pay attention to the way your made.
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