Mental Blocks To Weightloss

Many people hold one or more mental blocks to weightloss that prevent them from losing weight.

They say they want to lose weight, but they have a long list of reasons why they won't do what it takes. For some, the truth is they don't really want to lose the weight.

Each of the mental blocks to weightloss may serve some purpose, psychologically: perhaps as a crutch or a defense mechanism. Adopting a healthy diet plan might force them to re-evaluate who they really are.

What has not sunk in to their awareness is the damage they are doing to their body every day they hold onto the negative habits that have caused their weight gain.

They have not realized that they are wasting precious TIME living at less than their capacity. And -- being young -- they may not realize that the years slide by silently, quickly, and it becomes more difficult to change one's metabolism the longer one waits.

Now, I am not a trained psychologist, but am merely a wide-eyed observer of human behavior(including my own) and thought patterns. I would argue that this might be an asset in seeing mental blocks to weightloss that professionals are overlooking. You be the judge.

Here are some mental blocks that prevent people from making the changes that lead to permanent weightloss:

* Many women use obesity as a way to avoid sexual intimacy with men -- or even men's attention. They inflict increasing health problems on themselves in the process of discouraging men's sexual interest in them. (Is this a two-way street, guys?)

* In the United States, where I live, we have become a very secular society. There is little attention to ancient religious teachings that warn against "gluttony" and sloth(laziness, inactivity). All the social cues we receive -- and many of these come from advertising for fattening foods -- encourage us to try and enjoy it all. There is no -- or little -- awareness of the sacred miracle of a healthy, well-functioning human body and our responsibility for taking care of it that exists in other cultures and among the most enlightened members of society.

* Of all the mental blocks to weightloss, the most impervious is the belief that it is just our "fate" to be fat. In modern terms, we say it is due to genetics and we can't change that. Wrong! It is how we feed ourselves, our level of exercise, and our stress levels that control the expression of our genetic code.

* What many people don't see is that, if we are not actively maintaining control over our diet and getting enough daily exercise , those who eat the Standard American Diet are slowly becoming fatter. It happens so slowly that most people, distracted by the urgent demands of daily life, neglect their health and then wake up one day to find they have developed some serious health challenges along with a much larger body weight. I call this the "Boiled Frog Syndrome".

Weight gain is only the outward manifestation of an unnatural diet and/or not enough exercise to burn off the excess calories. It is not just a matter of appearance, but it is a symptom of negative physiological changes taking place inside our skin.

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Obesity is considered the second most important health risk, after smoking, so there is good reason to nip it in the bud.

* The last mental block is the popular misconception that our health is someone else's responsibility. We may think our doctor knows something about weight control and diet, but doctors receive very little, if any, training in human nutrition. What doctors are taught in medical school and in their "continuing medical education" courses is how to prescribe pharmaceutical drugs, how to order tests, and how to refer patients for surgery.

Waiting for our doctor to tell us to eat better and get more exercise is foolish.

Doctors would go broke if they made it their business to tell you how you should eat, if they even knew. Most medical doctors are, at best, believers in the type of middle-of-the-road dietary guidelines dispensed by such commercially-motivated sources as WebMD.com, the US Department of Agriculture, and other advocates of a "balanced healthy diet" composed of the foods that have made most Americans so fat.

Sadly, the packaged food industry, the health care industry, and the pharmaceutical industry all have a financial interest in us keeping our mental blocks to weightloss.

You see, there is a lot of money to be made by selling Americans -- and the rest of the world -- on consuming mass quantities of cheap, factory-produced, unhealthy foods made of USDA subsidized ingredients. With some of that money, the processed food industry can hire a lot of lobbyists, can influence the media, doctors, and the public about the standards of a healthy diet.

With billions to spend, the packaged food industry can create a Matrix of lies to lead us to believe that our food is safe and healthful. But why are we so sick and fat, when we spend so much on medical care and diets that never address the real problem?

The key to escaping the Matrix of lies is to systematically rid ourselves of our mental blocks to weightloss.

So, even the people we trust to watch out for our health, have been co-opted and put on the payroll of the food and pharmaceutical industries in subtle ways. Recent examples are Coca Cola's sponsorship, if you can call it that, of the American Dietetic Association and McDonald's being endorsed as a place to get healthy meals by Weight-Watchers.

It's hard to turn down money, isn't it?

Here's the ultimate reason why we would be wise to discard our mental blocks to weightloss: We are the ones who have the most to gain by getting our weight down and our energy up.

We also have the most to lose by spending a long life overweight, never really being our best, and then sliding slowly into disease, incapacity, and death.

At birth, most of us were given a healthy, beautiful body -- one that would cost perhaps a hundred million dollars if science were able to make it. To spend a lifetime feeding it junk food and neglecting to maintain it with healthy outdoor exercise is just plain stupid.

I refuse to let the packaged food industry enrich itself by selling me food that any careful student of diet knows is unfit to feed to pigs. And I refuse to let our corrupt medical industry drain my bank account while they drain me of healthy vitality with their financially-motivated offers of pharmaceuticals and surgery that promise to do what I can do for free.

Health is not a commodity we can purchase -- it is something we must earn by our own efforts and vigilance.

The majority, though, don't get out of the starting blocks -- the mental blocks to weightloss, that is.

Smart people will set themselves apart from the crowd by rejecting all the comfortable excuses that leave the majority so fat.

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