Redefining Selfish – Perspectives for Permanent Weight Loss

In today’s world, women are stressed, exhausted and waaaaayyyyy too busy.  Is it any surprise excess weight is the result?

When stress hormones run rampant within the body, the addrenal glands are overworked, affecting every gland and organ in the body… and the body is not able to efficiently deal with the toxicity created… fatigue and fat are natural results.

It’s time for a different perspective, especially if you want permanent weight loss.

 

Is this how you gather strength…

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so you can take care of everyone else?

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In the last forty years, women have made tremendous advances in the world, busting down boundaries, raising the glass ceiling, taking more responsibility and wielding more power – and don’t misunderstand me – those are all tremendous accomplishments.

But, there’s a problem.

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Six Key Weight Loss Habits of the Naturally Thin

Part of my real-world research as I lost over 90 lbs involved following naturally thin people around.  Asking questions.  Posing challenges.  Discerning habits.  My merciless stalking, if you will, produced a wealth of information I had never learned in my food addicted upbringing.

Naturally thin people are not thin because they are smarter, stronger or have more willpower than other people.  They are thin because they have developed habits that serve THIN, instead of making FAT.  Here are the top six:

1.   Never Eat Unless Hungry – Naturally thin people know hunger cues, and see them as signals for action.  Without the green light, they don’t eat.

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2.  Stop Before Full – Naturally thin people never feel stuffed or uncomfortable.  They feel a satiation cue which stops them right before they are completely full.  Their connection to their bodies is strong, and they honor the feedback they get from their physical body.

3.  Waste Food, Not Waist It – People who never struggle with their weight don’t worry about throwing food out when they are full, whether that means a to-go box, or the trash can.  They know that refusing to “waste food” means “waisting” it, which is just like carrying your garbage around on your body for everyone to see.

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Did Barbie Curse Women into Obesity?

I cringe when I see her tiny hard body.  I’m filled with disgust for her negative influence.  She may be unaware, but she has many robotic ambassadors roaming the world in influential places – movies, media, fashion, music.

And she’s at it again.  She’s a perpetual iconic figure who continues to regenerate, and live in our brains, and make us very fat.

I’m talking about Barbie.

The doll.

Yes, the doll.

Here’s the latest Barbie to hit the market, ripe for holiday buying by moms, dads, aunts, uncles, cousins and substitute Santas everywhere.

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Is the Real Cost of Excess Weight Diminished Intelligence?

(Regarding The New York Times article “The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less.”)

I spoke on NBC15 news last week about persistent problems that threaten our daily intelligence – the inspiration for this segment was an article published in The New York Times, entitled “The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less.”

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What happens when we have an issue, problem or condition that constantly takes up a good deal of our available “bandwidth” – the energy, attention, focus, emotionality, and thought processes that go on beneath the surface?

We actually have less capacity to handle the important things in life: Career, relationships, environment, meaningful connection, pleasurable pursuits, and personal fulfillment.

These often unexplored topics are where we feel scarcity in our lives, or where we feel ourselves lacking, like esteem, intelligence, money, weight. And what do we create when we run the energy of scarcity in our lives?

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Snapshot of Permanent Weight Loss

Even though this Winter in Wisconsin has been a very looooonnnnnngggg ordeal, it is finally looking like Spring.  And I’ve become a spring cleaning whirlwind.

One of the metaphors of losing a substantial amount of weight is holding on.  In order to lose weight, I had to let go of old ideas.  The less I grasped at trivial things out of a mental sense of scarcity, the more abundance I found.  And stuff… well, letting go of the saboteur in my mind was tough, but it mysteriously made throwing away the crap in the attic easy.

So, I love letting go of stuff.  And I was busy letting go of lots of clutter in my home office this weekend when I opened a drawer that is sticky and often stuck.  It obviously hadn’t been opened in years.  I knew that because, inside, were…. old bank statements.  Very old bank statements.

Some of the statements were so old they had returned checks inside (yes, that old!).

So, I sat on the floor and dragged this over:

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As I began to feed the shredder, I was fascinated by what blurred past my eyes.  It was a little snapshot of a true lifestyle change. (more…)