A friend of mine has got a tree at his garden, one day he found that the tree was not looking good and so he decided to remove it. My friend went and cut the branches of the tree then came back home happily. After some time my friend found that the branches grew again, he was a little confused so he did cut them again. Few months later my friend was on his way home then he got mad when he found that the branches grew again.
But what did he do wrong? He did use the correct tool to cut the branch and he did cut it in a correct way, what was wrong then? Simply he didn?t cut the root, he just kept cutting the branches and repeating the whole process again.
weight loss and diet
You might be asking what does a story like that has to do with weight loss, simply because you have been doing the same as my friend was doing but not with trees, its with improper use of diet.
How many times have you attempted a diet and failed?
How many times have you suffered the pain of not eating what you want and then ended up with no result?
In short if you are serious about losing weight then you should detect the root cause of your eating habits, by knowing why you do eat much and so dealing with the root cause instead of cutting the branch. I am not saying that every diet will fail but as a measure of flexibility you should focus on what?s working instead of trying many times then lose hope, diet can be used along with another methods that focus on the removal of the root cause for overeating, else you will either get short term results or either you will get long term results but your life will be painful because you will be on a diet forever.
the root causes for over eating
Now, what are the reasons that make someone eat much more than he need?
Of course other than the food tastes delicious and other than chocolate is unbearable there are many reasons for overeating that you may not know much about, those reasons are:
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overeating and external dependency: do you know that lots of people who like to eat escape to eating? Escaping to eating is simply feeling like wanting to eat as soon as you feel down, bored or even depressed. A friend of mine who have got obesity problems once told me ?whenever I have a problem, I eat until I forget it?. This situation Is called external dependency, it?s the case where you become externally dependant on other factors in order to make you happy, it?s the same like addiction where addicts use drugs to change their mood or to escape to a better mood. the most important point in here is that you don?t eat because you are hungry!! You are just escaping to food.
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false ideas about food: some people have developed false ideas about food like "i will forget my problems when i eat? , of course those ideas may not be thought of consciously, instead they just become buried into the subconscious and that?s why you do feel like eating whenever you feel down.(usually those are the ideas of someone having the Endomorph body type)
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hating diet: when ever the word diet is mentioned you just recall the word pain, throughout the time you may have associated dieting with pain in your mind, and that?s why it fails, you just of it as if it?s a way of torturing rather than a way of helping you.
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low serotonin levels:charbohydarets increase the level of serotonin in your blood, serotonin is the hormone that makes us feel happy and prevents depression, when you eat less carbohydrates you may feel a little down and so escape to food, in order to prevent that from happening you just need to use other natural ways to increase your levels of serotonin other than eating.
dealing with obesity
Dealing with obesity is not just changing the type of food you consume, if you are serious about losing weight then know that weight loss is a process including changing your eating habits, changing false ideas you have about food, improving your mental self image and getting rid of external dependency