What's the lose weight without dieting movement?The lose weight without dieting movement has been growing in popularity and there's a good reason for this. Increasingly obesity researchers and weight loss experts are openly stating that diets not only don't work, but are causing obesity, eating disorders and other problems.
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The good of the lose weight without dieting thinkingThe great thing about no diet weight loss is that there are no pills you have to pay for or take, nor is there restriction or deprivation.It relies on instinctive eating (being body-wise) to overcome over-eating. So at least you won't be conned by these kind of advertisements. Diet advertisements con us
Many of the weight loss methods we're conned into - supposedly in the name of health, diet and fitness should to carry warning labels, not only about the physical
dangers of dieting,
but about the psychological dangers too. Instead headlines shriek: • "Slimming pills work" (well they do... for the drug manufacturers. I sure did my share to boost their profits) • "How to lose weight quickly" (what they don't say is the quicker you lose it, the quicker you gain it back too) • "Best diet loss programs" (the biggest losses from diets are often to your
self-esteem
and sense of hope • "Successful fat loss" (fad diets are fabulous fat gain programs - yes they are!) • "Food counter diets" (not only did I count ever food calorie - they also made me obsessed and all food started feeling like diet foods!) • “Laxatives to lose weight” (I tried this too um… along with “diuretics for weight loss”. Excuse me saying so... but it was a rather shitty life!)
Even 'healthy' adverts catch usI also love the ones that make out as if they belong to the lose weight without dieting movement: "Lose weight naturally" or "All natural weight loss".Then they promptly turn around and offer us yet another bunch of diet pills or slimming shakes as a means to loosing weight. And we're so desperate we buy this. If you're hooked into the Diet rat race, it may seem impossible to believe that you you can lose weight without dieting. I understand that. I didn't believe it either which was why, when I eventually quit dieting and stacked up my stash of diet books and articles on diet and weight loss, the pile was taller than I was! (Did I mention that I tend to be a little bit of extremist?)
But I fell for all these too...AND moreI was a desperate diet dummy - top of the class for believing that you can never be too thin and that diets were the way to do it.I would have laughed at you if you'd tried to get me to join the lose weight without dieting movement. I would have thought that was a ridiculous notion. Instead I continued to try any- and every-thing. • Slimming shakes. I've lost track of how many of these I tried. The usually tasted bloomin awful and I constantly felt deprived. No wonder, you can't fool your natural body for long.
Diet shakes don't count as real food and it's only a matter of time before your body revolts.
• Machine slimming. Yes I hate to admit that I did once try machine slimming. It hurt like hell and shocked the living daylights out of my cells so that my cellular water left those areas long enough for the measurements to look good. But being only a water weight shift - not surprisingly, it was soon back. • Slimming belt. Now this was a real winner - this slimming belt would alledgedly wobble the fat away. Well it really did a great job of doing the wobbling half of the equation. But when it came to the 'away' half.... um... I think not. • Slimming wrap..... yes, I know, I know. All it did was make me think suffocation was preferable. As you can see I was a sucker for every conceivable fat-loss-for-idiots-plan around. • Hypnosis tapes. Well at least these did me no harm and they were great for taking a nap.
But yay there were some I didn't fall forSo ok - I fell for some real diet doozies but at least I was smart enough to avoid taking up smoking, taking speed or other recreational drugs or going to diet doctors for their so-called weight loss injections. Nor did I ever resort to weight loss surgery.But that doesn't mean I haven't experienced them through clients and friends who have. As a therapist, who saw mainly clients with eating disorders, I've been priviledged to some pretty awful stories about what weight loss methods people try and how it changes their lives and I've yet to hear a positive story about these. Instead I did did witness heart-ache and tears of despair. And I recently heard from a lady who very proudly told me she has just hauled herself and her 9-year old daughter (yes- 9!) to a slimming doctor for weight loss injections (my heart simply bleeds).
The not so good of the lose weight without dieting movementHere's the problem: the goal of even the no diet weight loss programmes is still only ultimately only losing weight.For the most part the losing weight without dieting movement still doesn't take into account that: • Many people carry phantom fat and really should not be attempting to lose weight – they need a
mind makeover,
not a body makeover.
• As plenty of research on obesity shows, carrying extra weight is not the health ogre it’s always made out to be. There are plenty exceptions to this rule and we need to expand the message that we can be
beautiful
and healthy at every size.
• Their focus is primarily on changing eating habits. While I fully support natural bodywise eating (and give guidelines for how to achieve this in all my books), I still believe that the central focus needs to be personal and spiritual growth, and living a life filled with passion and purpose. It also doesn't take into account that Mind becomes Matter and that from a quantum energy point of view we are creating our own bodies.
The difference (which admittedly is a big one) between the lose weight without dieting movement, is that the weight loss industry sell us that it's healthy to be thin regardless of how unhealthy their weight loss program is. We've been so brainwashed that we don't see the dangers of dieting even when they're pretty obvious. I mean...how healthy can a 'healthy weight loss' (as some companies like to lable it) be when it excludes major food groups? Heck you even get Mono diets where you eat only one food type or group!!! Sounds like food faddism to me! How sustainable are those? At least with the lose weight without dieting movement there are no restrictive or deprivational eating practices. It's all body driven rather than diet-plan driven. How bodywise can it be to ignore your hunger and follow some 'lose weight fast program' where the interval between eating means you're starving half the time? And how realistic is it to want to even live this way? Having been on the lose weight without dieting path myself starting in 1990/1991 I know that while it was a real struggle to adapt to listening to my body - I know that my weight loss has been natural and sustainable.
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