The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight (exposed!)
May 3rd, 2011 | posted by Kimberly
Did you know your body wants to be fat anytime it decides that being fat is the best way to keep you safe? Once your body understands that being thin is the best way to keep you safe, your body will want to be thin and the weight will fall off.
I found this out the hard way 17 years ago…
Being a young military wife in 1994, I found myself in Guam USA (a little dot on the globe) with no family or support network. I was raising 2 small children in this remote place and I felt very isolated. A recipe for gaining weight…over 50 pounds!
This all ties into our survival instincts to protect us from starvation, freezing to death or being eaten.
In our modern world you have different worries than being chased by a lion, but even modern stress about paying your bills or moving to a foreign country create the exact same chemical signals that are produced when you are starving or freezing. This convinces your body that you need to be fat in order to be safe.
When you approach weight loss from the outside in, you overlook mental and emotional threats that can confuse your body into thinking that being fat can help keep you safe. Here are four such threats:
- Fear of Scarcity: When you spend your time in fear that you don’t have enough money then you send a message to your body that resources are limited. The only resource that your body recognizes is food – and storing fat is how your body saves up.
- Emotional Obesity: At a subconscious level you may have the association that being fat makes you feel safer, or that it is serving another emotional need. In this case your body is simply trying to protect you; it is making you feel safer emotionally.
- Mental Starvation: Though your body only recognizes physical starvation, you can also be suffering from emotional or mental starvation. This could be a desire for love, joy, fun, intimacy, or a deeper spiritual connection. Any mental or emotional longing can send the same chemical signals in your brain that physical starvation causes.
- Dysfunctional Beliefs: If you believe that you were meant to be fat, or deserve to be fat, or if you view weight loss as impossible, then your body will obey by refusing to lose weight. Change your dysfunctional beliefs first and then weight loss will become simple.
Exercise was a big part of my remarkable weight loss journey. Once I broke through the mental and emotional reasons for being overweight, my body couldn’t get enough activity!
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