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Attitude Adjustment: The Ultimate Weight-Loss Product
Stop wasting your time with weight-loss
products and programs—what you really need is an attitude
adjustment! Change your beliefs and practices to gain a self-image
that you’re proud of. Enjoy how pride and the desire to take
care of your beautiful body encourage a healthy lifestyle that will
make you feel and look fabulous.
Those pounds keep hanging around and your commitments
to weight loss fail one by one. Reaching and maintaining your ideal
weight can be a frustrating lose-lose battle, and it’s a battle
of self-abuse that many people fight today. Just look at the innumerable
books on the subject of fast weight loss, not to mention the ads
in magazines and on TV for weight-loss programs and products. Americans
are obsessed with weight—not only their own, but the weight
of celebrities and colleagues alike.
Why? Why is this area of self-image
such an "issue" in today’s society? Is it because
we are so image-conscious that we are constantly hoping to buy the
next pant size down, or is it because we feel like our weight is
out of our control? We need to reexamine our beliefs and practices
concerning weight loss. It has become typical to "blame"
the advertising industry or the movie industry and the beautiful
but stick-skinny women they like to hire. But does blaming "them"
help keep the number on the scale low? I have yet to see a supermodel
force-feed anyone to eat that extra helping at dinner or that extra-big
slice of cake.
If your weight has fluctuated over
the past few years, look back and notice when you began busting
out of your "just-right pants" and when you fit perfectly
in your "skinny jeans." Bets have it that when you were
at a healthy weight, you felt good about yourself, and your self-esteem
was higher than at the other times. Perhaps things were going well
at work, or you just met a new extra-special someone, or financial
flow was good, and you were just plain enjoying life. Most likely,
losing those extra pounds (or gaining, in some people’s case)
gave you an extra boost which affected all aspects of life. The
weight fell off; you got happy about it and felt more in control!
However, when the pounds starting creeping back on, that new someone
faded out of the picture, or your co-worker started complaining
again, your commitment to weight loss waned. You indulged your low
self-esteem by eating donuts again at breakfast. Whoa! Stop! Can
someone say "endless cycle"?
Now what would The Attitude Doc
suggest is the cure to this spiral of chaos? Where would she tell
you to first look to find a remedy to the ups and downs of life
and pounds?
Bingo. Get an attitude adjustment—discover
what beliefs are making you feel the way you do, and then do something
about it.
So, instead of waiting for the pounds
to fall down to feel good, why not focus on feeling good first?
Maybe you’ve got five, 10, 20, or 120 lbs to go. Stop waiting for life to give you what you want, and
enjoy it now, overweight or not.
You’ll be surprised to see
that it isn’t necessarily food or lack of exercise affecting
your waistline, and it’s not your waistline that’s affecting
your self-esteem. It’s your attitude: an attitude change will
affect everything. Imagine for a moment that we lived in a different
place and time where what women find attractive is a fuller figure.
In fact, there have been places and times when fat was a luxury
and was therefore envied. The robust woman was considered the most
sensual rather than the least! At certain times in our culture,
everyone wanted to eat as much as possible because everyone wanted
to be fat, and all of the women in magazines were at least a size
14. An actress couldn’t get a job if she weighed under 150 lbs.
How would you view your body in that light?
Do you see how beliefs affect each
and every one of us? If you believe that skinniness is beautiful,
then you are buying into a belief that is taking away your beauty!
If you believe that fatness is beautiful, you’re doing the
same thing. Try believing you’re beautiful no matter what
the weight. In other words, try accepting yourself, and focusing
on your health, not what the scale says, to determine your self-esteem.
Become your own body weight calculator. I guarantee you that when
you start to accept yourself as you are, you won’t crave the
milkshakes as much, and exercise will be a refreshing break in your
day, rather than a chore.
It all starts with attitude.
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