Yes, love you, the first step to successful weight loss and the ability to keep the weight off is to love you. Your body image is a direct reflection of how you feel about yourself. Now don't get me wrong everyone does not have to be a size 4 in order to be healthy and love themselves, you can find a healthy size 18 and an unhealthy size 2. Its all about diet, exercise, and total personal care. Every skinny person isn't healthy, and every plump person isn't unhealthy.
Nevertheless, many people struggle with body image, self esteem, and it is reflected in their weight; as the one thing we can control as adults is what we put into our bodies. Some eat out of comfort, others out of depression, whatever the reason to successfully lose weight, keep it off, and get to your optimal weight and size you have to dig deep and truly ask and answer these questions for yourself, DO I LOVE ME? AM I HAPPY WITH WHAT I SEE WHEN I LOOK IN THE MIRROR? Think about the foods you eat and when you choose to eat them eg. cookies, brownies, ice cream, ding dongs, ho ho's, twinkies etc. ARE YOU AN EMOTIONAL EATER? DO YOU FEEL IN CONTROL OR CONTROL WHEN YOU EAT?
Avoid the 3 C's, do not compete, compare, or categorize. Do not compare your weight loss success to someone smaller than yourself. That is setting yourself up for a trap, YOU have to be comfortable with YOU and the skin that YOU are in, if that's a size 3, 8, 10, 12, or 20. If you are truly happy with yourself and HEALTHY, ALL is WELL!!!!
80% of your weight loss success is directly related to the CHOICES you make when it comes to the foods you eat. Yes 80%, the other 20% is related to exercise, so if you plan to exercise and not change your diet, you are setting yourself up for failure.
Diet affects A LOT, memory, clarity of mind, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, asthma, and a list of other ailments can be CURED or PREVENTED with DIET! Modern medicine is great and wonderful, but to have to take MAN MADE pills every day for the rest of your life when the MOST HIGH has blessed us with the best vegetation, herbs, and plantation for life, health, and vitality is interesting to say the least to me. I went out to eat with a friend from grammar school that I am rebuilding a relationship with. Her doctor diagnosed her with diabetes and immediately provided her with a prescription. There was no mention of diet, changing her diet, any of that. She decided within herself to change her own diet, not take the medicine and her diabetes is under control!
Americans are some of the most obese people in all the world. Why? Because we have access to so many fast food restaurants, also because we are a I need it now society, nuke it (microwave it), eat it instantly out of a box society. We must rid ourselves of that mentality.
Do I personally eat fast food? Absolutely! Do I eat it often? Absolutely not! BUT I make it a practice to eat the foods below more than I eat the foods above and more importantly I make it a habit to PREPARE my own foods at home. I know what seasons, spices, and oil (extra virgin olive oil) I'm using to cook with etc. All of these things make a difference in your health and weight loss. I understand when you are on the go, it is hard to find healthy eating options but imagine if the only time you ate fast food was one meal 1 day a weekend when you're on the go on the weekend? Eat more foods that don't come out of box, carton, or packaged wrapper!
The best foods are foods that are fresh and RAW! Try it in your weight loss eating or drinking (juicing) something a serving of raw fruits and vegetables everyday. While drinking a V8 or taking a vitamin supplement is good, nothing beats the real thing.
Eating healthy raw foods you will find that you feel better, look better (weight and skin) and be an overall healthier you!
Water, water is important for your body and your health. If you don't want to buy bottled water, boil your water at home or get a filter system. I've been researching and learning more about alkaline water. It is suppose to keep the bodies PH levels in tact which makes it impossible for sickness/disease to live in your body. Walmart carries a brand called Eternal water, look into it, do your research.
Epiphany Essentials Weight Loss Tips:
- Love You, Get to the Root of Your Self-Esteem and Body Image Perception
- Get to the root of your eating choices and habits
- Commit to you in 2013, commit to making more healthy than unhealthy food choices
- Eat breakfast (a meal, fruit, nuts, granola, yogurt, or juice it, something!)
- Eat/drink raw fruits and vegetables daily
- Drink plenty of water
- Drink green tea and other teas ( NOT "DIET" teas)
- Give up soda and sugary drinks...(initially give it up, then slowly re-introduce)
- Have a diet high in fiber and low in fat/processed foods
- Eat raw nuts as well, walnuts, almonds (create a feeling of fullness), cashews, peanuts etc.
- Get moving, exercise, walk, run, bike, do jumping jacks, dance etc. at home (see my post from yesterday, you don't have to go to the gym to exercise) but commit to do something daily
- Work out recommendations - yoga, pilates, cardio, and weight training (find something that works for you and there are plenty of FREE workouts online)
Great on-line resources
Make it fun, keep it light, don't view diet change and weight loss as a chore but look as it as a way of life. By no means must you give up anything, consume EVERYTHING in moderation. If you sit and drink too much water at once or in a short period of time you could die from water intoxication. The point, too much of anything isn't good! Everything should be done in moderation.
For those who are committed to losing weight in 2013, I hope that your journey is a successful, all problems and issues must be attacked at the root, get to the heart of the matter, and love yourself.
Be a blessing and be blessed! Namaste! Peace! Love! Joy! Blessings! Prosperity! Favor! Health!
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