Healthy Eating

Why Are You Overweight?
Now, this might seem a strange question, but think about it for a moment. If you know why you have a problem with your weight, then you should be able to see the solution to the problem. If you are sitting there thinking, I am overweight, I really want to do something about it, but I have no idea what that is; then be concerned no more.

You could buy hundreds of books about weight loss and most will tell you different things. Some will give you a food plan which might be great for a short time but one day you will wake up and want the food that is seen as bad.

There are certain facts about being overweight. Once you have been honest with yourself you should be able to see your weight loss starting to happen.

Too little exercise and too much food = weight gain.

It is a simple formula but one that few people take on board. If you don't want to exercise then that is your choice but don't eat enough to feed a horse because you are not a horse.

By having a list even in your sub-conscious mind of good foods and bad foods will mean you often will eat the "bad" foods and try and conceal it from others.

Is eating a bar of chocolate really cheating? Only if you eat too many of them and not reduce the rest of your eating to allow it? Or take adequate exercise to get rid of all the calories you have eaten. But if you eat 20 bars of chocolate a day you will be adding more health problems such as cholesterol problems and heart problems. You need to know the consequences of each action you take and then plan to do something about it.

Is eating pizza a bad choice? That is a loaded question. You see you could eat pizza which is healthy. You could choose to make your own low fat version. But pizza has a lot of calories even if you make it yourself. The answer is to be disciplined about how many slices of pizza you eat. Eat a whole 12" supreme pizza and it will take 11 hours of fast walking to work it off.

Good and Bad Foods

If you look at the some of the foods people think of as bad. Why do people associate eating certain foods as being bad and need to be eaten in secret? Who decided that these foods were bad in the first place?

Most of these foods have been labeled bad by the diet industry. Each one will tell you a different story normally to promote their diet plan. No food is that bad on its own and if eaten in moderation, but when you become addicted to food and have to consume many of that one food a day, then you will have a problem.

If you were to believe all the information in the various diets then you wouldn't eat anything, because most foods have been banned by at least one diet.

You know that when you tell a child not to do something or not to eat something they will automatically want to be disobedient? It doesn't take a child very long to learn the word, "NO". They are rebellious by nature and adults are no different. Put up a sign, "Do not touch" and people will sneak up and think of ways to touch the object without being caught.

A child might not even have been aware of some of the foods until you pointed them out to them. Once you told them something is bad for them, they will learn all different tricks and ways to get that food.

The same is true for each one of us. Decide to stop eating something and you see it everywhere you look. Suddenly you are craving it even if you didn't in the past. The same is true about anything that you want or desire.

You really want a new car and not only a new car but a certain type of car in a certain color. Now suddenly it seems everybody is driving it. Every time you are on the road you see it at least once. Has everybody gone out and bought your car? No it is likely that there were the same number on the road before but your subconscious mind tells you, "Look there's your car."