Obesity

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85.     If you want a healthy life and weight, you will need to learn the skills to make life-long changes and find support (family and friends) you need to create one that is right for you. It does not mean changing everything overnight, but simply being open to new ways of doing things. Making small changes, such as being aware of your portion sizes, eating more fresh fruits and raw vegetables, avoiding junk food and pushing yourself a bit more everyday during your exercise routine, can all add up to significant improvements in your health.

86.     It is, therefore, very important to stop falling for the fad dieting gimmicks, and understand that as humans we are meant to eat a balanced diet full of a diverse array of foods from healthy natural sources of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. This gives your body all of the macro-nutrients as well as all of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes that your body needs to run like a well-oiled fat burning machine – your own body you love the most.

 New Emerging Paradigm for Dieting

87.     Most people are obsessed about their weight and we spend so much money and time every year feeding that obsession to achieve an impossible ideal of thinness and beauty that is virtually unattainable to the vast majority of the people. It seems that all those devices and diets such as potions and powders, supplements and artificial sweeteners have done little to nourish what is really important – one’s self-esteem. This factor has been largely ignored by traditional approaches to weight loss.

88.     The solution to being overweight, then, is not simply to eat less and exercise more. The new emerging weight paradigm focuses on things in addition to weight loss: healthy eating, regular exercise, positive self-esteem and perhaps most importantly, self-acceptance. Being healthy has less to do with a number on a weighing scale than the ability to balance and nurture all aspects of one’s life: emotional, mental and spiritual, as well as physical.

 DIETING MYTHS AND BLUNDERS

89.     April Fools Day comes once a year, but falling for dieting myths and blunders is an everyday occurrence. Here are some mistakes dieters make: –

(i)      Most dieters don’t have the patience and they want to get rid of fat immediately – It is a blunder to be avoided. They forget that it took several years to reach their current weight. Now that they have decided to lose it, they want it off right away. Get real and reasonable with your time frames and aim to lose about 500 grams a week. If you start a sensible diet, follow it properly. Don’t spend half your life dieting. Do it once and do it properly.