Nov, 9, 2011

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The Truth Sometimes Hurts | overeating

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    The Truth About Overeating Sometimes Hurts

    The image above is sort of funny in a sense but there’s actually truth in both sides.

    The REASON you gain weight is that you constantly over-eat.  But the REASON you are constantly overeating is an attempt to mask a pain or get rid of tension in your body.

     

    And the REASONS you have (emotional) pain or tension in your body can be any of the items in the left column of the above image or a million other reasons.  Both weight loss and fat loss are held for ransom when you have pent up emotional pain.  Overeating is just a symptom and you need to recognize it as such.

     

    Not everyone over-eats to deal with their pain.  Some people drink, some do drugs, some are sex addicts, the list goes on.  Food is just another drug when it becomes an addiction.  If weight loss is important to you, learning to recognize the triggers for your addiction is critical.  Overeating is just a symptom and you need to recognize this and accept it as so.

     

    Regardless of what your addiction is,  when you feel the urge to act out, the urge is often seemingly impossible to overcome.  The result… binging on whatever drug you’re addicted to.

     

    Obviously even if you do well for three or four days in a row, your fat loss will come screeching to a halt and you’ll even gain weight if you end up binging like the girl in the upcoming video.

     

    There are only one of two possible outcomes.  A continued downward spiral, out-of-control, into despair, and ultimately a sad and unhappy life…

    This poor girl is on a collision course with a freight train full of despair…

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    Or..

    You can change.

     

    Stopping Overeating Takes Courage

    But changing will take more courage than anything else in your life ever will.  You may have to try hundreds of times before you finally have enough courage to finally make your changes stick… but the rewards are worth it.

     

    No matter how much you think your situation is different and impossible to change… in the end, it is your choice, and only you can make it happen.

     

    I would appreciate if you would please leave your comments on overeating in the box below.

     

     

     

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      3 Comments "The Truth Sometimes Hurts | overeating"

      • Magali says:
        November 17, 2011 at 10:32 am
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        Hey Shane

        Thanks for the post. It got me thinking about a lot of things: the psychology of change, America’s obesity rates (as opposed to France’s, for example), our relationship to food, the food and diet industry, media and women’s body image/behaviours towards food, etc.

        I want to start by pointing out that you contradict yourself in your post. According to you, people overeat to soothe pain or tension. But many of the occasions to overindulge listed in the image are joyous occasions. That said, I think that a lot of North Americans are eating too much… all the time. Also, a study I read recently confirms that people grossly underestimate how many calories they eat…which suggests that many of us are overeating without even being aware of it. The study also pointed out that people were shocked by how badly they underestimated the calories they were ingesting. Some stated they would be willing to pay more (yes, more!) for smaller portion sizes.

        What about overeating and culture? I have family in France and when they come to visit they are always shocked at how obese some people are here. According to them, such obesity doesn’t exist in France (maybe that’s changing – the French love MacDo). Which gets me wondering…do people overeat less over there? Do the French have a different relationship with food, one that helps keep them thin? I’ll have to read “French women don’t get fat” by Mireille Guiliano.

        I won’t get started on: assumptions we make about obese/overweight people (fat lazy slobs with no self control), beliefs we hold about the change process (Just do it…if only it were that easy), the whole low-fat diet boondoggle and the sham that is the food pyramid, etc. etc.

        Finally, PMS is not on the list! All the PhysXtreme ladies will agree it should be there!

        Thanks for letting me share.

        • admin says:
          November 17, 2011 at 4:09 pm
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          Good point Magali… you’re right.. people do overeat as an indulgence for happy reasons too. But I guess those ones aren’t the hard ones to stop. So they’re not usually the ones that people cite as why they CAN’T lose weight.

          I thought the graphic was funny though..

      • Katy says:
        November 29, 2011 at 5:18 pm
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        Ya, I agree about food overeating being a symptom of emotional pain being repressed. When we overeat at joyous occasions, that happens! ie: christmas etc… but it doesn’t happen so often that we outgrow our clothes, lose our self-awareness. It is not a fateful crime to be in a place in your life where the struggle seems to get the better of you, but it is a loss of joy in your life when you cannot see that only you have the ability to change your patterns.

        I say to keep living with conscious awareness and the right decisions will prevail, aka: truth.

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