What is Holding You Back from Dropping Pounds?

By Vito La Fata


Have you tried to lose weight but have found it difficult or even impossible? There are many things that can keep you from losing weight. Sometimes it is hard to uncover what those things are. They can be any of a number of different things.

When you are dealing with stressful things, such as not being able to make your car payment, your body can produce the same kind of chemical compounds that it produces when real danger is at hand, such as the threat of starvation or hypothermia. The effect on your body is that it can cause it to hold on to extra fat in order to be safe. Understanding this sort of thing is part of learning to approach losing weight from the inside, rather than from the outside. There are many perceived threats that could be keeping you from losing weight.

For example, you may be experiencing a fear of scarcity. When you have fear that you are not going to have sufficient funds, your body may respond by storing up fat. Your body may perceive that threat as a threat of insufficient food.

Emotional obesity is another threat that may be keeping you in a state of being overweight. Without even realizing it you may have the mindset that carrying around extra weight keeps you safe. In fact, you may think that it helps you in other emotional ways. If this is true, then this may be a reason that you continue to be fat.

Mental Starvation: Though your body only recognizes physical starvation, you can also be suffering from emotional or mental starvation. This could be a desire for love, joy, fun, intimacy, or a deeper spiritual connection. Any mental or emotional longing can send the same chemical signals in your brain that physical starvation causes.

Finally, you may have some beliefs that are dysfunctional. Do you secretly think that you are meant to be fat? If so, you may be sabotaging yourself and keeping yourself from losing weight. Try to change your thinking and you may find that you lose weight!




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