In this post, you’ll look at the 5 Weight-Locking Reasons Why You Are Fat (and will remain fat unless you change your thinking)
1. Your mind is programmed to function with shortcuts.
You live in an instant era where technology is making your life too easy with inventions being created every minute. Got a problem with a jiggly arm fat? No problem, just shake it off with Shake Weight. Want to look slim but don’t have time to exercise? Use a slimming belt! No time to cook dinner? You can always order take outs in that Chinese restaurant nearby. There’s nothing wrong with these and well, technology and other advancements are indeed supposed to help your life, but the problem is that you’re becoming too reliant on these “shortcuts” that when something goes wrong or doesn’t go the way you want it to be, you give up easily.
The other day I was watching a show and the wife was apparently fed up with her husband’s “work” life that she filed for a divorce even when clearly both were still very much in love. I just don’t get it. Why file a divorce when she knew her husband was doing his best to be there for his son and wife? Why not work it out?
This is one example I’m talking about people becoming too obsessed with quick-fixes that they easily forget that there are some things in life that the only quick solution to a problem is to invest a lot of time and effort in them like your health, weight, emotions, inner demons, and family.
There is still joy in doing little things manually. Don’t be too obsessed working for the future with the help of these shortcuts that when someone asks you what you like about your life now, you can’t think of an answer.
2. Media has convinced you that big is beautiful.
There’s nothing wrong with your big weight really, it is beautiful. It’s really impossible to live in a world where there’s only 1 size. But the problem with that thinking is that media has you convinced to stop trying to lose weight since “big is beautiful” anyway. You have been brainwashed by all the talk and the advertisements that you’ve used that perception to justify your laziness to do anything about it.
Do you really think that there’s nothing wrong when you ate an entire box of pizza, 4 spoonfuls of ice cream, 2 bags of potato chips, a muffin and washed them all down with 2 cups of iced tea while you mindlessly eat in front of Grey’s Anatomy? Hey, big is beautiful right?
3. You pretend you’re happy with your weight.
This is a lie someone who’s failed to achieve his/her weight loss goal many times. It is a lie someone like you might have said to yourself so many times that you’ve fooled yourself to believing that indeed, your weight doesn’t matter. On happier days, sure you believe enough to act on it, but happy days don’t always come by and what happens then?
Don’t tell me you’d want to be stuck in that weight forever because even you don’t believe that. If you believed that, would you still choose the same weight you are in now if genie suddenly appeared right before you and told you he can do that? If you believed that, would you still be wearing your plus size clothing if you could fit in size 2 or 3?
You may fool the people around you by acting happy with your weight, but when the curtains come down, you constantly have to relive those embarrassing times you had to squeeze yourself thin just to be able to fit into the airplane seat, or when you had to go to your daughter’s friend’s party only to see the parents there looking at you shamelessly. Yes, you are happy with your weight.
4. Your character or <insert another trait> is what matters most.
Your character will always rank higher than your wealth, prestige, intelligence, size, and others. Nothing can change that. But when you constantly say to yourself that “your character (your job or something else) is more important than weight,” you are using that notion as an alibi to continue doing what you’ve been doing about your weight, which is nothing.
“If he/she can’t see past my size, then clearly he/she’s wrong for me. “
“I maybe fat but I am earning 6-figure income.”
Sounds familiar? It should, you recite them to yourself over and over whenever you feel rejected. If you don’t remove this belief out of your system, you’re never going to lose weight.
5. You have unresolved emotional issues. That’s what’s eating you up.
Women, in particular are more susceptible to emotional eating because women are more sensitive and emphatic. It’s normal to want to go to Starbucks and get yourself a Venti Coffee Jelly just because it never fails to make you happy. But if that’s becoming more frequently, then start asking yourself why you are letting the Coffee Jelly act as the incentive to get through your day at work?
Do you tell yourself that you deserve that cake because you were so stressed at work? Once in a while it’s okay, but to do that every single day? You don’t need to be a scientist to know that your emotion is taking control of your life – and your weight. You need to shake yourself awake if you’ve been letting your emotion take the driver’s seat.
Stop using your work, stress, family, bills and whatever to be the excuse to eat your heart out.
The above statements are weight-locking, lazy reasons for you to keep doing nothing about your weight. Back in the 40s or 50s, there weren’t much illnesses and overweight people because technology is not as far advanced as it is now. Processed foods and fast foods aren’t as prevalent as it is today. People then didn’t really have much choice but to work for things laboriously. I guess you can say that they were simply living their lives.
Can you say the same thing about your life today?
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