Shed weight and be slim!
The Last Doughnut Programme shows you how
Are you depressed about your weight? Do you dread social functions, knowing that your clothes aren’t fitting you anymore? Do you fret about your weight and find the more you fret about it the more you eat?! Do you wish you could shed weight and keep it off? Tried every diet going? Grapefruit diets? Protein diets? Blood-group type diets? The list goes on! Many people diet and find after a while they slip back to their old eating habits. Some people never get as far as starting a diet as the mountain seems too big to climb! Would you like to shed weight permanently and see food in a very different light? Angela Jullings can help you change your behaviour and emotions around food.
 The truth about why you are overweight
“Being overweight is a state of mind. Being slim is a state of mind.” Angela Jullings
The truth about dieting
Dieting is a multi-million pound business in the UK. Walk into any bookstore and you’ll count endless books on the subject. There are dozens of exercise videos, calorie counting foods, weight loss drugs and weight loss clubs. As you’ve probably experienced already, the truth is that most diets don’t work for most people. Why not? The answer lies with “willpower”. These products rely on your “willpower” and using willpower to shed weight doesn’t work or at least, doesn’t last.
A common misconception is that you need willpower to shed weight. However, using willpower has two ways in which it sets you up for failure. Firstly, in the case of food, if you will yourself to shed weight, most people will themselves not to think about food. This is very typical. The person “wills” themselves not to eat so much, not to eat their favourite foods, not to think of food. However, if you think about it, the brain cannot process a negative. That is, if you tell yourself to “not think about food” you have to think about food in the first place in order to know what it is you mustn’t think about! Therefore, the thing you don’t want to think about, food, is already on your mind. The thing is, when you try to ignore something, it becomes more conscious for you, and builds up in your mind. When it builds up in your mind you’re then struggling to “resist” it and you reach a point where you become obsessed with thoughts of what we’re not eating!. What you resist, persists. This then becomes a feeling of deprivation and it’s almost as if you’re in a trance about food! Sound familiar?
So, you manage to struggle through trying to ignore thoughts of food, with a feeling of deprivation and reluctance setting in and you succeed in shedding the weight but then it’s usually only temporary. That’s the second downside to willpower. Then what happens? Because you haven’t actually changed the way in which you think of food or your relationship with it, the desire to shed weight has been achieved and now those goodies that you’ve been ignoring for so long are available to you again. As soon as that weight is lost, you’ve reverted to your old eating patterns again and re-gain all the weight. Sometimes even more. The problem is, once the weight is gone, the use of willpower recedes, it’s no longer necessary to reach your goal, you’ve achieved it so there is nothing to keep you at your new weight – no resources, no new behaviours, no new perception of food. Therefore, something more efficient and permanent than willpower is needed to enable you to stay slim and healthy.
Another reason dieting doesn’t work is that the body senses the shortness of food and changes the metabolic rate to slow down the process of fat burning in order to hold on to the fat incase it needs these reserves. The body is run by the unconscious mind and is highly intelligent. When we diet the body “learns” to store more reserves of fat in preparation for the next shortfall.
Causes of being overweight
As everyone is individual, no two clients will have the same relationship or use of food and the cause of being overweight will be different for each person. The causes fall into 4 main catergories:
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