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Weight loss Tip 42
Stop sabotaging your potential for change.
We subconsciously use defense mechanisms to shield us from situations we perceive to be scary or painful. A part of you may want to grow and change, but another part may be resisting because change always moves you into new territory in your thinking and emotions.
If you find you are getting anxious, fearful, angry, frustrated, dismissive or unmotivated, then defense mechanisms are at work. Watch for them and know them to be signs of fear that wants to hold you back. Then courageously move through them.
Weight loss Tip 43
Recognizing emotional hunger (as apposed to real physical hunger) is one of the keys to overcoming or staving off frequent emotional eating.
Some of the characteristics of emotional hunger include:
Emotional hunger comes on suddenly.
One minute you're not hungry at all and the next minute you're starving.
Emotional hunger often craves specific food, like pizza, chocolate, or a cheeseburger.
Emotional hunger begins in the mouth and the mind, not the stomach.
Emotional hunger often accompanies an unpleasant emotion.
Emotional hunger involves automatic or absent-minded eating.
Emotional hunger isn't satisfied when you're full.
Emotional hunger makes you feel guilty.
Weight loss Tip 44
Keep believing in yourself.
You are in control and have the power to make changes in your life.
Weight loss Tip 45
Develop new mood regulation strategies.
For example, share your problems when anxious and exercise when you're bored.
Weight loss Tip 46
Try to eat more foods that are high in fibre.
Research shows that people who have diets high in fibre typically have lower body weights, lower body fat and lower body mass indexes.
Some researchers believe that the high incidences of obesity in the western world is in part due to the fact that our diets are typically very low in fibre compared to other regions of the world such as Africa and Asia, where diets are predominantly plant based.
Weight loss Tip 47
Where possible, eat whole fruits instead of drinking fruit juices.
Many fruits have most of their goodness in the skin which isn't always used in making fruit juice.