Does your weight make you feel like you're behind bars?
Even for Paul life was a mystery and he wondered how he is doing the things he doesn't want to do but the things he wants to do, those he doesn't do.
Another way of saying this is that we are built to break rules. As humans we are meant to find freedom and testing and breaking those rules is part of this human experience. Does this mean that we are here to be stubborn and purposely create drama to get people upset - of course not. However, eating a meal big enough for 3, and then hoping that our bodies love us for it can not be called true freedom. We have to remember that we do live in the real world and there are consequences to all of our actions. At the same time, we are told that the greatest commandment is love and that love never lets us down.
So if love never fails, what does that tell us about the 90% of diets that continually fail? Yes, you guessed right: not much love there
So what if we approached our bodies and our overall health with an amazing love that is tender, instead of submitting to someone else's diet - especially knowing that our deep rooted goal is to break free from rules, especially other people's rules.
There are three ways we can start to be loving towards ourselves:
1. The nutritional label reading thing: it's gotta go. I believe that we are made to believe that by reading those things we are gods who then can force our bodies into creating different chemical components for our bodies. Reading the ingredients is a much better and simpler approach. The less ingredients the better the product. And make sure you understand them, because so will your body understand them.
2. Stay away from foods that say "fat free," or "light." Look at a bag of candies, often they now say "fat free" and that may be true. However, the content of these bags are pure chemicals mixed with some corn byproduct, which your body has absolutely no idea what to do with it. So it turns it into pure body fat. Just because you give your body a fat free product doesn't mean that your body won't convert it into fat. Remember that your body is a pure chemical laboratory and it can create anything it needs or has to in order to protect itself from harm. Your body's one purpose is for it to stay healthy for as long as you allow it, so it can carry you through life in order for you to carry out your life's purpose. All we have to do is learn to get out of its way, to stop playing God and to listen to what our bodies tell us.
3. And by all means do not buy foods that are not really foods. For example, if it states on the label that it can't believe that it's not whatever, then don't believe it. If the product itself can't believe you're your body won't know what to do with it either. Much better than fake sugars is to give your body natural sweeteners, such as agave nectar or raw honey. There are also sugars from trees that are excellent for diabetics and does not require a birch tree to be cut down. Our bodies this way know exactly what to do with the foods we feed it and it can convert the contents into needed nutrients. Feeding our bodies fake and manufactured foods only creates confusion for our bodies, which in turn might reject what we feed it all together or make our bodies turn the contents into pure fat or create havoc such as diabetes, high blood pressure and so on.
Even for Paul life was a mystery and he wondered how he is doing the things he doesn't want to do but the things he wants to do, those he doesn't do.
Another way of saying this is that we are built to break rules. As humans we are meant to find freedom and testing and breaking those rules is part of this human experience. Does this mean that we are here to be stubborn and purposely create drama to get people upset - of course not. However, eating a meal big enough for 3, and then hoping that our bodies love us for it can not be called true freedom. We have to remember that we do live in the real world and there are consequences to all of our actions. At the same time, we are told that the greatest commandment is love and that love never lets us down.
So if love never fails, what does that tell us about the 90% of diets that continually fail? Yes, you guessed right: not much love there
So what if we approached our bodies and our overall health with an amazing love that is tender, instead of submitting to someone else's diet - especially knowing that our deep rooted goal is to break free from rules, especially other people's rules.
There are three ways we can start to be loving towards ourselves:
1. The nutritional label reading thing: it's gotta go. I believe that we are made to believe that by reading those things we are gods who then can force our bodies into creating different chemical components for our bodies. Reading the ingredients is a much better and simpler approach. The less ingredients the better the product. And make sure you understand them, because so will your body understand them.
2. Stay away from foods that say "fat free," or "light." Look at a bag of candies, often they now say "fat free" and that may be true. However, the content of these bags are pure chemicals mixed with some corn byproduct, which your body has absolutely no idea what to do with it. So it turns it into pure body fat. Just because you give your body a fat free product doesn't mean that your body won't convert it into fat. Remember that your body is a pure chemical laboratory and it can create anything it needs or has to in order to protect itself from harm. Your body's one purpose is for it to stay healthy for as long as you allow it, so it can carry you through life in order for you to carry out your life's purpose. All we have to do is learn to get out of its way, to stop playing God and to listen to what our bodies tell us.
3. And by all means do not buy foods that are not really foods. For example, if it states on the label that it can't believe that it's not whatever, then don't believe it. If the product itself can't believe you're your body won't know what to do with it either. Much better than fake sugars is to give your body natural sweeteners, such as agave nectar or raw honey. There are also sugars from trees that are excellent for diabetics and does not require a birch tree to be cut down. Our bodies this way know exactly what to do with the foods we feed it and it can convert the contents into needed nutrients. Feeding our bodies fake and manufactured foods only creates confusion for our bodies, which in turn might reject what we feed it all together or make our bodies turn the contents into pure fat or create havoc such as diabetes, high blood pressure and so on.
About the Author:
Chaszey Sandhriel is a trainer and seminar leader empowering women to look, feel and be their highest. Look at her wonderful "before and after" pictures or http://www.itsmyweightloss.com to get her easy tips. Or visit her blog at http://itsmyweightloss.blogspot.com.
