What is Keeping You From Shedding Inches?

By Vito La Fata


If you have tried to drop some extra pounds but have found it difficult, you are not alone. Many people struggle to lose weight. The truth is, there are many reasons why your body may be holding on to extra weight. The challenge for you is to identify what those reasons are.

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.

One of those threats that may be keeping you fat is a fear of scarcity. If you are afraid that you are not going to have enough money, your body receives a message that resources may be scarce. Since food is the main resource that your body acknowledges, in the face of such a threat of scarcity, you may end up saving up fat.

Also, you may be experiencing emotional obesity, and this may be keeping extra pounds on your body. Storing extra fat may in some way make your brain feel like you are safer. If you unconsciously think that being overweight helps you to be safer, then that may be one reason why you are not losing weight.

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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