Best Life 2 (Cherish your Body)

If you are overweight or have some kilos you want to lose, help yourself by looking at this problem in a deeper way.


Try to see it not as a weight issue but as a loving one . For some people food is their drug choice when they are feeling down or sad. It's their way to cope with the problems instead of facing them. A way to comfort themselves in bad times.

Definitely other people do not have such a problem, they just like to eat more than others, even, they want to eat when they are happy. Another group of people cope with sadness by eating less.

Using food as your drug choice in bad times leads to an overweight problem in which you feel as if Fat has won and you have failed – you can not control your own being.

To get better in shape you have to deal with what is really going inside. Ask yourself why am I overweight? You have to search on a deeper level.
Know what are you really hungry for? What is missing in your life?

Everyone differs in his answer, may be you feel unhappy in your carrier or you are living an unbalanced life.
Some feel overwhelmed in their busy life, doing so much that they lost sense of themselves. Others, still do not find their path/way in life, they are still looking.

You do not have to learn to embrace hunger which is hard to do, you need to go deeper-as said above-
Your plan is to ask yourself these questions:

1. Why are you overweight? [on a deeper level]
2. What are you really hungry for? [what are you looking for?]
3. Why did you fail before? [may be you have Lost your weight before, but when you think you made it, here starts your downfall. You go back to your old eating habits. You have to pay attention everyday to your diet .It is an everyday process.]
4. Why do you want to lose weight? [Is it really for your health or appearance or both? – you have to know that if you set for yourself a certain number to reach, you may not reach it and that makes you unhappy or even if you reach it, you may be still unhappy. This means the real reason of your sadness was not your weight, since reaching the weight you defined for yourself did not make you happy.]

God has blessed you with this precious body. Appreciate what you have been given. You need to realize how many times you have abused your body. Although, you do not feed it well or it is deprived of sleep, it is, by god's will, still functioning. Literally this body is baring you. Love yourself and take care of it.

• Have a balanced healthy diet.
  
• Plan for your life and your meals.
• Exercise: walk 30 minutes a day or as you feel comfortable- dance- train with weights aiming for a better shape for your body [building muscles make your body burn more calories and it is good for your bones.]

Know that life goes on, take lessons of life experiences, move on and get yourself together. Love yourself because it deserves to be loved.

From Oprah Winfrey Show