The Wellness of YOU! - # 34
posted in Nutrition and Weight Loss |It’s Still About Sugar and Weight Loss
If you read yesterday’s postings to this blog, you’ll remember that we were just digging into the reasons why we have these cravings that are getting in the way of our wellness, fitness and weight loss goals.
So, here’s the question we raised yesterday …
What is going on with the seemingly insolvable craving for the foods that make us fat?
What’s really going on here?
Do you find that you tend to eat simple carbohydrates more frequently when you are upset about something? How about when you’re under some stress and you feel nervous? Do you grab for something sweet at those times? What about when you’re bored? Same thing? Do you find that you can’t seem to find anything to eat if there isn’t anything sweet handy? Do you ever catch yourself eating some sweet goodie and realizing that you are doing it without complete realization?
What’s really going on here?
Here’s another quote from Jonni Good’s Website! that I want you to read while we work on this question:
We eat the simple carbohydrates because these “foods” make us feel better. If you think about that statement for just a second, you’ll understand how this next statement relates:
Heroin addicts use heroin because it makes them feel better.
We also continue to eat simple carbohydrates after we know they’re killing us, because it feels bad when we stop.
Heroin addicts go on using because it feels bad when they stop.
Substitute alcohol or cocaine or tobacco, or even gambling, in the statements above, and you’ll understand what I’m getting at.
There’s the answer to the question, isn’t it?
Sugar and the other simple carbohydrates are addictive! And they are even more addictive because they are readily available; they are relatively cheap, and (other than websites or blogs like this one) there are very few social pressures to give them up.)
And, that’s why Americans are so overweight. That’s why we have a crisis in this country with obesity and the number of people getting diagnosed with diabetes. That’s why we have so many people suffering with heart problems and cancer.
How do you conquer an addiction? How do we find the willpower to turn this addiction around and begin living a healthy lifestyle?
We have to increase our willpower. We have to learn how to look at a big piece of chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and say, “no thanks”. We have to learn how to shop differently and learn how to pass by those stacks and stacks of sugar-laden foods and find the smaller stacks of the more complex carbohydrate foods. We have to learn how to stop thinking things like, “Since that box of white pasta is 10-cents cheaper than the box of whole wheat pasta, I better save the money and get the cheaper one. It won’t matter — it’s still pasta!”
We have to learn how to do these things and feel good about them!
Here’s another quote from one of Jonni Good’s readers:
Jessie wrote this:
“Jonni, I wanted to write and let you know that I really learned a lot from your book. You really made me see that what I always thought of as a personal failing was really just my own natural human nature, trying to live in a world that doesn’t exist any more. I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an ongoing interest in general science, and your points seem valid and well researched to me.”
It’s about building a stronger willpower, so you can succeed.
How often have you started on a good diet and then, slowly but surely, found yourself right back on the old unhealthy lifestyle? You tried to fight it, but slipping back was easier than staying with it. You went back even though you really didn’t want to.
It is possible to fix that problem.
One way to do that is to go check out what Jonni Good has to say about it.
It is possible, and it isn’t rocket science.
Something has to be done — and something can be done.
Go here:
Click Here to Learn More at Jonni Good’s website!
Get started right away. You’ll learn it’s truly possible to change your body, by changing your mind, one teaspoon of sugar at a time!
One last quote from another Jonni Good reader:
From Faith (the first person to read the book after it was finished) wrote:
“Exactly what I needed. Most of us know what we should be eating. But I spend a lot of time running in circles unable to concentrate on decisions at hand. Jonni’s book showed me how to be in more control of my thoughts and make more conscious decisions about what I eat.”
Well, that’s a wrap for today. I’ll be back tomorrow and we’ll embark on even more ways to get healthy, fit and lose weight.
Until then, remember to follow a good-fat — good-carb diet and stay with your regular exercise.
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Have a great day. I’ll be back tomorrow with some more wellness, fitness and weight loss thoughts for you.
And give the South Beach Diet a try. That’s what I follow. Here’s where to go to learn more:
Shanti,
Ron
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