The Tough Questions That No One Else Will Ask About Weight Loss and Dieting, Now Addressed in a Special Collection of Weight Loss Advice Columns
Detroit, MI (PRWeb) January 13, 2007 -- Your poor eating habits are your own fault -- how is that a good thing? How can their be a dark side to your weight loss progress? When does your weight loss support group actually begin to hurt you, rather than help you? A special collection of advice columns asks -- and answers -- all of these hard-hitting but important questions.
Writer and advice columnist Rachel Goren, whose columns have appeared on eDiets.com and iVillage.com, a special collection of which are now available in eBook format at www.weightlossbegins.com, says that all these tough questions about weight and dieting have one thing in common, and it has nothing to do with genetics or calories or metabolism. It has to do with what's going on in your mind and heart, the way you think about food and eating -- or if you give them much thought at all. The people that are successful with their weight loss program -- or who manage to stay in shape even without a program -- have learned to think properly about food and its place in their life, she asserts.
But if this is the case, why aren't the experts telling us this? Why are most diet books and programs only touting what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat, what to count, what to measure, what to record? Why do they rarely tell you how to think?
It's because, quite simply, most experts often don't know. They don't know what it's like to be obese, and for food to have such a stranglehold on you that it can truly be called an addiction. They don't know the thoughts running through your head when you indulge day after day, they don't know why a support group may actually be hurting you, not helping. They may have experienced some of these things, but rarely do they have the insight to realize the correlation between our thoughts and our waistlines -- much less be able to explain it to anyone else.
"Losing weight really does begin between the ears," says Goren. "If you don't have it 'right' in your mind and heart, nothing you try will make a difference." She continues, "Learning why taking responsibility is a good thing, learning how to put indulgences in their proper place, thinking seriously about why food is often first place in our minds, these are things that very few people talk about when they discuss weight loss. But all these topics should be addressed first, before anyone even attempts another diet or exercise program."
Goren's columns have included the topics, "It's Your Own Fault -- And That's a Good Thing," "What If We Shopped Like How We Ate?" "Get This -- Weight Loss is Easy!" and "The Dark Side of Progress," and have appeared on leading diet and weight loss web sites, including eDiets.com, iVillage.com, NaturalPhysiques.com and a host of others.
Goren's topics hit such a nerve with so many people that readers spontaneously began writing to her, asking advice on how to handle their weight loss plateau, why they make resolutions and fail to follow them for more than one day (if that), even on how to perform an "intervention" for friends that are gaining weight.
"Maybe one of the reasons they ask me is because they know I've been there," Goren says, referring to the fact that she herself once squeezed into a size 22 and topped the scales at over 235 pounds -- but managed to lose more than 75 pounds in less than two years, and keep it off for more than five (and counting), not by fad diets or surgery or dangerous pills, but by using the same techniques and mental training she encourages in her columns.
Now comfortable and healthy in a size 10, Goren has not lost her passion for writing about weight loss and maintenance. A special selection of her columns, aptly entitled "Weight Loss Begins Between the Ears," were compiled and are available online in instantly downloadable eBook format at www.weightlossbegins.com.
"It's a sensitive subject," Goren says, "trying to get into people minds and hearts, but once they do that, once they begin thinking differently, it's as if this dark cloud is lifted and they really begin to see permanent results regardless of what program they're following -- if they're even following a program. After all, that's what worked for me, and all I want is for other people to have a measure of the same success."
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