Why Am I Fat? Weight Loss Tips
Diet & Weight Loss Tips for Burning Calories
Why Am I Fat?
I've always detested the words 'Fat' and 'Obese'. They are too-often used as verbal abuse these days. Overweight Bill and Underweight Urma might offend Onlooker Willie, yet Willie will be far more apt to call Overweight Bill, "Fat-Ass" rather than call Underweight Urma, "Skinny-Butt". It's the terrible code-of-society thing.
Musings aside, many overweight individuals often ask, "Why am I fat?"
Here are just a few things that might contribute to weight gain - things that we may not even associate with weight gain.
1. Ann eats like a bird yet she continues to gain weight. Why am I fat? she often asks.
If we look closely at Ann's daily diet, we see that she's choosing foods that are high in calories and fat - and it doesn't take much of these foods to pack on weight. A couple of jelly donuts for breakfast, a giant burrito for lunch and a serving of lasagna for dinner and three soft drinks throughout the day can tally up to over 2,000 calories - depending upon the size of the entrees and the recipes used.
2. The old gene pool. People whose families have a history of obesity can indeed be thin - but they have to work much harder than most to achieve and maintain a trimmer size.
3. Shorties tend to get hit hard when it comes to weight gain. The smaller body requires fewer calorie needs.
4. Weight gain that is accumulated as we grow older is often confused with a slow metabolism. Fact is, as we grow older, our activity level slowly fades, thus triggering slow weight gain.
5. Although we may do well to count our meal-time calories, we often forget about calories associated with candy jars, cookie jars, a bite here, and a bite there; a beverage here and a beverage there. Spontaneous splurges can add up to big calories.
Psychological Eating
Everything is just fine, then a heavenly aroma escapes into the air and Dieter Phil glances down at his pants and begins to fish around.....
Darn - no spare change and he's going nuts to have a container of that hot buttered popcorn that's popping inside of the movie theater.
Like Phil, just the smell of hot buttered popcorn can set our cravings in motion. The appetite is a strange thing, isn't it? In fact, most of the time that we eat, our appetite it set off by the smell of food OR the thought of food.
Psychological Eating vs True Appetite.
The next time that you find you're famished, try to determine if something triggered a false sense of hunger - or if you are truly hungry. Might save you several pounds for your efforts, too!
It's a good thing that we enjoy eating - because if we didn't enjoy eating, we'd surely die. On the other hand, when we enjoy eating a lot, we surely dieT. Funny how one little letter can make all the difference, isn't it?
Sort of like that one little donut, one little burrito, one little pizza, one little carton of ice cream.......
It Doesn't Matter How Much I Eat
Individuals that simply give up and trick themselves into believing it really doesn't matter how much they eat eventually discover that yes, it does matter how much they eat. This trait is very common among overweight individuals. It's easy for one to think that they are lost in space - that additional pounds just won't catch up with them.
But unfortunately, they do.
Ignoring those blaring horns that are desperately trying to warn the individual, "You are eating too much," often go ignored for years on end. And as time goes by, pounds continue to pack on until in many cases, the individual gains so much weight that they feel it's an impossibility to ever get the weight off.
If this cycle rings a familiar tune, I hope that you'll take a hard look at your daily diet, as well as your activity level. I don't want you to gain over 100 pounds like I did before you do something about it. Although I got all the weight off, and have kept it off for almost a decade now, I went through a lot of emotional and physical discomfort before losing the weight.
And believe me - it's something that you can live without. Grab the lifeline - reach for Weight Loss Success! I'll help you all that I can by keeping you motivated by continuing to provide tips and weight loss suggestions at Thin Thin. ~ Sky
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