All right...LET'S GET SERIOUS!
After months and months of agonizing over privation diets, calorie-counting, weighing minute portions and Lilliputian size "meals"...
...In a Restaurant..did you ever sneak furtive looks at ‘forbidden’ foods you longingly spy on some lucky body’s plate sitting at the next table?..It’s one of your favorite dishes and you could just kill for a taste of it…True?...
How many times have you walked around famished and gone to bed feeling so hungry ? Aren’t such episodes sheer torture?
Have you ever struggled with your will power… anxiously trying to find some semblance of that comforting..full...or even a tolerable feeling of barely being satified...but then...you get plagued by the repeat, constant visits of those nagging cravings and the pinch of sharp hunger pangs?..
These are major forces which lead to binge eating and gorging yourself whenever you become emotional and "just can’t cope anymore"...throw in the towel and jump off that wagon...
This “eating disorder” syndrome behavior is just like many other substance abusers would do under like circumstances...and, to boot, even if you have also suffered the aches and pains of strenuous, backbreaking exercises, added angers set in...After which, you may find yourself regaining all the lost pounds, and more, of fat, fluid and flab for which you sacrificed and paid so much to "lose"!
I’m sure that you heard this before as well: "Diets DON’T Work!" (and, if/when they DO, at first, they simply DON’T LAST…they remind me of unstable relationships and so many shaky marriages)…yet, they keep the desperate.. befuddled..frustrated "sheep" coming back for more.. "trying" one Diet plan or pill or patch after another…and only their wallet gets thinner!..
Joe E. Lewis said it best: "I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating and, in fourteen days, I had lost two weeks!"…
The worst part of this yo-yo..revolving door.. rollercoaster.. costly exercise in futility is that you don’t even earn a purple heart or medal of honor.. or mere public recognition and praise for having been a martyr..a hero.. a veteran of this hopeless version of the (in)famous Battle of the Bulge!
So, a great many "Xtra-Xtra Large" size wearers start shopping around for a "quick fix"... "Anything to get all those naggers and wise guys off my big back!”…and, after some investigations...hear about some ‘magic’ way to get thin..simply by listening to some affordable music tape with inaudible subliminal messages ("it really works", they say.)
Well..it sounds good (pardon the pun)…about which Woody Allen said : "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted"
NOT to "knock the competition" by any means…but as genuinely conscientious, honest, ethical and concerned Professionals, we felt obligated to caution the possibly uninformed, and a bit naïve amongst you to avoid being emotionally driven, motivated by despair to "high dive into that pool on sheer adrenalin...then, on the way down, noticed in horror that there is very little or no water at the bottom !"
Fortunately for you..if the worst thing that happens to you in this case is money down the drain. You would be getting off cheap if you come out of this tourbillion in relative good health..
...In a Restaurant..did you ever sneak furtive looks at ‘forbidden’ foods you longingly spy on some lucky body’s plate sitting at the next table?..It’s one of your favorite dishes and you could just kill for a taste of it…True?...
How many times have you walked around famished and gone to bed feeling so hungry ? Aren’t such episodes sheer torture?
Have you ever struggled with your will power… anxiously trying to find some semblance of that comforting..full...or even a tolerable feeling of barely being satified...but then...you get plagued by the repeat, constant visits of those nagging cravings and the pinch of sharp hunger pangs?..
These are major forces which lead to binge eating and gorging yourself whenever you become emotional and "just can’t cope anymore"...throw in the towel and jump off that wagon...
This “eating disorder” syndrome behavior is just like many other substance abusers would do under like circumstances...and, to boot, even if you have also suffered the aches and pains of strenuous, backbreaking exercises, added angers set in...After which, you may find yourself regaining all the lost pounds, and more, of fat, fluid and flab for which you sacrificed and paid so much to "lose"!
I’m sure that you heard this before as well: "Diets DON’T Work!" (and, if/when they DO, at first, they simply DON’T LAST…they remind me of unstable relationships and so many shaky marriages)…yet, they keep the desperate.. befuddled..frustrated "sheep" coming back for more.. "trying" one Diet plan or pill or patch after another…and only their wallet gets thinner!..
Joe E. Lewis said it best: "I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating and, in fourteen days, I had lost two weeks!"…
The worst part of this yo-yo..revolving door.. rollercoaster.. costly exercise in futility is that you don’t even earn a purple heart or medal of honor.. or mere public recognition and praise for having been a martyr..a hero.. a veteran of this hopeless version of the (in)famous Battle of the Bulge!
So, a great many "Xtra-Xtra Large" size wearers start shopping around for a "quick fix"... "Anything to get all those naggers and wise guys off my big back!”…and, after some investigations...hear about some ‘magic’ way to get thin..simply by listening to some affordable music tape with inaudible subliminal messages ("it really works", they say.)
Well..it sounds good (pardon the pun)…about which Woody Allen said : "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted"
NOT to "knock the competition" by any means…but as genuinely conscientious, honest, ethical and concerned Professionals, we felt obligated to caution the possibly uninformed, and a bit naïve amongst you to avoid being emotionally driven, motivated by despair to "high dive into that pool on sheer adrenalin...then, on the way down, noticed in horror that there is very little or no water at the bottom !"
Fortunately for you..if the worst thing that happens to you in this case is money down the drain. You would be getting off cheap if you come out of this tourbillion in relative good health..
posted by Jacques Girard, Ph.D. at 11:06 AM
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