Recently I saw a post about New Year’s Resolutions and weight loss. One of the solutions was to starve yourself. It makes my blood boil when I see that!

It is wrong on some many levels because there are so many reasons why you cannot lose weight which need to be considered. Over the next little while I will talk about some of them. I would love your input as well.

So, you want to lose weight? And you think you should starve yourself! (Personally, I call it depriving or being mean or disrespectful to self!)

Do you think you will be able to starve yourself for long?

I know I would not! Soon I would be looking in the cupboards for that chocolate bar, or that junk food, or whatever else I could get my hands on. Not to mention, I would be ready to bite someone’s head off, usually my partner or my son.

How about you? Is this you? Feeling depressed, not enjoying your food?

Or this? Longing for the meat, flavor, fat, yet knowing you need to lose weight and the best way is to eat salad?

Or this? I can’t take it anymore, I have to have that donut/those fries, then feeling quilty?

Or maybe this? Don’t come any closer, I will bite your head off or throw flames at you?

Is that fair to yourself? Is it fair to others that live with you? Are you doing yourself a favor?

No!

Because who is their right mind wants to feel deprived or starved? Not me! How about you?

And one more issue about starving yourself? If your body thinks it is being starved, it goes into protection mode. What is that you ask? It literally slows down how much food it will use and begins to store it as fat – meaning – it becomes very hard to lose weight!

Look familiar? Do I have your attention? Let’s go on a journey together – a lifestyle journey! One that you will be on for the rest of your life: that will give you health, energy, great moods, a love of life – if you want it?  

Are you in?

I would love to hear your thoughts…..