Weight Loss Addictions

With the percentage of overweight people increasing
throughout the world, one has to think that their have to be
more variables in play than just “fast food”. The world is
hustling and with the advent of computers and the internet,
the hustling is more informational and mental than physical.
So, if the majority of us are trying to lose weight in some
form or another, the main question we need to ask ourselves
is “Are we addicted to our lifestyles?”

Bad Habits or Lifestyle Addiction

If you are reading this right now, there is a huge chance
that you are overweight. After all, studies show that 64.5%
of Americans fall into the overweight category. (F as in
Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2005)

Here are a few questions you need to ask yourself:

• Have you been trying to lose weight but seem to keep
falling into the same rut?

• Do you constantly tell yourself that you need to lose
weight but just can’t get around to it?

• Have you thought about losing weight, but keep telling
yourself that it’s not a big deal?

• Do you ever lie to yourself and think that people should
love you for you and not because of how big you are?

The funny thing is that no one saying yes to only a few of
these questions. It’s either all or none. If you’ve said
yes, congratulations: you’re addicted to your lifestyle!

Lifestyle addiction explained

Have you ever seen a drug addict or are you familiar with a
person with an alcohol problem? Have you seen their
struggles?

These people have huge problems getting away from those
drugs. They need support networks and strong councelling
just to make it through the day.

Now, of course, these are very strong physical dependencies.
A lifestyle addiction would be classified as a psychological
dependency. If would compare to “needing” your husband or
wife when they leave you.

You know that you shouldn’t care and that you should just
let go…but you can’t…and you can’t figure out why. Losing
weight can, and often does, fall into this same category.
Let’s say that you’ve been on an exercise and diet plan for
3 days but you break your plan on the third day. A drug
addict would call that a relapse, right? You can see where I
am going with this.

The Justification of a Lifestyle Addition

Let’s classify an addiction using these assumptions:

• An addiction is something that you don’t see as a problem,
yet you get angry when someone else says it is (Doc says,
“Hey Bob, you need to drop 20 pounds.)

• An addiction is a “rut” that you can’t get out of (I just
don’t have time)

• An addiction is something that harms you in the long run,
but is satisfying in the short run (Oh, that chocolate cake
looks so good)

• An addiction is a problem that you can’t change because of
“willpower”. (I just can’t seen to get motivated)

• An addiction is something that’s “too tough” to change
(Twenty pounds, I’ll NEVER be able to lose that much)

Face it. If you need to lose weight, but just can’t take the
time to get around to it, you are addicted to your
lifestyle. It’s an ugly way to look at it. After all, who
wants to be grouped in the same group as crack addicts,
alcoholics, psycho boyfriends, and the such.

No one. But the premise is still the same. The ugly truth is
still here no matter whose glasses you look at the world
through.

Losing weight is a serious matter and it is about time you
look at it that way. The shear fact that you might be having
trouble doing it just reinforces this even more. Look, it’s
your life and your journey.

Don’t lie to yourself anymore. If a doctor told you that you
would die tomorrow if you didn’t get in at least 30 minutes
of exercise today, would you go about your day and ignore
the doctor (because he/she OBVIOUSLY doesn’t know what
he/she is talking about) or would you immediately rearrange
your day and find a way to get it done?

Think about all of the above definitions before you answer.
I’d like to think you’d get off your butt and do something.
After all…in this particular case…it’s do or die.

So…what are you going to do?

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