Why You Suck at Weight Loss

by Polsky, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781468088502
• ISBN10: 1468088505
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-21
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

How many times have you tried to lose weight and failed? Isn't it time you got to the root of the problem? There are multiple variables can influence your ability to lose weight and maintain your ideal body. Perhaps the most obvious factor is your ability to exercise self control when it comes to food and drink. Robert Polsky takes you along with him on his journey to discovering the roots and causes of his life long struggle with weight/flab control. He was in a meditation retreat in SE Asia, when he finally made the connection between emotions that he had been largely unaware of and his compulsiveness around eating. Robert realized that the almost constant hunger pains were, in fact, false hunger pains. The book reveals why you have probably failed in the past and how to finally get control and take control. Doesn't it make sense that if what you have been doing in the past hasn't resolved your over eating, then you may need to look deep inside for the answer and the solution? This book guides you to do just that.The practices revealed in this book will not only help you to finally get control of your weight, they can also result in improved mental, physical and emotional health and fitness. It is a book about healing and transformation. Having studied alternative and natural healing modalities for nearly 30 year, this book is a distillation of the most effective methods of effecting healing and transformation. This results in your increased self-awareness and self-control. The sincere implementation of the teachings in this book will also result in a greater sense of peace and calm in your life. Perhaps greater than you have ever previously experienced. Don't you owe it to yourself to investigate further? Following is a partial list of topics addressed in the book:* Childhood eating habits* Compulsive hunger and food addiction * Addiction to simple carbs * Painful emotions drive addictions * How we are driven by what is unconscious within us * Are you fatter than you think? * Social pressure * Who decides what foods to bring into your home?* Lessons from The Buddha that aided in my weight loss * Detaching eating from loneliness and boredom* Pleasure vs. joy * Your Emotional Pain Body * How your feelings masquerade as hunger pains* Your plan for healing and transformation* Awareness of bodily sensations* Awareness of breathing * 3 steps to transforming a craving * Dietary advice to get and stay lean * Changing your self-image. The new you!Can you name which emotions cause you to eat in a way that has nothing to do with true hunger and the need for nourishment?