If you want to be skinny you must put fat high on your list

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by Michelle Wilkinson

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• Created on: June 05, 2009

In a society where it is deemed desirable to be skinny it is little wonder that so many people obsess about their size and weight. At the same time as trying to remain or become slim people face many temptations which make maintaining their weight goals extremely challenging – there are many calorific foods out there which provide little nutrition but taste good, whilst portion sizes have increased substantially over the years. Stress is a problem faced by many people which can impact upon their weight, as they reach for comfort food. Also most people are not as active as they should be which can obviously lead to weight gain if they are not burning off all the calories they consume.Weight loss requires you to make significant changes to your lifestyle, and can become your whole focus if you don’t keep the process of losing weight in perspective.

It is particularly difficult to focus on anything other than your weight when you are following a fad diet. Faddiets are generally based on restrictive eating practices, and so you will constantly be thinking about what you can and cannot eat. Also, because you consume so few calories on such a diet you will be constantly hungry, lethargic, and irritable, and the only thing keeping you going will be the thought of stepping on the scales to see a hugeweight loss or finding that your trousers have grown too big for you. Therefore your whole day is framed around when you next get to eat and what you are allowed to eat and what the results will be for your waistline at the end of the day.

Even simply incorporating healthier lifestyle habits in order to lose weight can lead you to become obsessive, though maybe not as much as in the case of fad diets. You will probably make a note of all the foods that you eat, and start to examine the nutritional content of everything you put in your mouth so that you know how many calories everything contains. The chances are that you will plan your meals in advance so that you can stay in control of everything you eat, and rather than grazing on food all day you will have set meal times, which means you might constantly be thinking about the next time you get to eat.

Weight loss can take over your life as whether you feel good or bad about yourself can depend on what the number reads on the scales. If you don’t lose any weight you might be tempted to give up following a healthier diet, if you are taking a sensible approach to weight loss in the first place, and thus sabotage all your weight-loss efforts by seeking solace in comfort food. Even then, though, you can’t get your weight out of you head, and simply end up feeling guilty and preparing yourself to start again next week. Sometimes you find that exercise can release you of some of the guilt but actually become obsessed with exercising every day so that you can eat more.

It is therefore important for people to find a balance in their lives so that weight loss isn’t always at the forefront of their minds, since weight loss should be about re-establishing control over your weight; not letting your obsession with your weight control you.

Learn more about this author, Michelle Wilkinson.