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So what?s the problem?
-Oh, first let me introduce myself. My name is Jon Alan. Once upon a time I was 70 pounds overweight. This was intentional of course since I never ate anything by accident. Now, I do have a buddy who sleepwalks. One morning he woke up with chocolate crumbs on his face. Meanwhile, his roommate was wondering what had happened to his entire box of Oreo cookies.
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If you want a healthy body you can forget about dieting. You must change your lifestyle. Relax, this does not mean that you are going to have to spend an hour a day on the stair master. You don?t have to disown your friends, move to a cabin in the mountains to eat only cabbage soup and drink sixteen glasses of mineral water a day. So where do you start?
Well, first you have to understand where you already are.
When I lost my weight, all my friends and co-workers who wanted to lose weight were all asking me how I did it. Now at first I actually thought they were asking for advice. But do you know what advice really is?
Advice is something that we ask for when we know the answer already but wish we didn?t. You see, most of the time asking for advice is actually the first step in confronting denial. We are looking for someone else to confirm to us what we already know ourselves. So what did these friends of mine already know?
They knew that their weight was not the problem.
The problem?
A lifestyle of addiction.
That?s right. Denial is the first symptom of any addiction. Now we don?t like to use that word in relation to food. We don?t look at someone who is overweight as an addict do we?
Of course not
We see addicts as poor unfortunate souls who are in desperate need of intervention. Degenerates ensnared in the underbelly of life, enslaved by the substances they abuse. We see them as people in great pain, emotionally physically and spiritually. But this is not the case.
Having spent over ten years addicted to alcohol let me offer some insight:
?People who abuse substances don?t do it because they can?t help it.?
That?s right. As far as they are concerned they aren?t abusing anything. As an addict you keep the pain of addiction guarded beneath a warm blanket of denial. The only way to do this is to build a lifestyle which justifies the addiction. Maybe you?ve seen the t-shirt that says: ?I don?t have a drinking problem, I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem!?
Now it sounds funny but it?s true. Sure I used to eat until I felt like a boa constrictor that had swallowed a buffalo. Sure I was three times more at risk for heart disease at the age of 27 than I am today at the age of 33. But, I didn?t think I was abusing food. Food and I were getting along just fine! That was the problem!
So what is the real issue?
The issue is that beneath every behavior which causes a person to be overweight, there are well-crafted rationalizations. These rationalizations are what give way to a lifestyle of substance abuse. In fact they are more dangerous than the substances themselves.
Food is not the problem. Being overweight is not the problem either. These are symptoms. The problem is lifestyle. Beginning with this in mind will empower you to see possibilities for change beyond the conventional wisdom of dieting.
See part II for the continuation
