WHY YOU SUCK
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WEIGHT LOSS
Truth about Food Addiction
How your emotions make you Fat and how to get Thin
By: Robert Polsky
Copyright 2011 Robert Polsky
Published at Smashwords
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DISCLAIMER: This book is not intended to diagnose or cure any specific medical condition, though some health benefits may be observed. If the reader has medical concerns, he/she should seek competent medical advice.
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Contents
Painful emotions drive addictions
Why you (probably) Suck at Weight Loss
Lessons from The Buddha that aided my weight loss
Where do all these toxic emotional energies come from
How your feelings masquerade as hunger pains
Your plan for healing and transformation
What if slipping is not an option
Steps to calm your breath and transforming your life
3 steps to transforming a craving
Step one
Step two
Step three
There’s the oil (your fat)
There’s the container
There’s the wick
Dietary advice to get and stay lean
Chromium Picolinate-Glucose Tolerance Factor
Iodine
Stevia, Sweat Leaf
Changing your self-image.The new You!
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Why I sucked at weight loss
I sucked at weight loss because I was out of control! I was compulsive, when it came to food and a few other things, too!
I grew up a fat kid. I can recall being out with friends in junior high and wearing my blue jean jacket in mid-summer in order to cover my spare-tire. Of course, mothers didn't know then what many know today. Fried chicken or pork chops with mashed potatoes, gravy along with sugar sweetened iced tea and similar such entrées were common in our home. But it was not only the foods we ate, the entire platter was put on the table and it was normal to keep eating until there was no room left in the stomach.
My father was a compulsive overeater and I learned from him, firsthand. I had a belly by the time I was in grade school. And while poor and excessive eating habits will certainly cause one to gain weight, possibly to the point of becoming grossly obese, compulsive-hunger is another matter. Even when I began to learn about nutrition and healthy eating and became motivated to utilize all I had learned, I still found myself doing the very things I had vowed to myself not to do. Perhaps you can relate!
I most definitely had an addiction to simple carbohydrates. This would often manifest by eating chips and beer in the evening. Add to that an on-again off-again addiction to cigarettes. I would do well with my diet during the day, but when nighttime came I would often be back at the cigarettes, chips, dip and beer. It seems that matters of the Heart tend to show up more when we’re alone at night versus during the day when we are distracted by work and all the associated relationships. We will address this later in the section called Lessons learned from The Buddha.
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Painful emotions drive addictions
I certainly didn't know then what I know now. There were deep emotional factors operating in my subconscious that were causing inner pain and tension. It was manifesting itself in compulsive snacking. As I observed my behavior change after much practice with what I will be sharing with you in this book, I was also amazed to observe myself going hours without opening and standing in front of the fridge or pantry, foraging for food. One saves a lot of time that way, too!
Even though I have been fairly lean for most of my adult life, I still struggled with that spare tire and compulsive hunger. Even though I had done a tremendous amount of process work to heal from the other health issues I had been faced with, There was still something inside that was unresolved and would express itself through acting out in the form of addictive or compulsive behavior.
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Losing 30 pounds
Not so long ago a woman I had been seeing said something that revealed that she was not exactly turned on to my still persistent spare tire. Of course, I was always wanting and intending to be in my best possible shape but the struggle had continued. After this confirmation from this lovely woman, I went on a very austere diet for several months and lost about 30 pounds.
What do I mean by an austere diet? It means I only ate for nourishment and was not controlled by my taste buds or other compulsions that had nothing to do with true hunger. A few examples of the kinds of foods that were my Staples during this time would be: Raw veg of many sorts, cooked egg whites with vegetables, chicken breast, salmon, lentils and beans mixed with a small percentage of brown rice, the whites of hard-boiled eggs and sometimes the whole egg.
And having done a lot of the work with the tools I am presenting in this book, I found myself able to go hours in between meals without thinking about food or finding myself standing in front of the refrigerator and wondering how I got there.
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The Spiritual Heart
A Simple, yet profound truth that I have uncovered over the past few decades is that most of our physical, mental and emotional issues are associated with what the Buddhists or Tibetan Medicine refer to as the Spiritual Heart. So my journey has largely been about opening, dissolving, healing and purifying the Spiritual Heart. What I will be sharing with you in this book will help you to begin to purify your Spiritual Heart and thus dissolve, heal, release and transcend the unconscious emotions or feelings that drive all compulsive addictive behaviors.