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    No Pain Weight Loss: How to Lose Weight Without Suffering
    No Pain Weight Loss: How to Lose Weight Without Suffering
    No Pain Weight Loss: How to Lose Weight Without Suffering
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    No Pain Weight Loss: How to Lose Weight Without Suffering

    By Rebecca Flanagan

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    This essential guide to weight loss features psychological quizzes and easy to follow tips that will have you back on the road to your ideal weight in no time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRebecca Flanagan
    Release dateJul 13, 2012
    No Pain Weight Loss: How to Lose Weight Without Suffering

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      Book preview

      No Pain Weight Loss - Rebecca Flanagan

      NO PAIN WEIGHT LOSS: HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT WITHOUT SUFFERING

      By

      Rebecca Flanagan

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      Rebecca Flanagan on Smashwords

      No Pain Weight Loss: How to Lose Weight without Suffering

      Copyright © 2012 by Rebecca Flanagan

      Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      Adult Reading Material

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      NO PAIN WEIGHT LOSS: HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT WITHOUT SUFFERING

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      Chapter 1

      Why We Get Fat

      I get fat because I have a low metabolism; I get fat because I can’t consistently follow a diet; I get fat because I really enjoy eating. We use excuses like these to explain our tendency towards weight gain. They are veils we use to hide a truth that is hard to accept: getting fat is primarily a matter of mental control. Only 15 percent of those who are overweight have inherited a genetic tendency towards weight gain. Diet inconsistency and gluttony are certainly part of the problem, but not the main cause. We put on extra pounds because we use food as filler, a stopgap, a surrogate solution to fill emptiness, uncertainties, and dissatisfactions.

      Anna Maria, a 40 year-old woman, wrote me a beautiful and exciting letter that summarizes in a nutshell her suffering. I'm not happy. I live a life in which I do not feel satisfied. I can’t even remember the last time I really laughed from the heart or even enjoyed myself. Sometimes I laugh for others, but it’s just a mask I wear: I don’t really feel anymore. My only refuge is food. There and only there, I find satisfaction. It may sound bitter, but it’s the truth.

      The moment our existence loses its taste, when we live without joy or when we are prey to insecurity, disrespect or lack of affection, we resort to food: an easy drug, always available, legal and with reliable effects. Aren’t some chocolate kisses sweeter even than our mother’s kisses?

      Food has enormous power, gives us answers, tranquility, trust, security, courage. But these are all short-term gratifications. The time always arrives when these same gratifications become the problem. We saturate the stomach rather than satisfy our need for pleasure or excitement. It becomes a dangerous spiral, difficult to escape from: I don’t like myself or I’m not happy, so I try to anaesthetize myself by eating, but in doing so I get fat and like myself even less and become even more miserable, so then I eat more ... .

      And in comes in the obsession with dieting. Those who tend to get fat live with an inner voice that repeats: Today you have to stay in control, only eat one portion, skip the second helpings. It is this punishing voice that judges us and does not register that we continue to fail: our good intentions are disregarded, we breach the rules every single day (ice cream, chocolate ...), as if we rebel from that inner voice that wants to control our food choices. And so the vicious circle is completed: the voice warns us, we fail, she judges us, and the inner struggle continues. The whole process is sterile, futile and frustrating.

      To focus on the real problem, we need to rebel! From who? you ask. From this inner voice that makes us believe that, if only we were skinny, we’d be perfect. From the voice that wants us to concentrate all our attention on the effort to get in shape. Woe if we wake up in the morning worrying that we can’t achieve this goal! Woe to fight against ourselves!

      The first step of getting rid of the craving for food is to silence this judgmental voice. Being overweight should not become an obsession, but it should ring a warning bell. Before you throw yourself into the umpteenth low-calorie diet, ask yourself what the real cause of your problem is. What emptiness are you trying to fill through excessive eating? What emotional hunger lies behind your continuing appetite for food?

      Many times we use dietary excesses

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