Monday, October 12, 2009

Does your body want to be fat?

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“Your Body Wants to be fat anytime it decides that being fat is safe” Jon Gabriel, The Gabriel Method

A friend turned me on The Gabriel Method a few weeks ago and it really resonated with me and my philosophy on health. So why would being fat be safe? It’s not! But as I have said, your health, physically is an expression of how you feel, think, and view the world around you. Well not exactly you, your body.

“Your body doesn’t understand today’s world.”

We evolved to protect ourselves under stress, and we evolved in a time when the major stressors were “starvation, freezing, being eaten.” It’s pretty simple, in any of these survival modes, the body wants to hold on to as much energy as possible. More fat= live longer and stay warmer. Too much fat= get eaten and the perfect amount of fat= live longer, stay warmer, and don’t get eaten.

Our bodies can’t tell the difference between, “I feel overwhelmed with work, family, and trying to fit in everything else” and “I haven’t found any food in 2 days.” Think about the last time you were under an immense amount of emotional stress…. Did you feel bloated, did you gain weight? I see this in clients all the time under too much stress: the inability to lose weight and often times the accumulation of weight in the belly.

I love this book because it delves into so much of the emotional and spiritual elements that are part of gaining healthy habits. Gabriel talks about mental starvation fear of scarcity, emotional obesity, and dysfunctional beliefs: all issues that one needs to consider when looking at their “Fit attitude” as I like to call it.

So I challenge you this week to discover what your “Fit Attitude” is? Do you need to think more about the points Gabriel brings up in his book? If you do, you need support. Don't wait, find it now. The quickest way to change is to look for it and welcome it. Now think about this last thought:

“Be Open to the Possibility that your body is changing”

Are you?

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