The last post was filled with a little venom and a lot of truth. That is what I’m about…truth. The truth will set you free.
I’m not only built for telling you the truth about fat, the reasons for fat, and the stupidity that brings us to become fat. I am about helping you find that truth in you. Very seldom do we take a gaze inside to see what’s really wrong. We make excuses for how we became fat. It goes something like, “I’m too busy to workout”, “My husband loves me just the way I am”, “I had 3 kids, I’ll never be the same size I was when I was twenty”. This is not reality. It may be a reality with in your own head but it isn’t reality. If you take the time to look within yourself you will eventually see that you have made your life so busy, so complicated and so crazy to avoid telling yourself the truth. That truth is based in fear.
Don’t Let Fear Rule
Fear rules our world. Bosses use fear tactics to increase productivity. Children use fear tactics for your love. Husbands use fear tactics to keep you home. Before you know it, in your own environment fear runs rampant. The economy sucks…will I lose my job? Obama got elected… will he do a good job? Will I make the mortgage this month? You ask yourself all these questions with panic in your heart, but never do you ask… How am I today? What have I done for myself today?
The truth is once you look deep inside your brain…not your heart…you will find that you are doing everything for everyone else. You are looking for their approval in some way and you are afraid to not have their approval. It’s hard to look within and face your truth. Believe me, I had to many times. Even a tough guy like myself had plenty of fears. I won’t bore you with all of them right now but feel confident in knowing that you are definitely not alone.
Take a Step Back
Do yourself a favor and step back from your life for a weekend. Take a vacation for one. This means no spouses…no children…no parents…no friends…no pets…no alcohol…no people that you actually know at all. Complete solitude. This itself might scare the shit out of you because your greatest fear may be that you don’t like being in your own skin, but that’s the point. Face your fears, know your fears and create a plan to conquer your fears. The problem is you can’t do the third one without having done the first two.
I have found that to lose weight fast you only have to face the fears that don’t involve the symptom of fat. Taking fat out of the equation will give you the freedom to pursue what is really causing you to become fat. Once you have created a “fear free” environment the fat falls away like the fears that imprisoned you. Upon completion of your little weekend of solitude you may find yourself facing your greatest fears. Whether that is leaving your spouse, quitting your job, taking up volunteer work, being a better parent or caring more for a loved one.
Either way, once those fears have been exposed you will have the power to achieve whatever you set out to do. If that goal is losing weight, then I promise it will come much easier and without as much pain as you feared it would. So go for it, I promise, the truth will set you free.