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For people who’ve in no way struggled with their weight, the path to weight reduction seems basic. Diet! Exercise!

People who have never struggled with excess weight have it all backwards. It is not their fault — they’ve just been listening towards the standard media misinformation we all hear.

Thin people just love to tell us to just diet and exercise, further reinforcing feelings of frustration and guilt.

Actually, those of us who have lost large amounts of weight permanently, know greater!

Highly restricted diets backfire with hunger, cravings, and feelings of deprivation. Exercising too a lot depletes the body of its energy, nutrients and often leads to injury.

All the evidence on long-term fat loss says the path to permanent weight loss can be a reasonable approach combined with consistency.

But what about the word “consistency”?

Why is it so hard to be consistent with healthy consuming and activity?

The answer is the “s” word: “sabotage.”

Sabotage is the way we all get in our own way. It’s also the route back where we came from — living with too considerably fat on our bodies.

Weight loss is complicated and often frustrating. That’s because it isn’t just physical. It is not just diet and exercise. It’s also mental, emotional and spiritual. It’s a complicated maze of decision-making, conditioned thought, consuming patterns and emotional demands.

On top of it all, we’re encouraged to overthink the situation by the proliferation of ill-informed media around the topic, further complicating it!

A lot of food behavior runs really deep in our lives and psyches. If we try to simply change food behaviors with out changing the underlying thought processes, it works for a short time only.

Then, our own mind sabotages us and we revert to old behaviors during times of stress, non-mindfulness and emotion.

That’s the only thing in between what you want and what you’ve got in life. That is true, regardless of what the goal or dream is. We tend to sabotage ourselves with our limited beliefs and with attitudes we learned at a young age.

For instance, should you think “food = love” and you’ve been living that equation for a lot of years, you’ve no doubt received excellent comfort from food. Deep down, you won’t let go of that “source of love and comfort” with out some real, conscious effort.

The sabotage happens when we revert to “food = love” in times of stress or difficulty in our lives, or when we’re bored or progress slows.

Although it’s understandable to hold onto that source of comfort, real freedom comes with an alternate source of feeling loved, one that doesn’t impair your well being or self-esteem.

When old thinking patterns have brought excess weight into your life, it will take a new way of thinking to banish it forever. But we all deserve to be free of addictive behaviors with food, along with the negative feelings that go along with those behaviors.