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What's on Your Shelves? The Answer Could Be Keeping You From Your Ideal
Body! By
Michael Collins
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Take a good look through your kitchen cabinets and see what's in there.
Do you have boxes of cookies and crackers? Get rid of them.
Got
anything in those cabinets that aren't going to support the journey to
your ideal body? Get rid of it.
Hey, who's kidding who? If it's in the house, you're going to eventually
eat it. Why tempt yourself with crappy food anyway?
I'll get back to the evils of the junk in the cabinets in a minute. Let
me tell you a quick story about a woman who had come in for a first
visit consultation.
She
was about 15- 20 pounds overweight, which unfortunately, is quite common
these days. What I found out through our conversation though, was a
shock.
"Mrs. Smith" as I'll call her here, had worked with 3 personal trainers
over the course of 5 years. Over that time she'd religiously trained 2-
3 times a week. She also had a pretty reasonable diet in place. Not
perfect, but not bad.
So,
to be so committed over the last 5 years, and be 15-20 pounds
overweight, she must have come down from 50 or 60 pounds overweight,
right? At least!
But
shockingly, this wasn't the case.
She was only about 20 pounds overweight when she started out!
You
don't need a calculator to figure out that she's lost maybe 5
pounds over the course of 5 years. This doesn't add up considering her
commitment to the diet and exercise. To put it bluntly, those are crappy
results. Something is flying below the radar, and it's not a thyroid
problem- she'd been checked several times.
So
I dug a little deeper.
It
turns out she likes to have a little snack at night after dinner, before
going to bed. You know, the "healthy stuff" like zero- fat crackers and
fat- free cookies.
Bingo!
If
you're an avid follower of MCNewsletters, you know what a
dieting- disaster
these snacks are.
When I told her to get rid of all the boxed cookies and crackers from
her cabinets, her face twisted and her head tilted. She looked at me and
said, “I can't do that” in a tone of voice that suggested I was
out of my mind. Like, now I had gone too far.
I
asked, “why not?”
“Well, I just went shopping and bought those things. Some of those boxes
I haven't even opened yet. I can't waste all that food”. The excuses
kept rolling.
This is self- sabotage thinking at it's finest. Is this really about
unopened boxes and wasting 15 or 20 dollars worth of junk food? Not at
all.
There is an emotional attachment to these foods. They are comfortable.
They relax you in times of stress. They taste good. That's why they're
so hard to stop eating- especially if they're right there on the shelves
in your cabinets.
So
what's the best way to deal with this situation?
Like removing a band aid-
Right Off!
Don't leave some lying around, “just in case”. They only feed
your need for more. By getting rid of it- “out of sight, out of mind”,
you gradually lose taste for these junk foods, eventually not craving
them at all.
After re- examining what she'd be missing out on if she didn't toss the
junk, she agreed to get rid of the stuff. We changed the meaning that
certain foods have for her, and we came up with a list of
better quality alternatives
that would keep her on track to lose those 15- 20 pounds.
After all, she was committed to losing the weight NOW. 5 years of
putting in the work with no reward was enough for her.
How
about donating those unopened boxes you have on your shelf to
charity? You don't need that stuff. As long as you're eating that junk,
you're going sabotage your efforts.
If
you're like most people and want a
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out for you, get the
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P.S. Are you running
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