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Health & Fitness

Food Making You Fat?

Both how you think about your body and the foods you eat play a huge part in what you crave (focusing on fat causes unconscious "fat choices") as well as how your body responds to what you eat.

In this video I talk about how most people that believe their eating is their biggest issue holding them back from losing weight don't realize that their eating habits are usually in direct correlation with their focus. Since most people on a diet or eating plan are doing so to change the body they don't like they are focused more dominantly on where they are (and with a lot of negative emotion) than where they want to go. Focusing on the fat you want to get rid of causes your brain and body to crave things to support being fat. On top of that, the foods that most people are taught are bad for them is not coming from their own experience. When you pay attention to how you feel after you eat foods you will know more than anyone else can tell you (that is, if you can not feel bad or guilty about what you have eaten). Your body is giving you feedback all the time--use it!!

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