Wouldn?t you like to learn how to loose weight and maintain your ideal weight for the rest of your life without effort?
My single best tip to you is to stop looking for the perfect diet now and look at your life. This is a true holistic approach to weight loss.
After all, what we consider today as nutrition is really just a secondary source of energy. Let?s address what all those perfect diet don?t talk about, a concept called Primary Food.
Think about it for a moment.
Remember a time when you were passionately in love. Your life took another dimension. Everything was exciting. You forgot about food and were high on love and life.
Do you remember a time you were intensely involved in a project? You felt stimulated and excited. Time stopped and you forgot to eat.
What about children?
They live on primary food. They play outside and don?t want to come diner. They don?t want to go to bed at night and they get up excited in the morning. They don?t want to miss anything. They are high on life, not on food. They are fed by excitement, play, and adventure.
While studying at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, I?ve learned that primary foods don?t come on a plate but feed us as much. Play, fun, romance, intimacy, touch, love, adventure, achievement, to name just a few, are primordial source of nourishment. They feed our soul.
Here are 4 questions that will determine how balanced and fulfilling are your primary foods.
- Are your relationships healthy and nourishing?
- Are you creating a work that you love and are excited about?
- Are you enjoying regular physical activity?
- Do you have a spiritual practice that fills you, quiets your mind, relaxes your body and/or brings you a sense of peace?
Are your primary foods balanced and fulfilling?
If so, your life feeds you, making what you eat secondary.
If not, you will tend to use secondary food as a way to compensate your lack of primary food. You will stuff yourself with secondary foods while you are truly starving for primary food.
Weight gain is one of the consequences.
I encourage you to stop looking for the perfect diet and start looking at your relationships, your work, your physical activity, and your spirituality. Secondary food, the food you eat, is certainly critical for health and happiness. However, it is these four sources of primary food that feed your soul, nourish you and will make your life passionate.
You won?t even need to think about weight loss anymore!
Cathy Vignola (cathyshealthtips.com) is a staunch advocate for healthy living and an energized, productive lifestyle. Whether it's finding the healthy diet right for you or which beneficial energy boosting supplements are the most effective, Cathy's sound advice will help you make the right decisions in your body's nourishment. As a certified Holistic Health Counselor accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) she has the qualification to make proper suggestion on virtually anything plaguing your body's productivity. | |
