We spend a lot of time and effort to make ourselves look good and feel good mostly for the benefit of getting others to approve of us. But have we ever pause and ask ourselves if we would approve ourselves? This question is actually about our self esteem and self confidence that we have in ourselves. If we do not have self esteem or self confidence with ourselves, we can actually find the root causes of many of our problems stemming from these two factors. Studies had shown that people with higher self esteem generally fare better with their health that those with low self esteem.
You will find that people with high esteem usually have better health than those with low self esteem. The main reason is because when you have low self esteem, you are more prone to depressive mood swings and when that happened, you find yourself eating more. And naturally when you eat more than you should, you will start gaining weight. This is true for the majority of the population.
Recent studies conducted on a group of high school girls goes to show the validity of the above hypothesis. The girls were asked to rate themselves from a scale of one to ten regarding their "happiness" level. From the empirical studies, it was shown that those with a lower rating gained more weight within 2 years of the others.
As you observed, from the studies,how good you feel will have an impact at the end on how much weight you will gain or lost.
It is important that you treat and pamper yourself from time to time. I am not asking you stop helping others and become self-centered. In fact, helping others is a good thing, but can you remember when was the last time you helped YOURSELF to something! Maybe you like to eat at a certain top restaurant. When was the last time you visited that restaurant? Maybe you love fishing. When was the last time you went for fishing? Maybe you love badminton, but have you ever played the game in the last few months?
Too many times, we wrap ourselves so much with the thoughts of others than we often forget about ourselves; we often forget that we too have a life of our own just like others, and it is important to help ourselves just as we help others!
Time, nowadays seems to be an extremely precious commodity. In fact these days we can never find enough time even for eating properly. We end up grabbing a "quick bite" from the fast food restaurants so that we can "save" those precious minutes. But when you stop to think about it, it is these "quick bites" junk foods that are the main reasons why so many people are obese today. So make a small change by finding some time to have a proper meal. If you do not learn to love yourself, who will? I lost 40 lbs in 3 months with extreme dieting measures that almost destroyed my health. Spicy food + lots of milk that lead to serious diarrhea every day. I've been doing a bit of research after my dramatic weight loss experience and found that there's actually a PROGRAM designed to do what I attempted, except its basically more healthier and effective.
You can find that specific program at Weight Loss Insider. I recommend you take a look at this Fitness Model Program and see what they have to say about what you should do to lose 40lbs in 3 months healthily!
