Weight Loss: The Doom Cycle Uncovered

…but there is a way to beat it

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I have been troubled by my weight for 98.2% of my adult life. Yes, I did the math. Between the ages of 18 and 46 there have only been 6 months when I have lived at a genuinely healthy (and happy) weight.

Perhaps you are the same. Maybe for you, like me, getting to and staying at a healthy weight is something that you’ve just never managed to crack.

And it gnaws away at you.

One thing that comes with thinking about one subject for a very long time is insight. Slowly things dawn on you.

In the back of your mind, patterns get analyzed, cogs turn and suddenly, when you least expect it, a golden nugget of realization can appear.

This happened to me recently.

And I want to share what I discovered, because it has been immediately useful to me. I hope it can help you too.

Trapped

Let me give you the short story of my weight “journey”. Chubby as a kid, I had picked up from somewhere the idea that you can eat your feelings. Sad? Have an ice cream to cheer up. Something to celebrate? Here’s a cake.

I was never huge. I was always solidly in the overweight category and sometimes tipped into obese. But, I…