Author: Shane Cuthbert
Publisher: Shane Cuthbert
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 53

Get Book

Book Description
For those of you unfamiliar with the analogy of the frog in the saucepan, let me fill you in. If you take a frog and place it into a saucepan of boiling water it will jump straight out. However, if you put the same frog in a lukewarm saucepan increasing the temperature slowly, its neurology does not notice the change and the frog remains in the pot until it boils to death. Basically, the analogy demonstrates that gradual changes happening over time make it difficult for us to notice. This can be positive and negative depending on whether that change has developed habits within our best interests or not. This explains why when we examine our weight over time we don’t notice it being a problem, however when presented with a photo of us at a younger age we notice the significant change straight away. This is something that occurs commonly, people tend to let their dietary habits slip over many years. For those of us that have fallen into the trap of indulging in (high calorie) foods, the problem is not with the foods chosen but more so the timing. To be more specific, people tend to eat these particular foods whilst having a break from stressors in the workplace. In other words, we fall into the trap of ‘comfort eating’. This mental trap occurs alto often in smokers. A smoker will describe intense cravings for a cigarette when they have gone without a cigarette for too long (especially if something stressful was happening at the time). For those of you that have travelled this journey before, you know full well how unhealthy that cigarette craving is for you. But that powerful urge to ‘scratch the itch’ is sometimes just too overwhelming to resist. I bring this up because the way in which it feels when you try resisting the urge to indulge in comfort eating during stressful times is incredibly similar. When that urge becomes strong enough, all the knowledge goes right out of the window. In this book we discover the psychological hurdles preventing us from achieving our goals, or sticking to them long term. The unconscious mind is always developing new meanings to things happening in our every day lives and that includes attaching meaningings to the food we eat, our excise habits and our diets. Learn how to master the unconscious mind overcome negative and unhealthy eating, diet and exercise habits and replace them with new ones. Struggling to stick to your diets and workout routines? does the daily workout feel like a struggle? are you overwhelmed and lacking motivation? this book is for you, for the first time ever, Shane explains the psychological reasons holding you back, we have been listening to weightless gurus for years, trying the new 'fad' diets and taking our personal trainers advice but never before has anyone focused on the mindset and exactly what is happening on the inside that explains our struggles.