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The Psychology of Weight Loss: The Fear of Change

Weight loss is achieved through consuming a high quality diet that contains healthy foods. This sort of diet is not normal to most who live in Western nations, as most are conditioned to eat a typical Western diet from cradle … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Organisation and Meal Preparation

Being organised can be a highly useful skill and this is especially true for those who wish to consume a high quality diet. Many people in the Western World make little provision for food preparation and eat on a more … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Avoiding the Naysayers

Losing body fat is a much easier task than the mainstream diet industry and most health ‘experts’ would’ acknowledge. Fat loss for most comes naturally when disease forming pro-inflammatory foods are exchanged for more healthy disease preventing anti-inflammatory alternatives. This … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Old Habits Die Hard

Most people who live in the West have consumed a typical Western diet all their lives. This diet is based on consuming foods available in a typical Western supermarket. The diet will comprise largely of animal protein, supplemented with refined … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Is Psychology Important?

Many people are fixated purely on the physical realm that we live in and we call these people materialists. Science has actually become a religion and dogma has crept into its teachings such that to questions them invites derision. This … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Managing expectations

Many claims are made about miracle cures in weight loss. Supplement companies, weight loss companies and experts all portray weight loss as a rigged reality that can be achievable through energy restriction and physical activity. Based on the flawed theory … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Disinformation Agents

Self education is the key to success in any field, and this is true for nutrition. In order to become successful at fat loss there must be a certain amount of self education of matters pertaining to body composition improvement. … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Rewarding Success

Following a high quality diet in order to lose body fat is not easy to those who have never eaten nutritious food before. Initially there are a number of obstacles to overcomes, the most difficult being the habit of consuming … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Understanding Addition

In a broad sense addictions can be both psychological or physical. Psychological addictions are those where the individual feels that they require a particular food or drug, but there are no changes that suggest the substance is required for a … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Dealing With Failure

The main cause of weight gain and obesity is consumption of the typical Western diet. The typical Western diet contains a number of foods that contribute to weight gain, but most prominent amongst these are the refined carbohydrates, particularly refined … Continue reading

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