The Weight Loss Secret No One Ever Talks About

Maybe you’ve tried to lose weight before. And maybe you’ve tried a variety of ways to do it, including eating better and getting more exercise.

There are many healthy diets out there. Almost too many. It’s hard to choose. They all seem to have competing claims. They all seem to promise long-lasting results. There are plenty of sports to choose from too.

But it doesn’t matter what you try. Nothing seems to work. Something always comes along and triggers you. You quit your diet, or you lose interest in your new exercise program. You decide that all diets are just fads, that cooking isn’t fun, it’s a chore, and that you’ll never find a sport that suits you anyway.

Any weight you may have lost comes right back and, before you know it, you might even weigh more than you did before.

So what’s the problem? Why can’t you lose weight and keep it off? Why can’t you stick to a sport or exercise program like other people do?

The most likely reason is quite simple.

There’s an emotional element to your weight control issue that has never been addressed. This is the secret few people are aware of, or rarely talk about.

The problem isn’t with the diet you try, or the exercise program you find difficult to maintain. The problem lies somewhere in your past.

There’s a link between food and some emotional event, a link that was perhaps established during your childhood or teenage years. This link causes you to engage in “emotional eating”—turning to food for comfort.

Whenever something triggers you, you start eating like you did in the past, or, you lose interest in your exercise program. Or both.

Emotional eating isn’t related to satisfying physical hunger. It’s about trying to satisfy—or relieve—unpleasant emotions or memories, some of which may be locked away in your subconscious.

Emotional eating causes you to break your diet and head straight for the ice cream or pastry shop. And it isn’t satisfied when you are full. It always comes right back. Sure, you feel sadness or shame or guilt after you eat the wrong things, but that doesn’t stop you. You make the same eating mistakes over and over again.

Emotional eating also causes you to procrastinate—you tell yourself: “I’ll start eating better on Monday, but this weekend I’m going to treat myself.”

In a word, emotional eating is a kind of “psychological baggage” you’ve carried from childhood into adulthood.

So the solution to the problem won’t be found in following the latest diet, or buying the latest piece of exercise equipment. The solution will be found within yourself. You might need to try some sort of self-help practice, like meditation or mindfulness. Or maybe seek help from a professional therapist. This way you can identify and heal the “emotional component” to your eating and, once this is done, you will find it much easier to shed weight and maintain your new ideal body weight with ease.