Weight loss goals

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On Behalf Of SV

Monday, August 14, 2006 8:53 AM

Re: [Raw Food] question

 

I " release " my weight. If I lose something I usually want to find it! I don't

want to find the

weight I've lost - hence I release the weight!!!

 

Shari

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Yeah !!! Well put Shari, I agree!! That's why we call repositories for lost

items the " lost and

found " . :)

 

We are designed to be lean, as are almost all creatures large and small.

(Exceptions are, for

example, those that hibernate, as they prepare to hibernate). Watch the larger

animals, in

Nature, as they move -- lions and tigers and elephants, dolphins, whales,

sharks, land or sea,

it doesn't matter. In every case of which I am aware (except hibernatory, as

mentioned), you can

SEE the muscles, the rib cage/structure. Nothing is hidden from plain view.

 

As Doug Graham has said on many occasions, either you're moving it, or it's

moving you.

 

I'd like to share a further bit of perspective about weight loss GOALS. May I

suggest that,

perhaps with rare exception, weight loss goals are inherently self-defeating?

When we set such a

goal, we tend to engage in acts which, while supportive of the goal, may be

counterproductive to

overall health. All one need do to verify this assertion is look out the window,

so to speak, at

all the dieting nonsense, and even the surgeries (e.g., liposuction, stomach

stapling -- can you

even imagine??) in the world, all intended to produce " weight loss " .

 

We would serve ourselves far better by setting goals that relate to our overall

health and

well-being. Simply relearning to eat, engaging in a bit more physical activity,

enjoying a bit

more sunshine and fresh air -- and turning these little shifts into lifelong

habits -- serves us

far better than any weight loss goal.

 

Just my 2 cents.

 

Elchanan