Lose weight and keep it off by fixing your leaky roof, what does that mean? Let me explain.
Let's say you are enjoying a relaxing day in your home and you suddenly hear a loud clap of thunder. You look out the window and see what looks like a wall of water approaching. As the rain hits your house, you hear what you think is water running. You come around the corner and find water pouring into your house, there is a leak in your roof! You grab a bucket and put it under the leak to catch the water. It's raining so hard the bucket fills up and you have to empty it. The heavy rain doesn't stop for an hour, the bucket keeps filling up and you have to keep emptying it.
Finally the rain stops, you survey the damage and start to think about your problem. You come up with two solutions:
1) The bucket was doing a good job of catching the water from the leak, but after you would empty it, it would keep filling up. Maybe the bucket is the problem. If you buy a new (bigger) bucket, when it rains again it won't fill up so fast, so you'll be able to empty it less often. 2) The roof is leaking, so obviously there is a hole in it. If you fix the hole, the leak is stopped. When it rains again, the roof won't leak so you won't need the bucket anymore.
Common sense says you fix the leak in the roof and end the problem.
How does this apply to weight loss and keeping the weight off? Most people struggle with weight problems because they cannot resist temptation. They are not able to resist the temptation to overeat at meal time and/or binge on junk food. They approach temptation (the leaky roof) and dieting (emptying the bucket) like this. Instead of fixing the hole in their eating habits (learn to resist temptation), they go on a diet (empty the bucket). Since they haven't fixed the hole in their eating habits, they gain the weight back (fill up the bucket).
Common sense would say fix the hole in your eating habits so once you lose the weight you can keep it off. However, since being overweight is an emotional issue for most people, they don't use common sense. Instead of deciding to fix the hole so they can lose weight and keep it off, they instead go on another diet (empty the bucket again). They ignore the hole in their eating habits and instead blame the diet. "I lost weight on the diet but I gained it all back. The problem must have been the diet. To solve the problem, I'll start a new diet (start emptying the bucket all over again).
Let's say you are enjoying a relaxing day in your home and you suddenly hear a loud clap of thunder. You look out the window and see what looks like a wall of water approaching. As the rain hits your house, you hear what you think is water running. You come around the corner and find water pouring into your house, there is a leak in your roof! You grab a bucket and put it under the leak to catch the water. It's raining so hard the bucket fills up and you have to empty it. The heavy rain doesn't stop for an hour, the bucket keeps filling up and you have to keep emptying it.
Finally the rain stops, you survey the damage and start to think about your problem. You come up with two solutions:
1) The bucket was doing a good job of catching the water from the leak, but after you would empty it, it would keep filling up. Maybe the bucket is the problem. If you buy a new (bigger) bucket, when it rains again it won't fill up so fast, so you'll be able to empty it less often. 2) The roof is leaking, so obviously there is a hole in it. If you fix the hole, the leak is stopped. When it rains again, the roof won't leak so you won't need the bucket anymore.
Common sense says you fix the leak in the roof and end the problem.
How does this apply to weight loss and keeping the weight off? Most people struggle with weight problems because they cannot resist temptation. They are not able to resist the temptation to overeat at meal time and/or binge on junk food. They approach temptation (the leaky roof) and dieting (emptying the bucket) like this. Instead of fixing the hole in their eating habits (learn to resist temptation), they go on a diet (empty the bucket). Since they haven't fixed the hole in their eating habits, they gain the weight back (fill up the bucket).
Common sense would say fix the hole in your eating habits so once you lose the weight you can keep it off. However, since being overweight is an emotional issue for most people, they don't use common sense. Instead of deciding to fix the hole so they can lose weight and keep it off, they instead go on another diet (empty the bucket again). They ignore the hole in their eating habits and instead blame the diet. "I lost weight on the diet but I gained it all back. The problem must have been the diet. To solve the problem, I'll start a new diet (start emptying the bucket all over again).
If you learn how to resist temptation you close the hole in your eating habits. Temptation will continue to come but since you've closed the hole, it no longer has power over you like it did in the past. When you learn to resist temptation, you eliminate the need to diet again once you have lost the weight you want to lose.
So what do you want to do? Do you want to fix your leaky roof (learn to resist temptation) or keep dieting (emptying the bucket over and over again). The choice is yours.
God bless.
Copyright 2009 Daniel Wychor All World Wide Rights Reserved
So what do you want to do? Do you want to fix your leaky roof (learn to resist temptation) or keep dieting (emptying the bucket over and over again). The choice is yours.
God bless.
Copyright 2009 Daniel Wychor All World Wide Rights Reserved
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