How do I gain will power?!


Question: How do I gain will power?
I plan on starting a diet but I have no will power. Any time I feel sad, lonely, angry, or upset in general, I eat. Every time I am on a diet I quit because something happens that upsets me, I want to lose weight but I feel that there is no point because I will just gain it back again. I feel lost, I don't feel like myself any more I need an outlet other than food but I don't know what...any time I talk to my friends/family about these feelings I feel ignored or they say "oh me too" and that's not what I want to hear I want them to listen but I don't know how to gain any self-confidence and I don't feel like I can trust anyone else any advice?

Answers:

Good question, but no easy answer. Health is the result of thousands and thousands of choices that accumulate to create wellness or illness.....depending on whether those choices were mostly healthy or mostly unhealthy. Weight is just one piece of our overall health status.

Rather than focus on your diet as a means to weight control, it may be helpful to focus on diet as your road to better health....both physical and mental. A healthy diet will provide optimal nutrition for your body, and optimal nutrition will help to eliminate food cravings that keep you hungry and always hunting for food. See, it's not actually willpower you are lacking, it's optimal nutrition in your choice of foods.

Keep in mind that when your body says "feed me".... it is wanting nutrients. The best nutrients are not found in junk food, they are found in whole foods (vegetables, fruits, grains). So if you eat junk food, your body is still needing those nutrients it was wanting when it sent that hunger signal. The biggest trap here in America is that the standard American diet (SAD) is built around junk food (processed foods, fast foods, cooked foods) that provide the body with less than adequate levels of critical nutrients. The SAD leaves you still needing nutrition, which causes your body to keep sending those hunger signals. A whole foods diet can change that. A good book to check out is "Your Fat Is Not Your Fault".

Have studied nutrition and health for ten years now.



I don't know you but you have will power already, to bring it out, when you feel sad, lonely whatever this is what I do, I usually to get rid of anger:

Put running shoes on and go running in the park. Last time I did it was night it was raining I got attacked by some weirdo, long story cut short they locked ME up as he ended up with a broken nose and a bent knee.
Maybe this one isn't too good so..

I don't have a punching bag so in the past I have been known to hang cardboard on the wall and punch the big H out of it, you can also punch a couch or you can stick pillows to the wall with gaffa tape but if you are too strong and the wall isn't out of bricks you might punch it through so...

go to the gym and do weights, I am actually against this as you just get heavy for nothing but I did it in the past and it does get some steam out of you.

What I love doing now is to swim. It can be VERY boring so I just set my mind up that I am in there for a few hours anyway so I might as well think about fairy tales or whatever and just swim and swim and swim and all anger just gets replaced by peace of mind and utter calm.

Another thing that girls do is follow health tapes, aerobics etc with you tube at the touch of a button there's no excuse at all.
Just type in Seals workout!

what I know




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