The Missing Links to Weight Loss (eBook)

Katie Mulvaney (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | 1. Auflage
144 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
9780000978103 (ISBN)

Infos

Many experts say that the equation to weight loss is that your calories in must be greater then your calories out, but I am here to tell you that it is much more complicated then that. This book addresses how other factors such as motivation, stress, self love, and prioritzation, among other factors, play a part in your weight loss journey and how you can stack the deck in your favor.  

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Chapter 1

The Missing Link to Weight Loss

 

As a health coach, I started seeing Tammy in late October. I began with my usual initial evaluation, collecting information to determine how I could help her. Tammy was a 46-year-old. She was 5' 7" and weighed 200 lb. She was a very busy person in her high-level career and was really struggling with keeping the weight off.

 “I can lose the weight, no problem,” she said.

 I followed this question wanting more information. “If you are able to take the weight off, why reach out to me?”

“Well, I’ve lost the weight five or six times. I have followed whatever the diet du jour is, I follow it to a T. I am successful, I get down to the weight I want. I feel good, I look good, I am happy. But then as time passes, I put all the weight back on, and often more. I just can’t live in this cycle anymore.”

Tammy’s story resonates with a lot of people. If you are reading this book, chances are you’ve been stuck in the diet culture, too. You have lost the weight, or tried to lose the weight, and you have also had success. But you’ve never really had the long-term success that you have dreamed about.

 “I feel like now that I am forty-six, I have spent way too much of my life dieting, trying to lose weight, and trying to get healthy. What I have really wanted all along is to just get to a place where I can live comfortably in this world, where I am not stuck in this culture of dieting and judgement. I want to learn to live my life in a healthy way. Learn to naturally make the right choice, to step away from the diet culture and just find my own peace and happiness,” Tammy said.

Little did she know this was one of the most insightful things that I had ever heard as a nutritionist/health coach. Tammy, like many of us, had fallen prey to the world that keeps us overweight and hating our bodies. The world of dieting. No one is denying that we live in a diet and weight-loss culture. We are inundated constantly with before and after photos. People talking about food, secret remedies, diet pills, prescription weight loss medications, programs, experts, therapists, doctors, trainers, dietitians, nutritionists, work-out programs, and on and on and on. People talking about how many calories, how much protein, how much sugar, counting their macros, or how much fat is in their food. There are thousands of books on the topic and people to follow on social media. Constant advertisements for this workout program that will give you the perfect body you have always dreamed of in just 28 days, that diet in which you can lose 25 lb. in a month. People and companies are making millions and millions of dollars in the diet and weight-loss industry, yet here we are, still overweight, still frustrated, and still desperately searching for answers, looking for that hidden secret that will make it all come together.

We are all looking for a magic pill, a secret remedy, something easy and quick because the truth is that putting in the work to lose 50, 100 or even 20 lb. is daunting. We don’t have time. We are busy, we don’t want restrictions. We want to do what we want, when we want because, let’s be honest, losing weight sucks. It isn’t fun. It is daunting to think of spending the next six months or so on a diet, exercising excessively and eating boring and bland foods, denying yourself the foods you love. Many of us find our joy in life in delicious food and drink, and that’s okay. We feel comforted by being really full and indulging in the forbidden fruit. We love the social aspect of breaking bread with another or having a drink. We want to eat and drink what we want, when we want it.

Side note: The weight loss injectables have hit the market over the past several years and many people find that this is the secret remedy that we have all been looking for, but as I have spent the past several years working very closely with people taking these medications, I can assure you, it isn’t. Whether or not you take these medications, you still have to do the work. This medication will only take you so far. Weight loss lays beyond diet, exercise and medication, it lies within the missing links outlined in this book.

On top of all of this, there are MANY people who have lost the weight and gotten to the place that they want to, only to go back to their old way of life, of finding that enjoyment through food and drink and relaxation and gaining the weight back, or oftentimes, even more. We don’t want to live a life of water and celery forever, but we also want to be happy and healthy and love our bodies. We don’t want to run marathons to keep in shape, we want to binge-watch shows and find deep relaxation and mind-numbing entertainment. The thought of doing it temporarily may be okay, but it’s a lot of work, especially for the long term, and the truth is our bodies weren’t created to live in a calorie deficiency or an intense exercise program over the long term, especially as we age.

I am going to give you a hard truth that is difficult to digest. According to the Cleveland Clinic, it is estimated that up to 95% of people that actually are successful on diets are going to gain the weight back within several years, and two thirds of people will gain back more weight than they originally had. If you look at this, you may say, that’s not me, I will be in the five percent, but will you be? Probably not. I am going to sum up this 5% in one sentence. They don’t lose weight through diet, they lose weight through changing their mindset, their outlook, and their habits. That’s it, that’s the secret. Even if they are unaware of it, that is what happens. In this book, the goal is to get you out of the 95% and into the 5%. To increase the 5% by publicly exposing how to get out of the dieting mentality and into a mindset of health and weight loss. It is going to show you how to lose weight and keep it off once and for all. There are no false promises: if you don’t do the work, you won’t get the results. It is that simple, but the hope is that we can make doing the work fun and exciting.

Here is a fact: Weight loss is complex. Many nutritionists and trainers oversimplify it with calories in vs. calories out, and although this is true on the most basic level, there is much more involved. SO MUCH MORE INVOLVED. There are medications to consider, stress, mental health, age, childhood trauma, gender, genetics, time management, self-esteem, how we were raised, sleep habits, hormones, ethnicity, and much more. Oversimplification of the weight-loss procedure is what can cause the frustration, the inability to feel good about ourselves, the binge eating, the depression, and anything else that comes along with it. There are as many ways to lose weight as there are people in the world; the trick is to find your own path, and it is possible.

 The next hard truth that most people don’t want to hear is that there is no easy solution. The easier the solution, the higher the failure rate over a one-year period. If you don’t put in the work to change yourself, to change your habits and your mindset, to change the way you eat, you will be heading for a life with continued increasing weight, leading to obesity. A life of failed diets and exercise plans, pouring thousands of your hard-earned dollars into the toilet as you try plan after plan and feeling bad about yourself for failing, and always finding yourself in the same position, like Tammy.

Obesity is considered a progressive disease. This means that once you are diagnosed with a BMI over 30, it is very difficult to reverse or change it. It is possible, but YOU HAVE TO PUT IN THE WORK. You are only doomed to live a life of sustained weight gain if you continue to think the way you think and do the things you do. You must make serious changes, and you must commit. You have to be consistent. You have to make the changes and make them a part of your life.

The good thing about putting in the work is that you will have many benefits from it. You will learn to find happiness in life, you will improve your bloodwork numbers, and you will reduce your risk or symptoms of heart disease, diabetes, and other diseases created by an unhealthy lifestyle. There is nothing but gold at the other end of the rainbow, but no one is going to hand you it. You have to figure out how to get it, and this book is here to help you with just that. Anyone that says they are going to tell you exactly what to do to lose weight is lying to you, and themselves, probably. It may help you to get the weight off initially, but it will do nothing for long-term success. Long term success and health comes from you. It comes from you putting in the effort to find the plan that works for you and is sustainable forever with little to no effort.

We don’t give our bodies enough credit. Our bodies know when it’s had enough, and they take over. We think we are in control, but we aren’t. I worked in an eating disorder clinic for five years and this was my biggest takeaway. It is common when someone is in a calorie deficit for a long period of time that their brain takes over. They will literally eat in their sleep or go into a dissociated state where they go the refrigerator and binge on anything they can find. Sometimes, in a less extreme case, we will even call this emotional eating or stress eating. Our bodies don’t want to be hungry; they don’t want to be deficient in carbs or calories,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.7.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
• ISBN-13: 9780000978103 / 9780000978103