Secrets to Staying Slim Forever

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Avatar of Barbara GarroBy Barbara Garro
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Staying Slim Forever

Staying Slim Forever

Slim Forever? You know that sometimes you just feel like you want to eat and eat and eat. Staying slim forever means taking the time to take inventory and see what’s behind your insatiable hunger?

What’s inventory about? Ask yourself when was the last time you ate? Should you be hungry? Did you get a balance of protein, fat, and carbohydrates? For example, not enough protein, no energy, and no full.

Not enough fat or no fat, no full, absolutely. All carbohydrates? That’s an answer to why you want to eat. Carbohydrates make you so hungry, especially if they are heavy on sugar.

Balance is always the key. You can eat sweets and such if you also eat them with protein.

Inventory Questions

Are you feeling emotionally hungry? Are you someone who purposely engages in positive self-care? You know what that means. Do you do it every day?

Are you really physically hungry? This is not just bodily hunger. It is also environmental hunger. How old is your mattress? Do you own a really comfortable chair? Do you like your surroundings at home? How does your home smell?

Have you thought about intellectual hunger? Think about the times you ate out of boredom? What’s that about? Intellectual deprivation. Stimulate your brain every day.

Social Hunger?

When was the last time you went out with people you really enjoy and had a really good time?

Occupational hunger? Are you fed and nourished in the work you do? If not, how can you change that without the risk of becoming homeless?

Spiritual hunger? Where is God in your life? How is God in your life? How often do you and God communicate?

You can see that over-active eating has a number of causes that have nothing to do with your belly.

After over 50 years of staying slim, I could go on and on. I know you know what to do. Can you do it? Or, do you need a little help that does not involve sticking to a diet, shelling out big bucks each month, or eating tasteless crap?

Your comments and questions are welcome.

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Barbara Garro

My mission in this life is to help people discover their best selves and have the happy lives they deserve. That's now. At one time I was the Director of Risk Management for Comcast Corporation and am a CPCU. I have completed the Coach Training Institute's program for personal coaching and Coach University's Corporate Coach two-year program. For 18 years, I was a syndicated business columnist published in all 50 states and 18 foreign countries. I have a master of arts from Empire State College, State University of New York, along with degrees in Business, Finance & Economics and Business & Professional Communications. I am the author of Grow Yourself a Life You'll Love, From Jesus to Heaven with Love: A Parable Pilgrimage, and wrote the lead song on Australian Margie Ward's, Magic Night Music CD. In addition, my poetry has been published in 21 anthologies and a combination art and poetry book is due out in 2012, along with The Comfort of the Shepherd: Parable Prayer & Meditation. After 9/11, I quit my business writing, coaching and speaking life and took back my art, since artist was my first choice of career. My art has won awards and in 2010, I began taking on private art students and writing students. I also edit non-fiction and other genre books for authors and run The Saratoga Poetry Focus Group, operating for 21 years and counting. Just recently, I took back Garro Talk, my small business syndicated column, which is published in all 50 states and 24 foreign countries.

What do I do when I am not working? I am outside enjoying God's nature doing my daily walk, attending religious classes at Skidmore College. volunteering at St. Clement's Church, Mary's Haven, and Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY. And I read incessantly, non-fiction, poetry, religion, Bibles of all stripes, occasionally fiction.

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  1. Avatar of Jack Eason
    Jack Eason says

    A lot of people unfairly labelled obese, eat more than their bodies can assimilate for reasons far too many to list here.

    Some people are naturally large, others are naturally thin. Fashion, advertising and peer pressure have a lot to answer for, don’t you think?

    In my book, eat a little of everything and stop worrying about what other people may think of you.

    😀

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