Why arent I loosing weight?
The short answer is energy.
From the traditional western philosophy, weight loss and weight management is a story about calories, deficits, fat-burning heart rates, and nutrition. And while those techniques are often an important part of a healthy weight and lifestyle, I have found more often than not, there is a deeper and more subtle component to weight loss.
I have a friend, she is a beauty in all the ways a person can be beautiful. She is kind, intelligent, fair, and grounded. She is wise beyond her years and physically very attractive. She also happens to be quite thin. She studied long and hard to be able to become a specialist in nutrition and natural wellness, and so people often ask her what the best way to attain and maintain a svelte figure is.
She gingerly replies “just think thin!”. At first glance, this response may elicit an eye roll. “That’s it?” you might gasp. “If all I had to do was think thin, I wouldn’t be so frustrated! I’d sit on my butt all day eating bon-bons!” But if you look a little deeper, the wisdom in her advice is pure, and deeply rooted in yogic and Ayurvedic technology.
From the Ayurvedic perspective, the weight on our bodies is defined by a delicate balance of the 5 gross elements. Our bodily tissues are made up of earth, air, fire, water, and ether. Each person has a unique combination of these 5 elements. An imbalance in one or more of these elements can have a wide variety of symptoms, weight gain being only one possibility. The elements responsible for making up the majority of our fat and muscle tissue are primarily made up of earth and water. What we ingest and digest not only physically, but mentally and emotionally is responsible for contributing to the quantity and quality of these tissue layers.
In other words, what we digest energetically is just as important to our overall health as what we eat. For instance, our ability to give and accept love is partially responsible for the quality of the fat tissues of our body. If someone lacked self-confidence and self-love, it would be more likely for that individual to have an imbalance in their fat tissues.
My friend’s advice to “think thin” hones in on this idea that what you are feeling and thinking might be just as important to your weight-loss journey as what you are eating and doing. When we can cultivate the energy of self-love, it has a tangible impact on the tissues of our body, energetically making a healthy weight more favorable.