Subodh Gupta
Oprah Winfrey is one of the most famous and successful women in the world, yet she is not successful to keep her weight under control.
Her weight had yet again spiralled out of control. In Oprah’s words: “Thought I had it, but life took over.”
Oprah’s many successes and failures with her weight are her most widely publicized and self confessed problem area.
Too many of her efforts follow exactly the same route: lose weight, gain back, lose again, and gain back even more. And every time it is just more difficult to lose weight .
So ... why Oprah can’t stay slim?
She has everything what is needed to achieve her ideal slim look: money, personal trainer, chefs and desire to be slim but it is interesting that despite all that she can’t achieve a permanent weight loss.
There must be something else what sabotages Oprah’s success.
She says: “I use food for the same reasons an addict uses drugs: to comfort, to soothe, to ease stress.” It appears though Oprah Winfrey career is blooming but she is full of stress and she deal with her stress through comfort food.
Now till we are alive the stress issue will never end and in fact unpleasant situation will occur more frequently and if food is used to cope with the stress than weight loss issue doesn’t appears to get solved.
While running weight loss program for many celebrities in London and keeping their weight off for long term, it was easy to identify that one of the biggest problem that sabotages most people success is emotional eating.
So the question is what about people who permanently lost their weight? Did they do something different?
The answer is yes. They discovered a better way to release their physical and emotional stress and the food stopped being the emotional trigger for them.
It is important to note here that most often we don’t really crave a certain food but what we crave is the feeling we get when we eat that specific food. The way out of the emotional eating is to find a different way to release stress when you face unpleasant situations or get bored.
This could be by doing something which you discover you love doing such as – Dancing, Art class, Karate, Swimming or Yoga, etc.
Yoga is one of the best ways to distress and relax, leaving you feeling good about yourself and rejuvenated.
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Issued in public interest by celebrity trainer Subodh Gupta.
Subodh Gupta is an author of numerous books on yoga, weight loss and stress management. He has been interviewed by various TV channels and his views and articles appear regularly in magazines and newspapers in India and the UK.
Subodh Gupta is based in London (UK) and conducts yoga, weight loss, nutrition and stress counselling sessions for number of celebrities.
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