| If we have a clue what is causing our belly fat we | | | | energy was being used just to get through the |
| are closer to solving that situation. What causes | | | | day. When all you can think about is whether you |
| belly fat is a question that we all should ask | | | | can squeeze in a nap, the things that require you |
| ourselves before we go headfirst into the latest | | | | to focus just don't make the list! It's difficult to |
| diet craze. It's easy to get the cart before the | | | | concentrate on the things that aren't absolutely |
| horse and react to whatever is promising results | | | | necessary, like eating right, when you are in this |
| and hope that will be the end to our battle of the | | | | state of exhaustion. |
| bulge. However, this kind of thinking will lead us on | | | | Being that tired all day, every day also was |
| what can be an endless round of diet after diet. | | | | leaving me "starved" for energy. I would do |
| We never get to the point that we consider what | | | | anything to have a little burst of steam to help |
| may have caused the problem in the first place. | | | | me get through the day. Of course that sent me |
| In my lifetime I don't think there is a diet out | | | | in the direction of one of the classic bad habits of |
| there that I haven't been on at least once. My | | | | constant dieters....the mid-afternoon snack. |
| library of diet books is embarrassing and dates | | | | Granted this snack when you feel this way has to |
| back to the FIRST time that the Atkins diet | | | | be a candy bar or a soda for instant energy (or if |
| came around. I really am a marketers dream. Just | | | | you're like me...BOTH!). So once again being |
| show me the hype and tell me how easy it will | | | | chronically fatigued has played into my weight . |
| be. That's all I need to hear and I'm hooked. I'm | | | | Lack of energy also has an effect on your |
| extremely trusting and want so desperately to | | | | metabolism. If you consider the speed with which |
| think it could be that simple. | | | | you attack your day, you will have some idea of |
| But years and years of dieting had left me in the | | | | what is going on inside as your body processes |
| same place...with a roll of fat around my middle. It | | | | food. On the off chance that you were able to |
| was a chance Doctors appointment that started | | | | eat in a healthy manner, it is not going to be that |
| me thinking that there might be real reasons I | | | | quick metabolism burning those calories and |
| was fighting this problem. | | | | turning them into energy. |
| I was at a time in my life when everything in | | | | Perhaps the connection between my exhaustion |
| general and some "challenges" (got to love 'em!) in | | | | and weight that made the most sense was the |
| specific had taken a toll on my sleep. It had gone | | | | explanation of what happens to our self esteem. |
| beyond not just getting a good nights sleep every | | | | It's upsetting to not succeed at the things we are |
| now and then. I was chronically tired and lived in a | | | | trying to be disciplined at. But consider this...when |
| state of exhaustion. | | | | it's all you can do to get out of bed in the |
| My Doctor has to be one of the few that wants | | | | morning, seldom are you motivated to take great |
| to make sure what she tells you is useful. She | | | | care in getting dressed and look sharp...(need I say |
| pointed out the reality of what effect this chronic | | | | sweats and sneaks?) We all know that when we |
| fatigue was having on my life and my inability to | | | | don't really care about how we look it effects |
| lose weight. | | | | how we act as well. Things just don't seem as |
| The first connection she showed me was that | | | | important when we dress down. So it's easy to |
| while I was normally a disciplined person I was | | | | forgo our determination and good habits. |
| having a very hard time maintaining that. My | | | | |