Want To Lose The Weight?

WANT TO LOSE THE WEIGHT?

ASK WHY YOU HAVE IT NOT WHY YOU CAN’T LOSE IT.

Eric Viskovicz B.S.

“It’s my hormones” “My problem is carbohydrates” “I have a food allergy” “I can’t eat white flour or sugar, it makes me fat” Sound familiar? We have all heard excuses such as this to explain why someone has not lost weight. And if any of them were true, presumable the person using these excuses would no longer be heavy. If the problem is your hormones, then you fix that, and you will lose weight. Simple enough right? However, we look at the person, and they clearly haven’t fixed the problem. That’s because that wasn’t the problem in the first place. The reason that person can’t lose weight is because she has not figured out the problem, probably because she is not looking in the right place.

Ultimately, when we sit in front the plate of food in front of us, when we lace up those running shoes and head out the door, when we get honest with ourselves, it is us. We are the only reasons we are heavy, and we are the only reasons we are going to get un-heavy. As much as we would like to find these answers outside of ourselves, and will assuredly spend a good amount of time looking there, we may as well be throwing our energy down the drain. We probably have already thrown a good amount of money there on any number of diet programs that promised results through some sort of magic pill, routine, blood test, or nutritional program. Let me put it straight, any program that did not focus on YOUR part, that is: what you are doing that you are surrounding yourself with weight, that you are avoiding relationships, that you are isolating, that you are terrorized about being thin and receiving attention, or that you are in denial about YOUR part of weight loss, is misguided from the start. At best these programs are ineffective, at worst, they are damaging. Let me sell you false hope in a bottle, then we can talk about how bad you feel that you have not only trusted me, only to be misguided again, but also how angry you are that I have taken advantage of your desperation to lose weight, and used it for my personal gain. Oh, and we can also talk about how much more of failure you feel you are that you have once again failed at weight lost. Sound like a good idea? Hopefully you said no, and more hopefully, you felt angry at the presumptuous suggestion.

Because it is a presumptuous suggestion that I have the ultimate cure for your weight problems. I have no idea why you eat what you eat, why you don’t exercise enough. Maybe you don’t see yourself as an exerciser, maybe exercise seems like a chore to you, maybe it was forced on you as a child, maybe you have abuse in your past and you become frightened about the idea of being thin. Who knows? You could have the “perfect” diet from 9am to 3pm, only to turn the evening into an all out eating contest, maybe you have trouble finding validation for yourself and food is the respite, maybe you are acting out a previous trauma by punishing yourself with food. Again, the reasons why you have not lost the weight can be as numerous as the ways you have found to prevent yourself from losing weight. The surface answer, “I am just lazy”, I don’t buy, and nor should you. Just lazy is a remedial explanation for not being where you want to be in life. The difference being that just lazy people do not want to be anywhere else. In that case, their weight is perfectly comfortable for them. Just lazy people also do not spend inordinate amounts of money trying to be “not lazy”, aka, losing weight.

Somehow desperation to lose weight, and just lazy don’t fit together. So do not fool yourself, if you really are just lazy, you wouldn’t be trying to lose weight. Obviously there is something else going on. And no quack selling weight loss in a bottle, pill, or program is going to fix it. The truth is, you are the only thing that is going to fix it. But, that being said, you are not going to fix it, unless you know what “it” is. That is, WHY you have to have the weight. Your first answer, “I don’t”, is not true. Clearly you do, because you are putting it there. You, being an intelligent person, must have a reason for doing this, otherwise you would not be doing it. So get honest, and start asking, what does the weight do for me, what does it keep away from me, what does it hide, what does it allow me to give voice to, what does it prevent from happening? Probably you don’t have answers for many of these questions. That is a good starting place, and at this point, you should not have answers. The important thing is to ASK WHY. The difference between asking, and explaining is willingness. If you are explaining to me why you have the weight, you are not willing to really look. If you really knew why you had the weight, guess what, you would not have it.

Weight loss is not a road riddled with hurdles and setbacks, it is a road thus far riddled with avoidances and excuses, mostly that we put there. Where there should have been willingness, there was resistance, where there should have been acceptance, there was judgment, where there should have been tolerance there was fear, and where there should have been self reliance, there was lack of responsibility.

Eric Viskovicz has a B.S. in economics and biology from the University of Pittsburg, is a Certified Nutritionist, Child Fitness Specialist, Post Rehabilitation Specialist, and Child Nutritionist, and has been featured on over fifty shows, including Dr. Phil, America’s Next Top Model, Fox Sports Network, Blind Date, and has been a consultant to NBC. Eric Viskovicz has helped thousands of people lose weight and has trained several prominent public figures and celebrities including Jessica Biel, Matt Grant, Bette Midler, the princess of Jordan, Ben Moody, and the son of the Korean Prime Minister and is the president and founder of Live In Fitness Enterprise, a residential bootcamp in Marina Del Rey CA. Eric is currently completing book, due out later this year. Additional information about Eric, Live In Fitness, or the book can be seen at www.liveinfitnessenterprise.com, www.camptechnique.com, or www.ericviskovicz.com.