An interesting conundrum was put before me this week.
(In this article, I am not including in my consideration those that have a physical disability that prevents them from walking or running).
It was a conversation with someone about an organisation’s evacuation procedure, that prompted this chain of thought.
This person was involved in a fire drill. In recent months a nearby store had burned through in a remarkable mere 40 minutes. The fire had started in the cafe. Within 40 minutes the store was burned out. So a nearby organisation was having a fire drill. Their cafe was on the first floor. It took sometime for those trained to carry a wheelchair out, down the stairs and out of the building. This person chose to go against regulations and stay with a man who could only get out of the building if his wheelchair was carried out.
This set me thinking about people who have become incapacitated because of their size and are entirely reliant on the electric chairs; huge things, that are so heavy in themselves that nobody could carry them down flights of stairs. These people would have to wait for the emergency services, who themselves may not be able to rescue them. (Yes some buildings have ‘Escape Rooms’ but only this week, there was a tale of four individuals who died whilst waiting in such a facility).
My mind churned and the horror of anyone burning to death, caused me to question, at what point does any individual choose to deal with whatever it is that has them eating and excessively gaining weight, to the point that they have become a desperate liability to both themselves and possibly others.
Now I know I am treading on dangerous and sensitive territory here. Yes, I do know that there are many factors behind the issue of managing weight and weight gain.
Here are some:
Lack of self-confidence
Unhappiness – because of unhappy personal or work relationships
Loneliness – because of unhappy relationships, or difficulty in making friends
Sugar Addiction – so much food is laced with sugar
Gluten addiction
Alcohol
Lack of activity – through lack of time or lack of inclination
Changing metabolism as we get older – means that we can no longer maintain weight as we once did, or lose weight as we once did
Insidiously increasing portions
Filling time with eating
Not being aware of what we are eating
It may not be much, but I am a 6kgs heavier than was my average weight for most of my adult life. I am now 62 years old. I have been fit for much of my life – danced, cycled, kung fu, played tennis for much of my adulthood. I like many mothers and women, and also self-employed, have found myself easily putting myself aside in favour of my son and my work. Is that my excuse as well as my changing metabolism due to the menopause and my age? However, I do believe that I could still run for my life out of a building, if I had to. This year, I intend to strengthen my longtime dodgy knee and build my stamina and to lose those 6kgs and run, cycle and play tennis (even if not viciously – but then I never did).
I was brought up with sugar – white sugar. I used to eat sugar sandwiches when I was at primary school. However, in my twenties, I learned about the poison that is sugar (read ‘The Sugar Blues’) and I became very interested in mind, body, spirituality, health and food. It has been core to how I live and breathe since then (you could ask my son and he would roll his eyes and nod).
I believe that the food industry is more interested in its profits, than your or my health and wellbeing. I also believe (I have worked in the NHS as a nurse, a paediatric nurse and a community and specialist health visitor) that the NHS does not have the capacity or the interest in keeping people physically and mentally healthy.
I believe that it is down to each and everyone of us to take action constantly in our own lives, to be able to participate fully in our own lives.
Eating badly diminishes our mental and physical health very significantly and increasingly accummulatively. Most, if not all chronic diseases, stem from what and the way that we eat as well as our responses to stress. Our effectiveness, happiness, ability to relate well, sleep well, exercise well, think well, and manage our moods etc, are entirely down to how we eat.
All we are is chemical; having trillions of chemical reactions every moment of the day. To have a thought, action or reaction is entirely dependent upon those chemical reactions. Those chemicals, to produce those chemical reactions, depend upon the nutrients/food i.e. the chemicals that are put into our bodies.
So, if you don’t feel that it matters, and that food is just food, I am sorry but you have either been misled or perhaps you don’t care.
Your life depends on you taking charge. No one else can do it for you. How you have got to your current state of health or ill-health, is not relevant to what you can do for yourself from this moment on.
Changing habits, can be easier than you believe, but it does require your commitment. You need to be open to learning to do things differently, to take on new realisations and to be prepared to keep building new beliefs and tastes. Everyone falls off track from time to time, but the more you get back on track the stronger the resilient and resourceful pattern becomes. The great likelihood is that you need support to help you to shift and to keep going. IEMT and NLP will help you dismantle old triggers and patterns and to build new resourceful and resilient patterns.
Doing so, most likely, will even save you money.
If you want to know if I can help you just get in touch.
Make sure that you can save your life!
“I believe that it is down to each and everyone of us to take action, constantly in our own lives to be able to participate fully in our own lives.”
