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Product Review and Notes – Zero Resistance Weight Loss (Part 1)

The following is what I learned so far from Dr. Robert Anthony’s program, Zero Resistance Weight Loss. I bought his program because I strongly believe it is the mind and your day-to-day thoughts that will ultimately get you results in our bootcamp or any other weight loss, body conditioning or fitness program.

If you really want to lose weight, and you are tired of making excuses, failing or not seeing results fast enough, this is the program for you.

Here are some things I learned from part 1 of the Zero Resistance program (these are my actual notes from the program):

Go for weight release NOT weight loss (if you lose your keys, you want to find them. You don’t want to find your weight again, do you!?)

Your “subconscious emotional weight survival program” is the software you are running inside your mind that keeps you at a subconsciously selected weight. The good news is that you can override this programming!

Normally, weight loss involves a constant struggle, but not if you remove your subconscious resistance first!

To be successful, you need to align subconscious with conscious. Your thoughts might say you want to lose weight, but if your subconscious mind says something else, it will override your conscious mind every time.

Weight loss is more than calories in vs. calories out.

If your subconscious emotional weight survival programming is set for you to be overweight, you will continue to not lose weight.

All diets fail in the long run.

Overriding your subconscious programming doesn’t work in the long run. You can’t simply use “will power”.

Trying to get results with only your conscious mind is like driving your car with the emergency brakes on. (I personally thought this analogy hit the nail on the head.)

If your emotional survival switch is turned off it will be easy and effortless to lose weight.

Addiction is having a lack of choice. Compulsive and emotional eating is an addiction.

Will power does NOT work. This is trying to override your subconscious programming and is the path of resistance.

Stopping smoking by willpower is difficult. However, stopping smoking by having the same thoughts as a non-smoker is easy. You simply won’t be interested or you’ll be repulsed by the idea. This same idea works in releasing your excess weight.

Mental, emotional or spiritual stress is perceived as a lack of something. Brain takes the message of not enough, and turns it into something physical. Food, shopping, alcohol, caffeine, ect. may be what your mind will look for.

Being overweight is serving your emotional needs.

If you believe you were meant to be fat, or born to be fat, you have your emotional weight programming turned on.

Weight loss becomes effortless with the fat switch turned off.

Systematically eliminating the mental and emotional factors.

Emotional eating – eating purely for emotional reasons. Distracts you from what is really bothering you. Cope with negative emotions. Physical tension or anxiety then triggers the physical response to eat. When I’m stressed, I tend to eat, because it calms me down and makes me feel better. Anticipatory anxiety or worry is a stress that can create emotional eating. Associate love, comfort and security with eating. Brain is programmed to use food to fulfill these needs. Ex. Your a child, you get cake for your birthday. Your mom gives you candy when you are good, or to make you feel better. People use food as a treat or a reward. When you’re stressed, the candy bar wins out over the fitness strategy every time. Dopamine is released and leads to patterns of addiction and leaves a permanent identification of where pleasure comes from. We all engage in emotional eating to some degree. Healthy people eat to live. Emotional eaters live to eat. This means your fat switch is turned on.

Emotional obesity – Is the actual need to be fat as an emotional survival mechanism. When you have emotional obesity, you come to the conclusion that consciously or unconsciously being fat makes you feel safer. Not good, but safer. Being fat or overeating becomes the best way to protect you.

No weight loss program will ever be able to work for you. When you turn off your fat switch and emotional obesity you will succeed.

If you do not change this, you will find a way to sabotage your weight loss. Even if I said you will lose weight just by snapping your fingers 30 seconds per day, you would find an excuse, lack of time, etc. why it will not be possible to do this. Your emotional obesity will always win out.

Fat can create an emotional “distance” in relationships or in being harmed in relations with people.

Fear can make people fat, or skinny (anorexia).

Gaining weight can be a way of hiding from the world, almost like a turtle. Retreating inside your body, or underneath your fat.

Some people stay fat to rebel against the people who want us to be slim. “I don’t want to be controlled, and you can’t control my weight.”

If someone else wants you to lose weight, they may stay fat just to resent you, and to maintain control.

You will have people around you that try to sabotage you, and you may want to stay the same just to keep everyone happy.

If people start giving you attention because you lose weight, and you don’t want that attention and it makes you feel out of your comfort zone, you may revert back to emotional obesity to remain in your comfort zone.
Another way we can be triggered into emotional obesity is through death or a loss of a relationship.

You cannot ignore the problem of emotional obesity. Rather than ignore it, address it, and then watch the weight literally melt off your body.

Here’s an important lesson when it comes to emotional eating, and emotional obesity, that you must learn – sometimes in life, you just have to allow yourself to feel bad. This is critically important, so it will be repeated. Sometimes in life, you just have to allow yourself to feel bad.

By bad I mean stressed, upset, dissapointed, frustrated and so on.

To fix the problems in your life, sit with your feelings. This will cause you to get to the root of the problem.

True freedom from being overweight does not involve a lifetime of dieting. True freedom requires getting to the bottom of things, and then dealing with it, so you will be released from being overweight forever.

The reasons diets don’t work, is that they require you to change your eating habits without addressing your crutch.

Food is merely a mirror that reflects what you’re feeling or what you don’t want to feel.

The old behavior was to eat.

The new behavior is to heal and resolve what’s causing you to emotionally overeat.

Another problem with being overweight is because it’s accumulative, and it shows on you wherever you go.

All diets and even healthy eating plans are doomed for failure.

Being overweight is really a disease of MORE. No amount of food is enough. No matter how much you have, it’s not enough.

The need for food is sometimes called the big empty. If you’re spiritually feeling disconnected, this could lead to emotional overeating to fill the void with food.

It’s never about the food, it’s about the emotion behind the food.

Meaning and purpose to our lives gives us “soul food”.

How do you know when your emotional eating issues are gone? You will feel safer, better, more connected. Your fat switch will turn off, then you will have zero resistance and you will naturally drop the weight.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 5:18 pm.