| I bet you already know all the health benefits for | | | | passionate about encouraging you to lose weight |
| keeping slim. You have probably tried every diet; | | | | because they attach certain meaning and value to |
| the Atkins, the Southbeach, the metabolic, the | | | | your weight.It is good intentions but ultimately bad |
| fruit, the water or just plain starvation. In fact, | | | | expressions.FamilyFamilies can affect personal diet |
| you may even have gained extra weight. You | | | | plans when everyone in the family has a |
| know all the intellectual stuff about keeping | | | | preference towards heavy weight.Let us take for |
| healthy, exercising and eating consistently. But you | | | | example that all your brothers and sisters (or |
| are still as heavy as ever.How is it that all those | | | | fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts) are 200 pounds |
| intellectual knowledge is not driving you towards | | | | (100 kgs) and yet, seem to be having a whale of |
| weight loss?This is because the human body is | | | | time in their life.How motivated will you be to lose |
| driven by passion and not intellectual knowledge. | | | | weight?The Chinese FamilyIn the Chinese family, |
| Knowledge teaches us techniques; passion dives | | | | food is good and our parents insist that we eat |
| us to make it happen.In this situation, external | | | | as much as possible; chubbiness is a mark of |
| circumstances are not conducive in igniting our | | | | fortune and blessing. To add to this conundrum, it |
| passion for keeping healthy and slim.If we have | | | | is superstitiously believe that every plate has to |
| failed numerous times in our weight loss efforts, it | | | | be cleared up. Otherwise, you will get an ugly wife |
| may be time that we evaluate our external | | | | husband in future.This, to me, sounds like the |
| environment. That may be the cause of our | | | | perfect setting to guilt-free weight gain.The |
| failures.Our family, partner and friends make up | | | | American FamilyIn a similar vein, most American |
| this external environment that we live in. It is not | | | | family diets contain unhealthy fats and weight gain |
| by malice that they want to sabotage our weight | | | | ingredients. You would feel obliged to eat a similar |
| loss plans. It is rather their own innate fears that | | | | meal while at family functions to prevent being |
| they wrestle with. They are like the mother who | | | | the centre of attentionI am sure that there are |
| nearly drowned. Hence, she will never allow her | | | | many other cultures that have unhealthy eating |
| child to go swimming.Ultimately, they are not | | | | rituals and superstitions. |