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