Diets For Busy Women

Experts agree that there are 17 lifestyle factors which people need to investigate and attend to in order to achieve permanent weight loss. At the top of the list is our stress levels.

Many diet companies are guilty of lying to their clients about weight loss, because they pretend that the most important thing to do is to go on their diet. In fact their diet is completely unnecessary for weight loss, and in the end will only make the poor client fatter! If you want weight loss, and especially if you want permanent weight loss, then stress and other lifestyle factors need to be looked at!

What is the harm done by stress? A healthy reaction to stress includes the release of a hormone called cortisol, and so far so good. But too much stress produces way too much cortisol and we experience damage to our entire body function, including our metabolic rate.

So if you have unrelenting stress, if you suffer from an anxiety disorder or have fears, phobias, compulsions, obsessions, panic attacks or stress disorders, then it’s vitally important to get help to resolve these permanently so that they no longer trouble you. Obviously you need to consider what to do about that.

The first step should always be to visit your doctor, because the symptoms of anxiety can mask a medical condition. For example thyroid disorders can bring on a stressed state of mind and even panic attacks! So first see your doctor!

However the most commonly-recommended treatments for anxiety should be regarded as out of date because they are painfully slow to get any benefit from, and in most cases don’t work at all, wasting time and money. CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) is a notorious example.

Another way that people try to manage their stress or cover up the symptoms is with drugs such as alcohol, or by smoking. Studies show that these things actually increase stress overall, as well as being damaging to the body, so your program should investigate your use (if any) of these substances so that you can recover and live a full and happy life without them.

When you’re seeking an effective therapist or an effective program, realise that you won’t see client testimonials very often, if at all. An ethical therapist will not generally ask clients for testimonials, and will not generally use them. Instead, they will be able to point you to actual scientific research.

Where “therapies” or “treatments” are offered by unqualified people, particularly over the internet, it’s quite common to see testimonials, and you should keep in mind not only that there is no proof that these testimonials are real, but that 1000 testimonials from happy clients often hide many thousands more disappointed stories from clients who got no such result.

The problem is that “placebo effect” (positive benefit arising merely out of the belief that the “treatment” will work) is at work in every case, so that there will always be people who improve, but they may be very few amongst many. The placebo effect is at work in clinical trials also, but in properly-designed trials this is taken into account in order to more properly judge the effectiveness of the treatment.

In order to eliminate your stress or anxiety, you need a technique which will quickly “mess up” your typical reaction to thoughts or situations that used to distress you. BMSA (Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation) is a very modern and effective treatment that accomplishes exactly that, often immediately.

For example, you might have the thought of making a telephone call, and feel highly anxious about that. Utilising BMSA techniques, you could quite deliberately try to get anxious about making that call, but simply be unable to do so. Instead, you would find to your surprise that you felt quite calm.

There are huge advantages to resolving the stress in your life once and for all. Reduced stress levels improve your metabolism, but they also improve mood and sleep function, both of which in turn also improve metabolic rate. It’s an exponential impact on weight loss!

So what are you waiting for! Get that stress sorted today!