Having Trouble Losing Weight? See if You're Making This Mistake!

One of the most common challenges facing the people in the industrialized world is the challenge of getting and remaining thin and healthy. However, the overwhelming statistics about weight loss reveal that even those who manage to lose the weight that they want to lose are unable to keep it off. In fact, 95% of all people who achieve their ideal weight are unable to remain at that weight for any significant amount of time. So what is the secret to getting and remaining healthy instead of becoming one of the unfortunate 95%? If you are interested in the answer to this question then keep reading, because there is one essential principle which most people miss and which can make all the difference for you…

The Secret to Healthy Living

If you are someone who is interested in healthy living you've probably heard about the importance of consistent exercise and proper eating in order to have a healthy body and a to maintain a healthy weight. At the same time, you might also be interested in taking care of your mental, emotional and spiritual health and if so, you must contribute to developing those areas of your life as well. Considering this, it might be easy to become overwhelmed by the pressing need to balance your time and energy in order to have all of these areas of your life in order. Is it possible to have all of these things in order and to remain healthy in your body, or must you sacrifice one for the sake of the other?

The answer to this question is that it is impossible to actually separate these different parts of your life. In fact, giving sufficient attention to each of these areas and improving your life balance is the only way to maintain a physically healthy body. This is because it takes emotional strength to push yourself to exercise and eat right on the days when you don't feel like doing so. If your spiritual life or your relationships or even your financial life are not in proper order, you are going to be too emotionally drained to commit the necessary attention to caring for your body.

In other words, having a healthy body is all about having a well balanced and healthy lifestyle in all areas of your life: health, relationships, environment, career and even your financial life. This is because proper life balance is the only way to truly defeat the number one enemy of healthy living.

The Enemy of Healthy Living

In spite of the fact that it might be easy to assume that poor eating habits, lack of physical activity or even substance abuse problems are the major causes of ill health, the reality is that there is one thing which can damage the physical well-being of your body faster than anything else. That one thing is emotional stress. Emotional stress is the cause of the majority of major health problems. In fact, many medical professionals tell us that stress is responsible for 75 to 85% of all serious health problems. This means that even if you are eating well and remaining active, that if you have extreme emotional stress due to financial problems, relationship problems or unhappiness in your career, you might be building your life up with one hand while tearing it down with the other.

Not only that, additional emotional stress can make it very difficult to remain committed to your goals of exercising and eating well on a consistent basis. Again, this is because getting and remaining healthy in your physical body requires for you to build a healthy lifestyle in all areas of your life. Having this kind of balance will bring you the emotional fortitude that you will need in order to focus on taking care of your body instead of constantly fighting off emotional stress and worry.

So What is the First Step?

So now that you understand how essential life balance is in the cultivation of a physically healthy body, you can begin with a plan which helps you to balance and to manage your life according to your own values. This will help you to gain control over your time and your energy instead of having your life controlled by exterior circumstances. Having this kind of a system will give you a plumb-line by which you can measure your progress and which you can go back to in order to make sure that you are on the right track to developing a healthy lifestyle.

This is where completing your own “Wheel of Life” can help you see which areas you need to work on to improve your own life balance. You may need to work on a totally different area from your health for you to actually be able to lose weight. Once you work on other areas of your own “Wheel of Life” you may find that the weight falls off far easier due to your overall improvements in your mental, emotional and spiritual health. One tool that you may find useful is our online interactive "Wheel of Life" which you can access by clicking here.

Good luck with balancing your weight and remember to keep all things in balance.