The Power of Renewal By Nicolaus Bloom, Certified Integrative Health Coach W
hat I love about the body is that it is always working. Working to digest our meals, use up glucose, burn body fat, and heal wounds. It’s a wonder and a mystery.
Imagine a cut on the hand. We cover it up with a Band Aid and it clears up on its own. Really humbles us to the wisdom of our bod- ies working behind the scenes to make sure things work properly. We, in our conscious state, have a choice to either muck it up or help it along.
In normal conditions, the body is a beautiful example of great optimism. It keeps on righting itself even in the face of adversity. The body is like a river; a constant flow in the direction of health and healing. Again, our choice, do we work against that flow or do we float in concert with the current?
It is exactly the same for weight loss. Some of us experience the prospect of weight loss as a lonely, arduous, uphill battle. We imagine our unwanted weight sitting there, dormant, just goad- ing us to try to get rid of it. But, really, the physiological process of losing weight is going on all the time. Our fat is a living, ever-
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changing, organ-like substance. Fat cells being created AND being broken down all the time. It is a delicate balance and we can tip the scales in the right direction if we want to.
If we choose whole, natural foods in the right quantity rather
than eat sugar, processed foods, refined flour products, and chemi- cals, we can be that helpful partner in this ongoing, fat burning flow. We aren’t alone pushing this boulder up a hill. We do this weight loss thing in partnership with the automatic, on-going func- tioning of our physiology.
Do you recall that feeling of having “momentum”? You get a couple of solid weeks in, you start to see pounds drop on the scale, and you feel like you’ve got that classic feeling of “momentum.” Well, that is you flowing down the river of weight loss.
Sounds simple enough, right? Well, the physiological process of weight loss can be simple. Admittedly, though, the part we play in the process isn’t easy. The challenge - the uphill battle, the not- so-easy part - really lies in our ability to stay devoted, to maintain our faith that good things will happen.
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