Missing Links by Daniel Petra

Author:Daniel Petra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

M AINTENANCE DIETS

An absolutely fantastic amount of material and programs of all kinds have been developed in order to help people lose weight and eat better. I have myself benefited immensely from some of the above and little or not at all from others. I have discovered that for any diet to work effectively and consistently, over a long period of time, it has to be:

Realistic, responsible, reasonable and economical = practical

These qualities and characteristics apply not only to our diet. They may apply to any and all processes that we choose to utilize in order to heal our Total Selves.

Realistic: means that a process or a diet needs to work consistently over the long-run. For example, our diet needs to be delicious and thoroughly satisfying, or we will not be able to “stick” with it. In the case of a reducing diet, we must not expect it to work for us too quickly. This implies that we need to apply some common sense. Just think of how long it has taken us to gain all our excess weight and for how long we have tried to get rid of it.

Responsible: means that we are ultimately responsible for our own health, happiness and well-being. It means that we, and we alone, will ultimately suffer the consequences of our own actions. This is true even when such responsibility may be shared, and even though we may be receiving the best care available. Just as we are responsible for the consequences of our decisions and of our actions, health professionals are responsible for their own decisions and for their own actions. That’s why we have the right to sue them for malpractice.

As far as our health is concerned, most of us know that: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” However, I have observed that most people do not utilize prevention sufficiently. This appears to be quite true as far as our health is concerned. This is why I intend to emphasize prevention as much as possible. I also intend to show how we may practice prevention on a daily basis: in all areas of our lives, including our diet. Being responsible also means that we need to do our best to avoid doing ourselves and our health any unnecessary harm.

Reasonable : means that whatever we attempt, needs to be tailored to our own particular needs and to our own capacities. This applies also to our diet. Reasonable means that we need to avoid punishing ourselves by trying to do too much or by trying to proceed too quickly. Reasonable also means that we try to lower our expectations. We may also try not to waste our precious time and energy by being perfectionists. Please keep in mind that what may work for somebody may not work as well for somebody else. What may have worked well for us in the past may not prove to be quite as effective in the future.

Economical : this is a word that is quite popular with teachers of martial arts.

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