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Happy Wednesday, Sault Ste. Marie! For today's online psychic answer, I'm responding to an anonymous seeker who asks,
I'm dieting and trying to lose weight. Can you give me any advice to help me balance my diet?
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Congratulations on your decision to take charge of your body. I think you'll be really happy when the results start to come through for you. To answer your question, I think it's most helpful to examine your needs, habits, and desires. In that sense, this reading probably doesn't tell you anything you don't already know. I wish I could say something shocking, like, um... eat bacon and grapefruit? But it just isn't so. Here's what we've got.
Your habits are the most difficult thing to overcome. You clearly enjoy luxury and living a rich, pleasurable life, and that almost certainly includes a rich, pleasurable diet. So the first obstacle you're going to face is finding food that tastes good, but isn't complete crap. I promise you it's out there, and I promise you can enjoy brown rice and lentils with veggies and snow peas as much as a burger, but you have to teach your body away from the unnatural, grotesque reality of massive amounts of fat, cheese, and meat.
The other important thing to consider is your desires. Now, if you want to diet and exercise to get a trim body and attractive appearance, then that's fine and well. But is that what you want? Or do you want to live a vital life and be happy with you are? In that sense, consider your diet to be a means to an end, with that end being you able to live life on your own terms and accomplish real, meaningful things. So I'd encourage you not to worry about much weight you lose - although that's certainly a worthwhile goal - but instead on how much you feel you're able to do the things you want to do without feeling sick or tired. There's a strong correlation between your habits and your desires, and you can make that work for you.
And as far as your needs go, I wonder if you're not ignoring something else very important? There's a strong social component to your diet success, and I don't mean in terms of a support group or friends to keep you accountable to your goals. Instead, this is about recognizing how your friends and acquaintances go against your desires and actually undermine your diet. The hardest part about dieting is the lifestyle changes that will require you say "no" to eating crap food with your friends, drinking every week with your friends, and so on. There's more to be said, but I think you see the way forward. Think about it.
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