Gabriel Method

Did you know that your body has a mind of its own??? That it reacts to the things in your life? That it goes into fight or flight when you are faced with stress or fear or other triggers?? The thing nowadays is that we don't always have the chance to fight or flight, at least not physically, but our body just reads the stress and responds accordingly... For some of us, it responds to stress by deciding that the best way to handle that is to slim right down so that we can be as speedy as possible in the flight mode... It decides that that best way to keep us "safe" is for us to be slim and trim. So no matter what we eat, we don't really gain any weight. For others of us... our body decides that the best way for us to be "safe" is to put on weight, either because that will help us be better fighters (nobody picks a fight with the big person!)... or because our body senses that we are in famine mode... Nowadays, we don't always have a shortage of food (unless we are dieting), but we do experience lack in other areas, lack of love, lack of time, lack of... You name it... And our body doesn't distinguish between the stress of food famine or time famine... it just understands famine and starts packing on the weight...

Make sense??? It's the premise of a new weight loss method called the Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel... He says that if your body wants to be fat, nothing you can do will make any difference... at least not in reducing your food consumption (i.e. dietting) or increasing your exercise. But if you can convince your body that it is safe and it is safer to be slimmer... the weight just falls off... He was 440 lbs and in a few years went down to under 200 lbs... without dietting or excessive exercising... So... what do you think?? I bought the book, read the book and it makes sense to me. He says there are things like emotional obesity and mental obesity, emotional and mental factors that contribute to our weight gain... The trick is to get our body on our side...