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Originally Posted by James81 
But at the top of the list is your list of beliefs. If you don't tackle them and change them one by one, you aren't going to get the results you desire from diet and exercise. This game is like 50% beliefs, 50% putting your ass in gear and doing something. (as is most anything in life, now that I think about it)
So in a way you are right....you must first tend to your beliefs if you want to see measurable, permanent change. But don't just discredit diet and exercise so easily either. Both are equally important.
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This is the truth as I understand it to be.
I'm in no way discrediting diet and exercise, but I think they need a more integrated place in the scheme of things as opposed to being viewed as the one true answer. They can absolutely be part of the health/weight loss answer for some people who are in that place. Fact is though, sometimes changing one belief can make the difference between seemingly effortless weight loss and weight loss which seems as difficult as climbing Everest.
For example, cortisol is a hormone shown to increase the body's tendency to hold fat particularly around the middle. Someone who feels unsafe will have natural tendency to produce more of this hormone. Working on feeling safer and therefore more relaxed, joyful and at ease in the world will automatically affect one's physical chemical composition which can have a direct affect upon how much weight the body naturally holds on to or not. Someone who feels safer may also feel naturally more inspired to spend more time outdoors (as opposed to hiding behind a desk or inside all day), may feel inclined to taking more fun "risks" such as riding their bike to work or trying water skiing, and someone who feels safer will have less tendency to self-medicate with sweets or fats.
So, you nay-sayers tell me: what is more effective in the long run? Forcing yourself self day in and day out to bang your head against a brick wall hoping to get to a place of joy and ultimately quitting from exhaustion? OR getting to the place of joy internally and having the physical manifestations of that joy slide naturally into your reality?