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    Nature's Guide to Great Shape
    Nature's Guide to Great Shape
    Nature's Guide to Great Shape
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    Nature's Guide to Great Shape

    By Agnes Gardener

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    Learn how to utilize the body's natural resources for losing weight and getting into shape. It won't necessarily happen very quickly, but it will happen easily; and the important thing is that it will happen, that it won't be bordering on the impossible. Weight excess seems to be a proof of the body's inability to maintain its own well-being, and this view justifies our struggle against it, which will make things even worse. Crash diets, well, crash eventually, bringing more weight gain in their wake, and other, less crazy, diet regimes also curb your earthly freedom to an extent that makes you or your body quite right to rebel. Instead of going against the grain and trying to force results by diets and other methods, you can work along with your body. This book will help you reassess your body image, which is not only how you think you look, but also what you think about how your body works, what it is capable of and how you should treat it. There is nothing you should buy, learn or follow, just what you understand from your immediate experiences of your own body if you give it the right kind of attention. “Based on a true story”, this is how I came to deal with my weight problems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAgnes Gardener
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301582662
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      Book preview

      Nature's Guide to Great Shape - Agnes Gardener

      Introduction

      If you want to look great, you go on a diet, don't you? You shouldn't. The trouble with dieting is not what diet you choose, how well you do it or how long you do it. The trouble with dieting is the fact that you do it. There's nothing that could fool your body more than this.

      For 14 years of my life I, was trying to slim down. That means that for 14 years I considered my body wrong, ugly and unable to function in a proper way by itself. I also had to think of myself as somebody hopelessly gone wrong. Not well in the head, not well in the soul, trying to force myself to achieve something I wanted really badly, and keep failing. There had to be some trouble with me. In hindsight, it was also true in a way. The feeling that you, a constant dieter, a serial dieter or a compulsive eater, feel that there is something that should be put right — and put right once and for all — is correct. Nobody could tell you, as nobody could tell me, Everything is just fine as it is, you're OK the way you look and the way you feel.

      But somebody could have told me, as now I am trying to tell you, about the true nature of these troubles and the straightest simplest way out of them. So, in this book, there will be a few things to consider, to try and to practise that make the troubles go away and make the bad feelings about yourself go away.

      Or you could be a successful, happy dieter with a nice strong and slender figure and the empowered feeling of achievement, of being in control, of being in the right. Even then, if you chose this book to read for a hint on how to do it even better, how, for example, to pay a lesser price for all that you want, these thoughts could still be for you.

      Let me start right with the conclusion: your body already knows everything it needs to know about how to get into the best shape. The work of making this shape show up consists of the single action of letting your body do its thing. In this book we will discover and gently remove all the unnecessary interference. We will get the die out of dieting: the failed results, the dark feelings, the hard work — whatever puts you down. What if there will be nothing left of dieting? I hope that by the time we reach the end of the book, you won't mind it at all. What I will suggest is not a different diet using different rules and not even a change of lifestyle based on different principles, just a different way of looking at some things that brings on the necessary changes effortlessly.

      That was the idea I came upon after 14 years of dieting, and as it happened 15 years ago

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