You type into google “Fat Burning Foods For Weight Loss”.
Your heartbeat quickens as you smile in joy. Whew! In front of your eyes you see a promising list of foods.
You have heard of these foods before.
Oh good! I’ll just get these foods next time I go to the store. Then I’ll burn fat without having to stress.
That’s what you think to yourself. So you take a screenshot and make a list:
- Fatty Fish
- MCT Oil
- Coffee
- Eggs
- Coconut Oil
- Green Tea
- Whey Protein
- Apple Cider Vinegar
You go to the store. Then you buy the foods.
Afterwards you feel good. Next you eat the foods.
Finally, you feel good.
You check the scale.
It went down a pound!
Wahoo!!! It’s working!!!
Incredible, positive, joyous uplifting energy surges through your core.
Finally, a simple, straightforward easy to understand way to lose weight that actually works!!!
A week later you’ve lost another 1lb.
The week after that you’ve lost another 1/2 lb. So far, so good. You’re at 2.5 lbs so far.
A week later you gain 1 lb back. The week after you lose a lb.
4 weeks now. 2.5 lbs lower than what you started at.
Something comes up. A vacation, a party, whatever.
You have a ton of fun! You enjoy yourself a bit too much.
A twinge of guilt occurs. Or perhaps a major twinge of guilt …
If you are highly aware of your emotions and thoughts, you realize you’ve put the “fat burning foods” in the back of your mind.
A couple days later you aren’t even thinking about weight loss.
Nothing has changed.
Keep reading to learn about why this cycle of weight gain and weight loss is like the concept of Samsara in Buddhism, and what Jim Carrey has to say about this.
Samsara btw, is commonly symbolized as a wheel of suffering.
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