Throw a ball in the air and it comes down. Gravity tends to see to that. My home’s value, unfortunately, went up, then came down. The price of gas in an election year tends to hike upwards early, but amazingly comes down as we get closer to November.  In other cases, things which go down come up. Interest rates (hoping this isn’t the case for a while, at least), inflation, tax rates, and on a personal level, weight when we diet.  It goes down for a while, may stay down for a while, but frustratingly, it comes up again.

Why is it that during our early formative years, weight gain was encouraged, or in many cases ignored? “Clean your plate.” “Take a second helping.” There were rewards for finishing everything- a pat on the back from Grandma and even better…DESSERT! But then life and our bodies shift. We hit our 20′s & 30′s and instead of eating to gain weight, we start watching everything we eat – adding and subtracting calories, fat grams, fibre… We hear that to lose weight we must eat less and exercise more. But when life is most stressful, we long for those old kudos, those rewards we received as kids on a deeper level.  If we do this for our kids are we setting them up for issues with weight? Do we eat for emotional reasons? To relieve stress? To help take our focus off of something else?

If “up and down, up and down” describes your battle with weight, we’d like to invite you to get off of the “Yo-Yo” ride.  You may or may not believe it is possible for weight to come down and stay down for good, and either way, we want to offer an alternative to this year’s resolution to diet and lose weight for 2012.  Our Weight Control Groups start January 10, and promise to provide an environment for success in weight control that is unlike anything you’ve experienced before.  Click here for more information!