Mental and emotional challenges sometimes can be the biggest hurdles to overcome when trying to lose weight. Burying loneliness, anger or boredom in a half-gallon of ice cream can be easier than facing what’s really wrong. Enduring the lack of support from family members and friends also may be the way of least resistance, but it won’t take off the pounds.
Experts – and individuals who successfully have lost the pounds – say those who want to win the battle of the scale must identify the inner demons that derail their efforts.”When it comes down to it, it’s all about what goes on inside,” says Rachel Smith, 31,of Westminster, who has lost 99 pounds. “Weight loss is so much more emotional and intellectual than it is physical.” – SHEBA R. WHEELER
