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Hello Doshana...there a lot of misconceptions surrounding macrobiotics and there will continue to be as long as people don't experience this lifestyle for themselves in the proper manner. One of these misconceptions is that it is a diet in the conventional sense, that is, you employ foods (and/or exercise) to get certain types of results and once the results are achieved you resume your previous lifestyle and habits. Even though macrobiotics seems to begin this way, it never ends, as you always need to be making continual adjustments based on continual changes throughout your life. In nature, everything is always changing. Macrobiotics is not a diet nor a cure. Through providing yourself with the proper physical and spiritual nourishment, your body does its own healing. You are just monitoring the situation. The fact that you are overweight means that your body has been given too much to do and can't keep up with the work. This is an unhealthy state and an unhealthy direction. You not only need to lose weight, but you need to address the cause of the weight. In macrobiotics, we call this self-reflection, when you notice that something is, in this case, not right with you. The next step is to try to fix it, or balance it. Most people today go for a symptomatic cure. An extreme example of this would be liposucton, for example. This is a quick fix. Macrobiotics goes to the heart of the matter and requires application over a lifetime. Very difficult, very rewarding. At some point when you are healthy, then you can eat anything you want in moderation as long as you allow the balancing to work. Weight loss does occur in many who begin macrobiotics. Depending upon your condition, constitution, history, family history, and medical history you may or may not lose weight at first. Usually those who do drop to a weight 5 or so pounds below what their normal healthy weight would be and stay around there until their body is in a range of healthy balance. I was thin, lost @25 lbs and stayed that way, maybe even losing more at times, for @4 years. As I began to get better, I could widen my food intake and more weight came. I still am below what I started out at. People freak out at thin and you take a rash of bs about it. It's a drag, but necessary. My suggestion to you is to approach macrobiotics headfirst in the best way you can. Call GOMF at 800 232-2372 and ask for a free catalog. The Self-Healing Cookbook by Kristina Turner, Basic Macrobiotic Cooking by Julia Ferre are good starts for food. The Philosophy of Oriental Medicine by George Ohsawa is good for the head. The Macrobiotic Way by Michio Kushi and Healing Ourselves by Noburo Muramoto are good for both. Check it out. Sooner or later a lot of us have. Bill
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