Why is it weight released, not lost?

[RawSinger]

I've browsed RFT a lot and I'm always reading "Weight released instead of weight lost. I know this is an odd question but why do a lot of raw-fooders say released instead of lost?

[Rawkinlocs]

I think it has to do with the whole thing about "words" and the power behind them. When you 'release' something...you have let it go. But when you "lose" something, it can be "found", obtained, recovered...again. So some of our members prefer to use the wordage, "weight released" rather than "weight lost".

[Aleesha Sattva]

yup... that's why i use the term released. i'm not EVER going to bring it back onto my body!!! :D

[RawSinger]

Okay. I figured it was something about the semantics. That's no small thing. There is power in positive thinking, as our cognitions (and the way we word them) control how we feel. Just wanted to know now instead of asking a silly question like that in another year :o

Thanks raw peeps!

[Aleesha Sattva]

light, lean, healthy being!!!! that's my mantra!

[RawSinger]

You are a true inspiration to me, recycling goddess!

[Aleesha Sattva]

happy to inspire... happy to be inspired :) either one works for me :D

[RawSinger]

recycling goddess: I looked at your before and after pictures in your post (amazing) and I'm going to do before and afters because of it. Your pictures and your words are the kind of things that could keep me raw! I appreciate everything you have to say!

[Frugal Raw]

Hey RawSinger! You're right in there with RG and I! RG and I have been releasing our weight for the same amount of time and at pretty much the same rate. I agree - it's much better to release it than it is to lose it and find it creeping back up on you again! :eek:

[Arky]

In addition to the semantics, there's also some factual basis for the term 'released', in so much that the consumption of mass-market processed foods can lead to a build up of toxins and foreign chemicals within the body. When the liver is unable to effectively break all of these down for elimination, the body deals with the overwhelming onslaught of toxic substances by storing them as 'safely' as it can, under the circumstances. One such method is to bind the toxins within fat cells and store these fat cells at various convenient places around the body, with the 'intention' that one day, when the daily onslaught of dietary and environmentally-ingested toxins subsides, they be broken down again using the freed-up detoxification capacity of the liver and other eliminative organs. Therefore, when one begins to eliminate processed, toxin-laden foods from the diet, and simultaneously consumes foods laden with beneficial phyto nutrients and enyzmes, the body is able to begin breaking down old toxic deposits and so no longer needs the fat cell 'containers' for the toxins that have finally been dealt with and eliminated from the body. In that way, too, then, fat can be considered to be 'released', and of course, this fat has 'mass' or 'weight' :)

The ingenuity of the human body never ceases to amaze me...


J.

[Anastazia]

In addition to the semantics, there's also some factual basis for the term 'released', in so much that the consumption of mass-market processed foods can lead to a build up of toxins and foreign chemicals within the body. When the liver is unable to effectively break all of these down for elimination, the body deals with the overwhelming onslaught of toxic substances by storing them as 'safely' as it can, under the circumstances. One such method is to bind the toxins within fat cells and store these fat cells at various convenient places around the body, with the 'intention' that one day, when the daily onslaught of dietary and environmentally-ingested toxins subsides, they be broken down again using the freed-up detoxification capacity of the liver and other eliminative organs. Therefore, when one begins to eliminate processed, toxin-laden foods from the diet, and simultaneously consumes foods laden with beneficial phyto nutrients and enyzmes, the body is able to begin breaking down old toxic deposits and so no longer needs the fat cell 'containers' for the toxins that have finally been dealt with and eliminated from the body. In that way, too, then, fat can be considered to be 'released', and of course, this fat has 'mass' or 'weight' :)

The ingenuity of the human body never ceases to amaze me...


J.

Wow, LOVE the way you explain that!!! :D
Thanks! :D :D
~Anastazia~

[RawSinger]

I second that, Arky. Very nice explanation!

[Aleesha Sattva]

recycling goddess: I looked at your before and after pictures in your post (amazing) and I'm going to do before and afters because of it. Your pictures and your words are the kind of things that could keep me raw! I appreciate everything you have to say!

ah thanks... i'm grinning from ear to ear... doing a happy dance!!! :D

[rawererin]

I agree, it's about the meaning of words, the power they have, I like the term "I've released X-amount of weight" but I'm still in the mind frame of LOOSING weight!