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Cari Corbet-Owen   
Thursday, 26 July 2007

Your Body is Like a Stock Market

I’ve recently invested in a course on investing on the stock market.  Well with my passion lying in the area of health and our body – many aspects of it have really made me think.  Your body is just like the stock market – usually in reverse!  Like a stock market graph your scale can go up, down or sideways.

Most people think they can only make money when the market is going up – most of us think we can only be acceptable when our body size is going down.  Truth is you limit your earnings when you believe that you can only make money when the market is going up, and you limit your happiness when you believe you can only be loved if the numbers on your scale are heading down.

Watch the market – it usually rises steadily and then comes down much quicker.  For us, the numbers of the scale usually take a while to go down but heap back up again much faster.  

We’re bullish (positive) when our scale figures and clothes sizes are going down and bearish (negative) when they’re heading up.  

A stock has what is called phase 1 scores (that’s how our body looks from the outside, sort of like our curb appeal) but phase 1 really gives you little indication as to the health of a stock, for that you have to look at it’s inner workings – it’s phase 2 scores.
In the same way, it’s only when we can really look at our health indicators and how healthy our thoughts are about our body that we get a real idea about how well our body is really doing.  

Just as on the stock market we need to maximize our profits (except that ours come not in money, but in living in a joy-filled body) and we need to minimize our risks (which for our body we do when we avoid unsustainable diets).

Cari Corbet-Owen is the founder of Mind Over Fatter. Visit www.mindoverfatter.co.za
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