Ideal Weight with a Stoic Will

By Claudio Pardo Molina

These steps are based on my thesis that Chile and practically all of America have high rates of obesity because our actions tend to be dominated by external stimuli rather than by our own decisions, which can be dominated by the Stoic philosophy described by Epictetus. In his 'Inquiry', translated from the Greek that would come to mean a small manual.

This philosopher had as his motto 'Absent of passions, affections and opinions'. I think this slogan already gives us an idea of ​​the recommendations that I will write in this book and I will only outline them to tempt the reader.

* Absent of passions: Generally, we are hungry because the pleasure that food gives us calms our sorrows, encourages us or even takes away our anxiety. This book shows us that passions are conditioned by external stimuli, but first, we must understand what we want so from that point we can discover what we are passionate about.

* Absent of affection: We want to eat because we feel so stimulated with a bar of chocolate that nowadays it is believed that it would generate almost the same pleasure as an orgasm. In this book, you will discover that you will be free from hunger when you free yourself from attachment to the people and things around you by lowering your expectations of them.

* Absent of opinions: We want to eat because we feel attacked by people who we believed were our friends who finally betrayed us. But this book will show that the idea of ​​loyalty is just an opinion we made of the other person, an expectation which does not mean it is true.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Nov 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071573822

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to all the women of the 21st century aware of the emerging society, full of humanistic values ​​combined with an exclusively materialistic perspective of the last century.

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'You are nothing but imagination, and you are not what it seems at all'

Content

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK 7

PHILOSOPHY OF IDEAL WEIGHT 9

STEP: 1 DEPEND

STEP: 2 WISH

STEP: 3 TRUTH

STEP: 4 INHERITANCE

STEP: 5 REVIEW

STEP: 6 GOODS

STEP: 7 WISH

STEP: 8 WISH

STEP: 9 FREEDOM

STEP: 10 VIRTUE

STEP: 11 LOSE

STEP: 12 GIVE UP

STEP: 13 CRITICIZE

STEP: 14. FREEDOM, DEPEND

STEP: 15. ELCOTCLE

STEP: 16. SHARE

STEP: 17. ROL

STEP: 18. PRESAGE

STEP: 19. ENVY, DESPISE

STEP: 20. OFFEND

STEP: 21. DIE

STEP: 22. CONCENTRATE

STEP: 23. A-STOP-BE

STEP: 24. DEPEND ON YOU

STEP: 25. BUY AND SELL

STEP: 26. WISH

STEP: 27. EVIL DOESN'T EXIST

STEP: 28. POSITIVE THINKING

STEP: 29. EVALUATE

STEP: 30. PLACE

STEP: 31. PIETY

STEP: 32. GUESS

STEP: 33. KNOW HOW TO DO

STEP: 34. IMAGINE

STEP: 35. OPINION OF OTHERS

STEP: 36. LOGICAL OPERATIONS

STEP: 37. PLACE

STEP: 38. CEDER

STEP: 39. DO NOT GIVE

STEP: 40. EPHEMERAL BEAUTY

STEP: 41. BODY

STEP: 42. OFFEND

STEP: 43. THE RIGHT HANDLE

STEP: 44. ABSURD

STEP: 45. INTERPRET

STEP: 46. BOOST

STEP: 47. DISPLAY

STEP: 48. DIFFERENCE

STEP: 49. NO HURRY BUT NO PAUSE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Acknowledgement

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To the inspiring muse and mother of my five children, Giannina Colombo.

My father Cronos and my mother Chaos.

To my dear teachers, who have awakened in me an insatiable need to know and contribute to society.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK

These steps are based on my thesis that Chile and practically all of America have high rates of obesity because our actions tend to be dominated by external stimuli rather than by our own decisions, which can be dominated by the Stoic philosophy described by Epictetus. In his 'Inquiry', translated from the Greek that would come to mean a small manual.

This philosopher had as his motto 'Absent of passions, affections and opinions'. I think this slogan already gives us an idea of ​​the recommendations that I will write in this book and I will only outline them to tempt the reader.

* Absent of passions: Generally, we are hungry because the pleasure that food gives us calms our sorrows, encourages us or even takes away our anxiety. This book shows us that passions are conditioned by external stimuli, but first, we must understand what we want so from that point we can discover what we are passionate about.

* Absent of affection: We want to eat because we feel so stimulated with a bar of chocolate that nowadays it is believed that it would generate almost the same pleasure as an orgasm. In this book, you will discover that you will be free from hunger when you free yourself from attachment to the people and things around you by lowering your expectations of them.

* Absent of opinions: We want to eat because we feel attacked by people who we believed were our friends who finally betrayed us. But this book will show that the idea of ​​loyalty is just an opinion we made of the other person, an expectation which does not mean it is true.

PHILOSOPHY OF IDEAL WEIGHT

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We will achieve the ideal weight when we understand that some things depend on us and others do not, which will reduce much of the hunger we feel daily. Because this dependency unleashes passions, affections and opinions that only make us eat more and more or, at the other extreme, stop eating to sickly levels. Anyway, I want to clarify that this book will only focus on losing weight until you reach an ideal one. I will not deal with the problem of very underweight people.

If you are fat or feel overweight and this has motivated you to buy this book, you must begin by accepting that what happens in the world is not always your responsibility because the only thing that DOES depend on you are your thoughts and actions and DO NOT depend on you the thoughts and actions of the others. Indeed, your actions can positively or negatively influence the actions of the others, but to achieve your ideal weight you must focus first on yourself.

On you there depend the opinions, inclinations, desires and distastes but there does not depend on you the old age