The Ego factor in weight management!

GaleHawkins

I came across this subject today when studying about the human ego. Oprah does not see her Ego as her friend it appears to me. Do you see your Ego as friend or foe?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sEVJac5kVIE

formulatedfitness.com/motivation-wanna-lose-weight-3-things-your-ego-needs-to-hear-you-say/

L1zardQueen

I don’t click on links anymore. Can you give me a synopsis?

mph323

L1zardQueen wrote: »

I don’t click on links anymore. Can you give me a synopsis?

It looks like positive self-talk - "I am not the person that others label me" kind of stuff. Lose weight for yourself not others. A positive message but hardly earth-shaking.

nutmegoreo

mph323 wrote: »

L1zardQueen wrote: »

I don’t click on links anymore. Can you give me a synopsis?

It looks like positive self-talk - "I am not the person that others label me" kind of stuff. Lose weight for yourself not others. A positive message but hardly earth-shaking.

mph323

nutmegoreo wrote: »

mph323 wrote: »

L1zardQueen wrote: »

I don’t click on links anymore. Can you give me a synopsis?

It looks like positive self-talk - "I am not the person that others label me" kind of stuff. Lose weight for yourself not others. A positive message but hardly earth-shaking.

Hahahaha!

AnnPT77

Too little or to much ego strength creates lots of problems for people thoughout life, so of course it affects weight management. In this context, calling it "sense of self worth" or "self confidence" might be more sensible, since that seems more to be what both links are talking about (but calling it "ego" sounds more official and science-y).

But (1) I am my body (brain thingie is in there); (2) I've had a kneejerk negative reaction to Wayne Dyer for decades, since reading some of his early writings, and the blog link changes none of that (the opposite, really); and (3) Oprah only makes things more confusing, analytically speaking (though what she means to say, the underlying message, is fine).

If you want to study the role of ego, look for better sources. This is all pop psych crud-ola.

NorthCascades

GaleHawkins wrote: »

I came across this subject today when studying about the human ego. Oprah does not see her Ego as her friend it appears to me. Do you see your Ego as friend or foe?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sEVJac5kVIE

formulatedfitness.com/motivation-wanna-lose-weight-3-things-your-ego-needs-to-hear-you-say/

I see it as an inseparable part of me.

CSARdiver

I would apply Aristotle's Golden Mean in this. An ideal moderate position exists for everyone and this will change throughout one's life based on need. Moving toward the extreme - too much or too little ego ends up badly.