Are you really getting ready to go on another diet? Which one is it this time? The no meat, no white foods, all meat, vegetables only, shakes, pills, surgery? Whew, I was starting to feel a pinch in the old fingertips trying to type these different diet fads that many people fall for.
Please tell me you are not going down that road again. I don't want to see you get hurt and quite frankly, you are doing more harm to your body and overall health than good.
There is only one way to lose weight and keep it off.
It has nothing to do with pills, shakes, greens, knives, or any other diet fad celebrity so and so is touting this week. We all know the secret but we let fast success deceive us into thinking we've finally done it. Then, we wonder why we have to search for our fat pants a few months down the road.
I'd be willing to bet that clues to this secret reside in several rooms throughout your house. There really is a special secret for losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle. Oops, I may have given it away. Oh boy, I am not sure I can contain the excitement anymore, I just may burst.
Back in 2009 I discovered the secret purely by accident. I spent many years in the gym, tracking the latest fad from Body for Life, to the Atkins craze, the cleanse coup, and a host of other books, pamphlets, literature, commercialism and, well, I hope you get the idea by now. In 2009 I weighed the most I have ever weighed in my life. I literally squeezed the life out of a scale we had had since our wedding day.
While taking a trip down the driveway to throw away our beloved scale, I reflected on how I had ballooned to a whopping 327 pounds. Sure, I could blame the fact I went from playing ball and delivering furniture to coaching ball and teaching. Dare I blame the constant aching in my joints that makes me so lazy sometimes that I don't even want to walk to the car to go out for dinner? Could I claim it was because I started my own business and was working more hours? Sure, I could use all of those excuses, but they were just that, blatant excuses that forced me to buy slip on shoes. I got tired of needing a nap after I bent over to tie my shoes.
The secret was staring me in the face on a daily basis. When I brushed my teeth, the secret was there. When I shaved, the secret was there. When I washed my hands, put in my contacts, or need to get the not so cool drugs I need to keep me alive. The secret was ME.
I had to stop thinking of my healthy weight as the lowest weight I had ever been before in my life. I had to stop comparing myself to others. I had to find my healthy weight for this quarter of the game my life is in. I had to actually do the work to find my body style and my ideal weight. I had to start asking myself things like, "Did my body shape or style play a role in my weight issues? "How much of my weight was fat?" Where was I holding the dreaded extra weight? I had to get my mind right in order to get my body right.
I had to know myself inside and out so I could begin to create a LIFESTYLE change. I had to go all in forever, so I would put an end to the dizzying roller coaster ride my body was taking. It wasn't doing the organs any good as I creep up in age.
We've all seen some success with weight loss, but we keep putting it on, and doing this over and over again, and again. Does this sound boring and monotonous? Good, I hope it does and I hope it resonates deep within the depths of your soul. Down to the depths of the lighter healthier person inside.
Here is HOW you have final success and live a healthier lifestyle. Do the things you do to lose the weight EVERY DAY. Modify when you get to the ideal weight as determined by doing the work describe above. If you need to TRACK your progress daily with the aid of the device that works best for you. (Phone, actual planners, notebook, etc.)
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