Phase I: Starting Your Weight Loss Journey
There comes a point in one's life that you realize you are overweight. There comes a point that you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and the person looking back at you has lost the slim look and has gained a few pounds. Sometime in your life you struggle to zipper up your pants because they have become tight since you have gained weight. One day you try to bend down and pick up a sparkling penny in the parking lot and your belly causes it to be a struggle. How often have you gone to buy clothing and your waist size has gone up….again? Maybe even some coworkers have begun dropping comments about how big you are getting. Yet, you continue to accept the fact that you are overweight and you can not do anything about it.
Does the above sound like your life experience? If so I would like to add one fact and change one word. I would like to change the phrase “and you can not do anything about it” to you are not ready to do anything about it. The fact I would like to add is that you can do something about your weight gain. Every healthy person, without a medical condition can lose weight, without exception! In order to lose the weight you have to be ready to commit yourself to the weightloss journey. There are so many obese people in the United States today that it is being called an epidemic. An obese person today would have to really try hard to not know about the reality of being overweight. The 300,000 people who died last year, from obesity, knew that being overweight was not healthy and they chose to die. It was a long term choice, but nonetheless, it was still a choice.
 The downfall of being overweight is a shorter life span, heart disease, diabetes, back pain, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, osteoporosis to only name a few of the consequences. But if you are not ready to change your lifestyle, you are not ready. You may or may not be only affecting yourself. If you have no family, spouse or children than you can truly state your obesity is a personal matter. If you have children that love you and you have a shorter life span than your death will affect someone else. If you have a spouse or a significant other then becoming bedridden will cause them to have to care for you. Being depressed affects everyone you come in contact with on a daily basis.
If you are not ready to lose weight then you are not ready and no one person can force you, short of chaining you up and locking you in a cell. The food will be there and unless you choose to be thin and are ready to make the choice of a healthy lifestyle then you will fail again and again. If you are overweight and think it only affects you, then chances are you are incorrect in that assumption. If you have tried this diet and that diet and failed this does not mean you are a failure. It just means the diets you chose were a failure. You just need to acknowledge that in order to lose weight there needs to be a lifestyle change. If you have reached this point of disgust with failed diets, then you really have not given up. You are past the point of not being ready, you are ready and you are thinking about it. You have just not been able to achieve the desired results. You are now ready for the change and now you are thinking about how to make that change, you are tired of the failures and are ready for that success.
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