Okay, so you blew your diet for the last few days. You were doing so well for so long and now you are upset that it took you so long to lose a few ponds and in a brief period of time you gained back a bunch of weight. So what happens now? Do you just give up and resign yourself to being over weight? Do you resign yourself that you are going to get even more obese than you are now? Ultimately, as you know, the choice is yours and your choice is one that will have profound effects on the rest of your life. So why are you feeling so bummed out and depressed for eating poorly for a few days?
You are not in competition with anyone to lose weight, or at least you shouldn’t be in competition with anyone. The only person you need to be in a race to thinness is with yourself. The best reason to lose weight is for health and anything else is a misleading reason. Let us say that again….You should be losing weight for the sole purpose of being healthy. Period! The logic behind this concept is actually liberating for you on your journey to lose weight. If you try to make healthy choices for the sake of being healthy you will lose weight as a byproduct of those choices. If you try to lose weight so you can go to a wedding then you will more than likely fail in that attempt in the long run. A simple reason for your failure after failure at dieting is because diets do not work. What you need to do is change your life style and make better choices. Eat more fruit, drink more water, eat smaller portions and get out and exercise. If you spend the rest of your life trying to make HEALTHY choices and actually make more of those choices than unhealthy choices you will lose weight. If you spend all your efforts depriving yourself of your favorite foods you will slip up and beat yourself up until you feel as if you failed. Instead of starting a diet start a “live-it” and include all the choices of food you love. The trick is to include them in moderation and only after you have made many good choices.
So, if you are banging your head against the wall over a blown diet you need to stop. What you need to do is enjoy the “poor” choices and then pick yourself up and start your weight loss journey again. As you make choices in your day choose wisely. You do not have to stick your hand in every candy jar at work; you just need to stick it in much less often. By allowing yourself a treat every now and then you are not failing you are preventing deprivation. That deprivation is what will wipe out your emotional reservoir for dieting. By allowing a cheeseburger or fries every now and then you are setting up long term success. A diet is not a race to thinness; it is a journey to wellness. To get wellness just take your time and inch toward your goal with lasting dedication. If your diet plans wavered over the weekend that is alright. Just get right back in the weight loss arena and keep going. After all, your weight loss is an ongoing project that really will never have a finish line. When you do lose all the weight you want to lose you then must keep going to maintain that weight loss. That is why you need to plan weight loss around healthy choices as you can not live a life on a diet. Trying to live a life on a diet is why so many people give up and decide that being obese has to be a way of their life.
You will know better and you will just continue down the weight loss path stopping and starting all along the way. By not trying to make a dash you will make it to the end and be able to achieve all of your health goals and in those goals somewhere will be weight loss.
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Posted by ladykwak on 08.25.2008 at 3:17 am// Tagged: Motivation , diet failure, Weight Loss Advice //
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This entry is for the young adults out there trying to lose weight. Put your wallet away and save your money. I am not selling anything because I only want you to do one thing and that is to listen to what I have to say. You are not alone in your question to lose weight. There are millions of young adults just like you who want to lose 5 - 10 or even 100+ pounds. Although you are an individual you are not alone. Although you are sitting in room by yourself at this moment the world is filled with pain you ALL are feeling. Although you may think you are alone your cries fill the world with the silent screams for help. You are over weight and you are young and you want to make a change in your life and that is a pretty cool thing to want to do for yourself.
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Posted by ladykwak on 08.23.2008 at 6:01 am// Tagged: Teenage Weight Loss , Young adults and weight loss //
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Not too long ago the doctor told me that if I did not lose the weight I could develop a multitude of health problems. He went down the list of problems from diabetes to heart disease. At that point in my life I needed to drop over 100 pounds and it seemed as if it would be impossible. I went home and decided that I was going to make a change in my life and that I was going to diet and lose the weight so I could grow older and have a healthy lifestyle. At that time I really did not know where to turn or what I should do to make it happen. I am sorry to say that I wasted money on diet pills and an assortment of weight loss equipment. After a fairly short period of time I realized that no matter what I bought the weight loss was ultimately something I had to do. At that time of my life I did not know that a diet binge day was vital to weight loss success.
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Posted by Mr. Keith on 08.22.2008 at 4:10 am// Tagged: Motivation , Binge //
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I was overweight, out of shape; I was in the category of possible heart attack, diabetes, stroke and a variety of other obesity related diseases. If I went to the movie theatre I would get out of breath walking up to the back rows. I was 46 years old and was 110 pounds overweight. I had tried so many feeble attempts at weight loss. I had tried all sorts of diet plans which I now look back on as being nothing more than fad diets conceived by people who were just trying to make a profit off my quest for seeking weight loss solutions. I sat through season after season of the television show The Biggest Loser and always sat on the couch wishing I would do something about my ever expanding waistline. It was not until the last season that I went to the doctor’s office for a routine physical examination that the full impact of my being overweight hit me. The doctor told me, in a matter of fact way, that if I did not lose weight I would become diabetic. Oddly enough it was the nonchalant sound of the statement that woke me up to my impending reality. I went home that night and there I was, again in front of the television watching The Biggest Loser. I saw Jillian Michaels leading her people on towards weight loss. I was inspired. Read more…
Posted by Mr. Keith on 08.22.2008 at 1:00 am// Tagged: Motivation , Jillian Michaels //
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Long term weight loss is something that does not just happen by luck. Long-term weight loss is the result of a decision to lose weight and then having the sustained motivation to stick with a diet for the duration of the plan. The problem that most weight loss seeking people encounter is that they choose a diet plan only when considering how to lose weight. The person seeking weight loss all too often makes solid plans to lose weight and does not have a plan to actually enjoy life once the weight loss has been achieved. To be able to lose weight for the long term a person needs to be able to plan on creating a method that will carry them through all of the weight loss stages and throughout the rest of their life.
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Posted by ladykwak on 08.20.2008 at 11:30 pm// Tagged: Motivation , Weight loss plan, Weight loss stages //
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I spend more time than most people learning about weightloss and exercise and I answer many questions on various forums concerning weight loss. When I go on these forums I am distressed to hear the same question, phrased differently, over and over again. That question is “How can I lose weight fast?” or How can I lose X # of pounds in a week or before I go on a cruise, or before I go back to school? The situation is different and maybe the weight you want to loose is different but the question is always the same. The basis of the question that I find so disturbing is “How can I lose weight fast?”
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Posted by Mr. Keith on 08.10.2008 at 11:11 pm// Tagged: Motivation , Fast Weight Loss //
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We have been trying to lose weight for twenty years and we have been losing weight for only one year. In our twenty year journey to lose weight we have wasted our money on a treadmill, a multitude of various diets, numerous diet books, specialized diet foods and so much more that we dare not even try to remember. At the end of twenty years we have learned that the diets do not work, the treadmill bores us, the diet books contained information that we could not fit into the rest of our life and ALL diet pills were a hoax. As time went by we grew frustrated with what we learned on the Internet. Parallel with this time we started to learn about websites and the Internet. We learned more about how websites rip people off more than anything. At that point the birth of www.IChooseThin.com took place. We were so tired of all the hype about weight loss and everyone hawking diet pills that were nothing more than a hoax. An offshoot of our (wife and I) website has become the Blog we write in often that has become known as Thin Blog. Thin blog is a place where you can go to gather knowledge on weight loss for free. Thin Blog has become the gate where thousands of people have found www.IChooseThin.com.
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Posted by Mr. Keith on 08.05.2008 at 12:36 am// Tagged: Thin Blog , honest weight loss, Thin Blog //
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The Holy Grail of Weight Loss is what every quick fix dieter is looking for. One day a person wakes up and decides that they want to lose some weight and start doing a bit of exercise and spend some time walking or jogging. The average person dieting spends much time thinking about the calories they are eating and what foods they will deprive themselves from to lose weight. A typical person searching for the Holy Grail of Weightloss equates losing weight with a start date and an end date that is triggered by a number of pounds that are lost. This search for the Holy Grail is the beginning of another diet failure for the average person attempting to loose weight. It is similar to a popular movie where the foolish man drinks from the wrong chalice and is destroyed.
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Posted by Mr. Keith on 08.03.2008 at 4:45 am// Tagged: Weight Loss , Holy Grail of Weight Loss //
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I was at the home of someone who was a stranger to me when I arrived at their door. I was there for a reason that had no association with health, weight loss or fitness. Upon my arrival at the home I met with a woman who was in her 40’s and her daughter who is in the 8th grade. Somehow the conversation turned from the mundane issue of her door installation to the passion I love to discuss, and that would be weight loss. We spent over 90 minutes discussing the issue of diets not working and diet pills all being a hoax among many other related issues. When we discussed the need for exercising she stated that she felt as if she was being selfish when she spent time exercising. She felt as if the time she spent at the fitness center would be spent better if she was doing something for her family members. She mentioned that if she had to leave her home while she was exercising that this was a missed opportunity to spend time with her children or her husband.
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Posted by ladykwak on 08.01.2008 at 1:00 am// Tagged: Weight Loss , Selfish //
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If you are overweight then you run the risk of becoming a type 2 diabetic. That is the plain and simple truth and if you want to run a greater risk of becoming a type 2 diabetic then all you have to do is continue to be overweight and get as little exercise as possible. Since you are here, let us explore exactly what type 2 diabetes is all about. Type II diabetes is something you need to get serious about now or you will regret it for the rest of your life.
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Posted by Mr. Keith on 07.27.2008 at 7:05 pm// Tagged: Uncategorized, Your Health , Type 2 diabetes //
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