A question I received via Email about losing weight. She asked why the weight isn't coming off. "I'm doing all the right stuff, eating the right foods". The question I asked, are you doing all the right stuff and eating all the right foods all the time?
Losing weight is so much more difficult them keeping the weight off. Losing weight has to become a way of life. I'm not talking about the person that wants to lose 10 pounds, I'm referring to losing 30 or more pounds.
Weight loss has to become a passion. Two examples I can give. One is the person that loves to paint. Paints anytime they have free time, reads about painting, dreams about painting, you get the "picture". The second is a recovering alcoholic. They didn't become a recovering alcoholic by letting nature take its course or by not drinking every once in a while. It became a passion, a need to stay sober.
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To guarantee success in weight loss, you will need to have this same sort of determination. You have to wake up every morning with weight loss being the first thing on your mind. Nothing is more important then weight loss. This does not mean that you throw all other responsibilities out the window, but you will need to make sure that all of them work around your main goal of weight loss.
It's tuff to stay as focused as you need to in order to lose weight. There is so much pressure to do quite the opposite. Fast food is everywhere you turn, and time is in short supply. Friends want you to lose focus by asking you over for dinner or wanting to go to a restaurant. The television is just sitting there, begging to be turned on. If you live in a large metropolitan area, you may not feel safe going for a walk in the evening after work. I call these, weight loss failing pressures
As I wrote earlier, you need to stay focused and committed to your goal. Don't let any one, or and thing stand in your way.
I have heard may people talk about not having the time it takes to be prepared to face the daily weight loss failing pressures like the ones I mentioned earlier. Things like preparing food for lunch and snacks, going to the gym and so on.
Here's what it comes down to. Let's look at your clothes closet. In the beginning you can add more and more clothing without any problems of it becoming to full. Eventually, however the inevitable will happen and you can no longer fit any more clothing on the rack. You will need to go through and get rid of the clothes that are not as important to you as the new ones you just bought. Another Idea is to reorganize to make better use of the space you have.
Your time is the same way. You will need to eliminate something that is less important the losing weight, or reorganize the time you have to facilitate the weight loss program. If you are at all like me, you have already organized and reorganized every which way, so more then likely, you will need to drop something off your schedule. Let's keep in mind, like I said at the beginning, weight loss is much harder then weight maintenance. What this means, is once the weight is off, you should be able to start doing what ever it was you eliminated to make time available for your weigh lose program.
I have seen so many people make the commitment to losing weight, and yet they still fail. Of the ones that where determined the most, it came down to one of two things One being they didn't have good information on how to do it, and the second, they didn't make the time commitment that was needed for success.
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