You are fat. Chubby, chunky, husky, robust, rotund, plump, portly, large, stout, stubby, blubbery, flabby: fat. Look in the mirror, at your pants size, on the scale. Perhaps it crept up on you one fast food lunch at a time. Maybe you’ve always been heavy. Either way, you’ve decided; today is your day. Your road to skinny starts now.
But how? There are of course the usual answers. Diet, exercise, and eating right. Of course, you respond. I knew you were going to say that. Everyone knows that, it is obvious. But really, how? What diet, which exercise? What if you don’t succeed? Well, you’ll just be fat, the way you are now.
The hardest part on the journey to weight loss will not be in the gym. Sweating will not be what brings you down. Your downfall will come very slowly. You start off excited and energetic, and then the doubt will set in. Or maybe the worry, or the time constraints. What can you do to deal with all of these things? What is the miracle key to finally dropping the weight that is holding you down for so long? The answer is easy. The highway to thin just got a little less hard.
The single most important factor to ensuring a successful weight loss is this: determine your why. Why do you want to lose the weight? Of course you want to be healthy or look attractive, but what truly guides your desire. Think deeply: envision yourself thin. What are you doing, where are you going, what are you wearing? This is your answer. Write it down. Flesh it out until it is exactly, precisely the moment you are working toward.
If you want to be healthier, more beautiful, and keep pace with your children, you ‘why’ may be “to roller blade at the park with your kids wearing your new pair of hot pants.” Make it real for yourself. Keep it in a journal somewhere. Write down at least 10 good ‘whys’. Now that you have them written they are in stone and easily referenced. Use these as motivation to continue on your journey and as a reminder of why you are doing what you are doing. Is it a vacation that you want?
A picture of the small seats on European public transportation will remind you to keep on that treadmill. A clothes catalog in the take out menu drawer will magically remind you how to make a salad. Your weight loss journey and the motivation it takes to make it triumphant are very personal, but your whys shouldn’t be. Remember to share them with them people close to you. Telling others about your goals will give you yet another reason to do well.
Regardless of what it is, your answer lies within you. Your reason why will ultimately be the driving force behind all that you do in your life. In this particular instance, having your why will be the force that forces you to act (or not act) in order to achieve your goal. Your why will get you up out of bed or off the couch. It will lace your trainers. Your why will make that salad look great and the sore muscles feel victorious. Armed with your own personal secret weapon, your success is all but guaranteed.
Dorthy Weatherbush has written many articles on the subject of diet and weight loss and is considered an expert in her field. She has written several review on the Medifast Diet and the benefits of using a meal replacement program like Medifast. She believes that they can be truly beneficial but should only be done under the care and watch of a physician.
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