Seems like we all want to lose weight these days. Being on a diet is easy when you have a full stomach but devilishly hard when you’re hungry.
Maybe you could consider one of these weird approaches to losing weight?
1. Take diet pills. There’s an obvious attraction to taking a pill to lose weight. There’s no tedious exercise involved, no hunger pangs due to cutting back on food. Taking diet pills to lose weight is the definition of wishful thinking. Diet pills work by either suppressing your appetite or by speeding up your metabolism and neither one of these methods is good for your body and can be potentially hazardous. Even if you did lose weight with diet pills, where does that leave you? You haven’t changed your eating habits or your lifestyle and, as soon as you stop taking the pills, the weight is guaranteed to come right back.
2. Go on a fad diet. There seems to be no end of fad diets to choose from. You could go on an all baby food diet or maybe the diet that only allows you to eat foods that start with a “B”. Eat all the bananas, broccoli and Brussels sprouts you want and you’re guaranteed to lose weight. The problem with diets like these is not that they don’t work. They usually do work. You will lose weight because of the calorie restrictions that they impose. The problem is that the diet has to come to an end eventually and when it does, your weight will come right back. You didn’t change your eating habits or your exercise habits and soon you will be right back where you started.
3. Forget about trying to cut back on portions and just make one simple adjustment: After every bite of food that you take, get up and walk around the table. Don’t cheat, don’t run, go all the way around the table. This method, as crazy as it sounds, actually has some validity. The theory is that most people who are overweight, in addition to eating too much, eat way too fast. When you eat fast you can easily miss the signal from your brain that your stomach is full. If you have time to kill between bites you have a chance to realize that you’re not actually hungry anymore.
Not too many of these ideas will really help you in your struggle to lose weight. Truth is, losing weight is only half the battle. What happens next is the important part. If you make healthy changes to your diet and get in the habit of exercise you’ll be able to sustain the weight loss and keep it from coming back forever.
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