Is It Wait Loss or Weight Loss?

This the season to go on diets. Pledging to diet for the new year is as common as breaking the resolution. By February 1, 2007, a remarkable 90% of these New Year diets will have gone be the wayside. Half of the 10% that survive will be gone be March 1 and come the spring the same people will all try again. The reasons for downfall are too numerous to document. There are tips that can help you lose weight by not actually being on a diet, as we know it. I will give you a few.

Don’t play the waiting game.

My friend Bob has a tremendous weight problem. The funny thing is he will stand there and wax poetically about his problem being he himself. One of his most famous lines (and he has a ton of them) is “Do you know what the real problems is?” Usually before you can even take a breathe to answer he’ll go on, “I’ll tell you the real problem.” He continues on with his version of the real problem of whatever it is. Bob is uncontrollably candid even about himself. When addressing the problem of dieting he will tell his problem is he is always waiting either to begin the diet or for a reason not to begin. Robustly he goes on, “it is because we people are stupid. What the hell are we waiting for? There is not one single good reason is the world to justify waiting and every reason not to wait. Still, I wait, you wait, everybody waits even though we can start whatever we are waiting for now.” Another one of Bob’s problems is once he starts he never seems to stop. You get the idea. His point is undeniable there is no reason for the wait except to put something off whether it be a diet or whatever.

A downfall of the waiting game.

Since we are not yet on that diet, we use that knowledge to eat more of what we should not. It becomes the reason to eat up on the foods we are going to miss. It becomes the why of why we don’t put up a hand and say I’ve had enough. The outcome is we have anti-trained for dieting. When we begin, it is much harder to achieve our goal to lose weight. Our minds are locked onto the foods we are going to miss. Not to mention we probably added a few pounds from the time we made the decision to diet and the deadline we gave ourselves to begin. When we fail in the first days of the diet, we can blame it on “wait loss.”

How to lose weight before you diet.

I know that sounds strange, but think of the logic. When you begin a weight workout program, you do not begin by trying to bench press 400 pounds. You work your way slowly up to it. You should use the same kind of training to dieting. Start before you begin by doing little things first.

• Begin the process of eating healthier foods.
• Increase your water intake slowly
• Go for walks after meals
• Cut down on all snacks between meals
• Learn to stretch first thing in the morning

What you are doing is preparing yourself to diet. Add to this a visit to the doctor a week after you have started. Discuss possible vitamin or hormone imbalances you may have. It is possible foods that are healthy for most are not for you.

Do not aim for your final goal.

Chances are your goal weight is a large drop from your present weight. Aim to eliminate the first pound then the next and the next. Make you target dates per pound. You will accomplish more with less stress and anxiety. Do not aim for your final goal point to it. You walk a path to your destination step by step, weight loss in no different.

The power is within you.

Go slow, be careful and take pride in anything you accomplish along the way. You know what motivates you, so surround yourself in your motivation triggers. Very few sports teams go undefeated and achieved championships. They have losses along the way. If they gave up because of those losses, they would have never become champions. You have what it takes to make the process “Wait loss or Weight Loss.”