Losing Weight

Dear My Perspective,

I NEED to lose weight. I am morbidly overweight. I am sick of the teasing, sick of the stares, sick of being too tired and out of shape. I bought a gym pass but i found that after one or two workouts, i couldn't stand it anymore. When it came to dieting, i found that it was just too complex. I want to, need to, lose weight, but its so hard that it makes me eat more!! What can I do?

Signed
Big

Dear Big,

When losing weight you are aiming to workout and eat right. By eating right, you want to limit your portions and learn portion control, you want to eat the right foods and leave the fatty unhealthy food more as a treat. We all know that we can enjoy our loves, its just a matter of how much of it you have. With exercising, you simply want to get in the habit of walking or jogging or simply burning off the calories and losing or maintaining your weight. You want to keep the laziness out of you as much as possible. But often losing weight can be very hard, the more weight you have, the more likely you are set in your bad habits.

But there are 2 secrets to weight loss that diet companies do not want to tell you. They are not simple secrets, but they are helpful and vital secrets.

Secret 1: Consistency. One of the main reasons, many people stop exercising is because they do not stay consistent in their workouts. Being consistent means, if you work out twice a week, you maintain working out twice a week until you are subconsciously working out twice a week every week. Working out whenever you want to, is what makes it harder to lose weight, putting yourself on a strict "I must go to the gym NOW" kind of schedule is helpful. You also want to be consistent about how much you workout and how long you workout and what you use to workout with. The concept of being consistent is that, by always doing the same thing, you eventually do it habitually. When it becomes a habit, you can then take on a little bit more (maybe go from 2 days to 3 days for example).

Secret 2: Taking Everything a Step at a Time. One of the biggest reasons dieting fails is because people take on too much too soon. If you are out of shape and are working out at the gym, trying a complete overhaul of the food you eat, at the same time, is likely to increase your chances of quitting. You want to take it all a step at a time. Its encouraged to start dieting first, because whats the point of working out, when you are still eating your usual way? Start off your dieting by slowly changing your foods. As suggested in Secret 1, you want to be consistent. Try your best not to fall back. Taking everything one at a time helps you from overloading yourself with too much stress from trying to lose weight.

Losing weight is not easy. Its even harder to do when you do not have a support system. Sometimes you have to give yourself ultimatums and goals to make up for lack of support. Do not let yourself waiver under the pressure and lack of support. Do what you know is in the best interest of yourself.