Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.
Are you overweight? Would you like to lose weight? What have you tried so far?
There are, when all is said and done, only three ways to lose weight. Only one of them actually works.
1. You can lose weight by following the instruction in a diet book. All diet books have some pretty good instructions in them based on many years of research and experience. At the end of each diet book (or in its promotional campaign) you will find a whole bunch of testimonials. Dozens of folks will tell you how wonderful the instructions the book contains are, how obvious the results, and so forth. The vast majority of such books recommend diets and exercise programs. The problem is that even if you do follow the instructions and manage to lose weight, youll always be in danger of gaining it all back. Youll deviate from the diet once, twice; or youll miss a week of exercises; or youll be so tired of torturing yourself, youll just give up.
2. You can lose weight by taking a diet pill. Those are easy to find, easy to get, and fairly cheap. It will take away your appetite for a while. The legend on the package will tell you there will be few, if any, side effects. Eventually, though, youll want to get off the pill. Loss of appetite can be very annoying. The very few side effects can be very annoying, too.
Im not even going to mention surgery, liposuction, nor anything else drastic of that nature. Thats not even a way to lose weight: its a way to mutilate your body (your most precious material possession youll ever have) for cosmetic purposes. You shouldnt do to yourself what you wouldnt do to your cashmere sweater or leather shoes. Really. (There are exceptions, of course; and yet, most of them are medical in nature; were talking about plain old weight management, not medical problems).
3. You can also change the way you think about your extra pounds. That, in my opinion, is the only method that really works. Overeating is not merely a physical problem; it is, at least in part, a spiritual problem. Where spiritual problems are concerned, cause and effect are oftentimes mixed up. All you have to do, really, is sort out your problems and set your priorities straight. Its far less difficult than you think. Stay tuned.
There are, when all is said and done, only three ways to lose weight. Only one of them actually works.
1. You can lose weight by following the instruction in a diet book. All diet books have some pretty good instructions in them based on many years of research and experience. At the end of each diet book (or in its promotional campaign) you will find a whole bunch of testimonials. Dozens of folks will tell you how wonderful the instructions the book contains are, how obvious the results, and so forth. The vast majority of such books recommend diets and exercise programs. The problem is that even if you do follow the instructions and manage to lose weight, youll always be in danger of gaining it all back. Youll deviate from the diet once, twice; or youll miss a week of exercises; or youll be so tired of torturing yourself, youll just give up.
2. You can lose weight by taking a diet pill. Those are easy to find, easy to get, and fairly cheap. It will take away your appetite for a while. The legend on the package will tell you there will be few, if any, side effects. Eventually, though, youll want to get off the pill. Loss of appetite can be very annoying. The very few side effects can be very annoying, too.
Im not even going to mention surgery, liposuction, nor anything else drastic of that nature. Thats not even a way to lose weight: its a way to mutilate your body (your most precious material possession youll ever have) for cosmetic purposes. You shouldnt do to yourself what you wouldnt do to your cashmere sweater or leather shoes. Really. (There are exceptions, of course; and yet, most of them are medical in nature; were talking about plain old weight management, not medical problems).
3. You can also change the way you think about your extra pounds. That, in my opinion, is the only method that really works. Overeating is not merely a physical problem; it is, at least in part, a spiritual problem. Where spiritual problems are concerned, cause and effect are oftentimes mixed up. All you have to do, really, is sort out your problems and set your priorities straight. Its far less difficult than you think. Stay tuned.
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Discussion topics are usually short, to the point subjects - I wouldnt know where to start addressing all this....
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Like I said. Stay tuned.
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
