If dropping pounds were and easy thing to do, the weight loss industry would not be so huge. There is obviously a great demand by people to lose weight, and one can find dozens of books and different diet approaches to try. Celebrities who gained too much weight are engaged to lose pounds and encourage others to buy the program they are pushing so as to try to do the same thing.
This author is among those who needed to shed some pounds, and at my annual physical exam just the other day my doctor informed me that his records show that I have managed to drop 11 pounds since I saw him six months ago last August. I got serious about losing some weight about 4 months ago, and most if not all of my weight loss has occurred since then.
The first big step to losing weight is getting motivated to do so and just getting started. In my case I had two things happen that motivated me to finally get started. I had always put off going on any kind of a diet because I was afraid that I would eventually go back to my old ways and put any lost weight back on.
My first motivation came from looking at photographs of us swimming last summer. Photos don’t lie, and I looked very much overweight in those pictures. It seemed much worse than what I was used to looking at in the mirror each day. The second jolt came at a gathering of old classmates, and one person picked out the three people who had developed the largest guts. He assigned himself a well-earned first place, but to my dismay, I came in third.
Seeing and hearing these things was a little difficult for a person who has engaged in vigorous exercise five or six times per week for the past twenty five years. I was never more than a couple of pounds overweight until I started taking a beta blocker for blood pressure control about five years ago. A beta blocker can cause weight gain because your heart rate and metabolism are restricted by the medicine.
I’m not following a set diet plan, and I’m not counting calories. I just simply watch how much food is on my plate. If my portion is too much, I just put some of it to the side before starting to eat. I do not have second helpings, and I stay away from snacks, with one exception. Every day at about 4 pm I feel like I need something to eat, so I will have some fruit or maybe a low calorie snack of some kind. Except for that I am not hungry. I don’t think it pays to starve yourself, as I’m sure I would pig out later and lose all my progress. This is the slow and steady method, and it really has not been painful.
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