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The truth of the matter is, the amount of weight you lose is directly determined by the amount of effort you put in.
If you are the type of person who really doesn’t eat very much but still tends to keep weight on, eating small regular meals will definitely help kick start your metabolism and get you on the road to burning extra fat. Exercise will help considerably.
If you are a glutton however (like me), there is no-one else to blame, you are totally in charge of your own weight loss destiny.
Sometimes it is too easy to sit back and blame everything but ourselves: bad genetics, lack of time to exercise, can’t afford a gym membership or ________________________________ (insert excuse here) etc.
This attitude is entirely defeatist and will jeopardise your weight loss efforts from the start. No-one ever got anywhere by sitting back and saying “I can’t.”
Just get up, get out there and start to do something about it today.
Don’t believe the hype that tells you that you are the weight you are because of some predetermined genetic code. Lying around blaming your parents for your problems is for teenagers. People have beaten far greater odds than losing a bit of weight.
It makes me laugh so hard when I see ads proclaiming weight gain is not your fault. What, you mean me eating that KFC 3 times a week was not my fault? Come on. Give me more credit than that.
There are people (probably just like you or I) who just look at food and they gain weight. And then of course there are the people who no matter what they do, no matter how many times a week they have KFC, no matter how little exercise they get, they never gain a kilo in their lives.
I know. It’s not fair. It’s annoying that we have to work this hard for it. Trust me; I hate them as much as you do.
What we need to face though, is if all we do is sit back on the couch with chips and fizzy to drown our sorrows, instead of making the effort to be the best we can possibly be, then we are doomed from the start to carry this lumpy, unsightly flesh around with us for the rest of our lives.
It takes time and persistence to achieve our goals, but the rewards far outweigh the effort in the long run. Those people who are genetically gifted, they eat terribly and do themselves damage in other ways. You can’t get away with eating refined, simple carbohydrates and fat your whole life and expect to get away with it. They don’t understand what it is like to really have to work hard to look good.
They simply do not appreciate it.
Imagine for example you win a brand new car in a raffle. It’s pretty nice and you’re happy to have won it. You get in it for the first time. That would feel pretty good wouldn’t it?
Now imagine working really hard to save for your new car, doing extra hours and coming home exhausted. You scrimp and save and go without so you can put enough in the bank every week. You watch your friends go out every weekend while you stay in with DVD’s.
After months and months of hard work you can at last afford your new car. You finally get into the drivers seat and caress the steering wheel of your new baby.
How much different does this situation feel?
How about standing on the edge of the lake when you arrive for your long awaited holiday? You hear the wind in the trees and know you deserve this because you have worked so hard for it. Or what about the day you receive your new computer, or your pamper package, or anything you’ve been looking forward to because it is not just handed to you every day for free.
I would rather work hard for something than just have it handed to me on a plate. I appreciate this body I worked hard for every day, unlike all those people who didn’t have to.
Believing you can, knowing you can be the best you can be is a great place to start. As important as a healthy eating plan and exercise is, if you don't believe you can do it, you are doomed to failure from the outset.
Move on to Part Ten: Weight Loss Goal Setting & Positive Affirmations
