Are you ready? You’ve tried before, but it just hasn’t happened. Let’s admit it, losing weight is tough work! But I promise you, it’s worth it.
When I lived in Florida between June 2002 and May 2003 I lost about 100 pounds and I felt amazing. The weight loss did not come from any diet, nor did I exercise myself to death.
It was then that I first began my own plan for lifestyle change and over the next few years worked to shape the plan into something that could benefit anyone.
The wisdom and knowledge comes first from Almighty God, then from my own experiences and also from talking and consulting personally with some of the top weight loss doctors and surgeons in the world.
Don’t waste another dime on a diet or fad. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, then I have just what you need. The results are completely up to you.
As I write these blogs I am also striving to live out my own weight loss, life changing goals. I know it will take time and I know it will be hard work, very hard work. It won’t be easy but it WILL be worth it.
This is no magic cure and laziness has no place in this plan. Absolutely anyone can do this regardless of age, weight, height or anything else.
Let’s begin…
The first thing you need is to be willing to make a lifestyle change. Don’t try to lose weight because someone told you to. Desire to lose weight for yourself and NOT for anyone else.
It has to be a desire within your heart to better your health.
A lot of you won’t like this, but you are going to have to give up just about all of your fast food. Too many people make excuses and say that they are too busy but let’s just drop the pretense. Fast food is all about convenience and nothing else.
When we lived in the Canton area it was so easy to choose to be lazy and just go for fast food for dinner. Now we live in an area, where if we want anything besides Subway it’s about a 15 mile drive. That helps a lot!
McDonalds is the absolute worst fast food you can put in your body. Seriously! Do not eat McDeath and do NOT feed it to your children.
If you seriously feel the need to eat fast food, I recommend Subway and Wendy’s. But you have to be willing to watch what you get and also how much.
Last year in the nursing home, I learned that it is not always what we eat, but how much we eat.
Avoid red meat as much as you can. Focus your meat on chicken, turkey, fish, and in limited quantities pork.
Avoid white bread. When you shop for bread to have at home buy Brownberry Bread. Sure it’s a little more expensive but it’s so good and so good for you.
Two items that I have found especially useful in forming healthier eating habits and in losing weight are lots of protein and lots of fiber.
Learn to read labels and buy foods high in fiber. Greater than 2 grams per serving.
I know it’s a lot of information to take in but that’s the benefit of it being posted on my blog for free. You can come back anytime you like and review the recommendations.
Also if you have questions, ask, ask ask.
People who try to lose weight by starving themselves are ultimately doing more harm than good to their bodies. First of all doing this risks muscle and cell damage, NOT GOOD!
But also what happens when you starve yourself is your body will be less willing to burn fat and more willing to store carbs and sugars which promote weight gain faster than anything else.
When a person who tries starving themselves eats, the bodies internal central processor recognizes food, remembers that it was deprived and will hold on to more of what the person does eat. Not only will this cause digestive issues, but almost double the weight gain in the long run.
There are ZERO documented cases where a person used this method and lost weight for the long term that they did not regain.
I highly recommend that you purchase (and take daily) a QUALITY multi-vitamin. If you have health insurance, particularly a pharmacy benefit, ask your doctor to write you for a prescription vitamin. If not, avoid generics and buy a quality vitamin like Centrum or some of the various other name brand vitamins available over the counter.
Be accountable to someone, first God, but also to a close friend or family member. This is a journey which many of us are on and together we are stronger to meet the challenges before us than we are alone.
Please feel free to share your success and your struggles with me.
Time to give up the sweets. I know, Christmas is coming but again drop the pretense. Schedule a small sweet snack at some point in the day and stick to it. This gives you something to look forward to without over doing it.
Remember, just because someone puts food in front of you or because you have it in your house does not mean you have to eat non-stop.
Learn to say “no thank you” and learn to walk away from food. If you go out to eat avoid buffets. Ask for a “diet” or senior portion.
Smaller portions are better.
Sadly McDeath, I mean McDonalds spent years conditioning our society to super size everything and we need to work to change that thinking so that we all eat normal, healthy portions.
Don’t eat within 3 hours before bed and even that is pushing it. Don’t sit around and snack all day or all evening either.
If you feel you must have a snack, put a small portion in a small bowl and when it’s gone, that’s it.
Eating less is not only good for your health, it’s good for your finances.
I’ve been there, I am there, I know. But we CAN do this.
