I posted this last year but I really needed the reminder again.
I dont know about you guys, but this article hit me right bewteen the eyes!
Here is a part of something I read and I wanted to pass it along to all of you. If it is speaking to you, you need take the advice. I do, it really hit the nail on the head for me. Beware, it is not candy coated advice.
" STOP trying to "cheat" the diet. You either WANT THIS, or you don't. Are you tired of being big and bulbous? Are you sick of clothes that don't fit, or that are shapeless Hefty bags? Well, ARE YOU? Then commit yourself to 2 weeks. 14 days. An HONEST, HEARTFELT commitment to YOURSELF to take care of you for YOU, and no one else. You can do it! And, no one else can make you want this, not through guilt, not through anger (although that CAN help sometimes!), not through encouragement (although that REALLY helps sometimes to get over "bumps in the road"). COMMIT to giving 100% effort for YOUR SAKE. If ONLY to make an honest attempt to see a project through to the end. Finish what you started, for no other reason than to "just do it." If you FOLLOW the SBD honestly and faithfully, you will learn to eat better. If you learn to eat better, your body will eventually HAVE to use up the fat reserves you're storing for the next Ice Age. It's plain physics. The key phrase here is HONESTLY.
NO, you can't substitute anything! SUFFER A LITTLE! Life is not as easy as we want it to be. EVERYTHING has its price. Your price for eating what you wanted, when you wanted, how much you wanted is that now you are a lumpy dumpling. The price to turn your life around and find the slim, healthy person under all those fat folds is that YOU have to make the decision to STOP playing games, and follow the instructions as written! Yes, you are allowed to "flex" a little, if you are SO weak willed that you just can't live without a diet soda, or a little milk in your coffee, or even coffee, for that matter. But, that weakness will be at your elbow forever.
If you are spending your time trying to make excuses for not doing this the best you can for the first two weeks, you will never, EVER be slim and healthy. You'll lose weight, and find it again, over and over and over. I know. I've played this game for 30 years now. I've gained and lost 3 entire people's worth of poundage, and here I am back at 200 lbs. again.
In the past, I only wanted to lose the weight. For fashion, for men, for every reason except to be healthy for ME.
I've now reached the age where I'm getting too old to abuse myself this way any longer. I have resigned myself to NOT being able to eat as I choose, because I have no common sense, and end up having to lose another 50-60 pounds every few years...
I WANT THIS! I want to be thin again, but NOT through starvation and obsessive exercising. I want to be able to eat without feeling like a concentration camp prisoner to my diet. First, I have to accept that my eating habits suck. Then I have to WORK HARD to drink enough water to get my poor kidneys through this readjustment, and eat as many vegetables as I can (a MINIMUM of 4 1/2 cups a day), because this is going to be hard on my body. If this means having to go "Cold Turkey" for 2 weeks, well it will be hard, but I WANT THIS!
Oh yes, I want all these ugly pounds to go away. BUT, I know it is going to take awhile. I also know that there is no "easy, gentle" way to do this. If losing weight was easy, I wouldn't be here, now would I???
This means MAKING yourself measure out and eat those vegetables. This means MAKING yourself drink 8 glasses of water (GLASSES, not CUPS, ie. about 100 oz. of water EVERY DAY!!!). This means NOT gorging on proteins because they are unlimited. You should keep the balance of 2 cups vegetables to every 4 oz. of meat protein, and Stop Eating when you feel "Kind of Full". Don't eat until you are fully sated. SUFFER A LITTLE, it won't kill you, but may help you. If you are not sure, write down how much you are eating and what for the two weeks. It will help show you where you need to direct your attention as regards eating habits.
Two Weeks. A SINCERE effort to complete 2 weeks. A honest effort to MODERATE yourself for 2 weeks. People perservere through some of the hardest situations, involving loss, deprivation, imprisonment and pain. Certainly you can survive for two weeks drinking a LOT of water, eating a LOT of vegetables, and RESISTING all the "bad" foods that made you a walking marshmallow. Stop worrying, questioning and scheming to somehow "slide by" here. No one cares if you succeed or fail if YOU don't care enough to do it. You just have to make the commitment and stick to it for 14 days...THEN, re-evaluate how bad it is.
You can do this, but YOU GOTTA WANT IT!"
Read this part again....
No one cares if you succeed or fail if YOU don't care enough to do it.
Thats the key right there! YOU have to care enough about this. Do you?
When I worked for the hockey team our motto was YOUGOTTAWANTIT.
I think thats going to be my weight loss mantra. I have to want it... and I DO.
I dont know about you guys, but this article hit me right bewteen the eyes!
Here is a part of something I read and I wanted to pass it along to all of you. If it is speaking to you, you need take the advice. I do, it really hit the nail on the head for me. Beware, it is not candy coated advice.
" STOP trying to "cheat" the diet. You either WANT THIS, or you don't. Are you tired of being big and bulbous? Are you sick of clothes that don't fit, or that are shapeless Hefty bags? Well, ARE YOU? Then commit yourself to 2 weeks. 14 days. An HONEST, HEARTFELT commitment to YOURSELF to take care of you for YOU, and no one else. You can do it! And, no one else can make you want this, not through guilt, not through anger (although that CAN help sometimes!), not through encouragement (although that REALLY helps sometimes to get over "bumps in the road"). COMMIT to giving 100% effort for YOUR SAKE. If ONLY to make an honest attempt to see a project through to the end. Finish what you started, for no other reason than to "just do it." If you FOLLOW the SBD honestly and faithfully, you will learn to eat better. If you learn to eat better, your body will eventually HAVE to use up the fat reserves you're storing for the next Ice Age. It's plain physics. The key phrase here is HONESTLY.
NO, you can't substitute anything! SUFFER A LITTLE! Life is not as easy as we want it to be. EVERYTHING has its price. Your price for eating what you wanted, when you wanted, how much you wanted is that now you are a lumpy dumpling. The price to turn your life around and find the slim, healthy person under all those fat folds is that YOU have to make the decision to STOP playing games, and follow the instructions as written! Yes, you are allowed to "flex" a little, if you are SO weak willed that you just can't live without a diet soda, or a little milk in your coffee, or even coffee, for that matter. But, that weakness will be at your elbow forever.
If you are spending your time trying to make excuses for not doing this the best you can for the first two weeks, you will never, EVER be slim and healthy. You'll lose weight, and find it again, over and over and over. I know. I've played this game for 30 years now. I've gained and lost 3 entire people's worth of poundage, and here I am back at 200 lbs. again.
In the past, I only wanted to lose the weight. For fashion, for men, for every reason except to be healthy for ME.
I've now reached the age where I'm getting too old to abuse myself this way any longer. I have resigned myself to NOT being able to eat as I choose, because I have no common sense, and end up having to lose another 50-60 pounds every few years...
I WANT THIS! I want to be thin again, but NOT through starvation and obsessive exercising. I want to be able to eat without feeling like a concentration camp prisoner to my diet. First, I have to accept that my eating habits suck. Then I have to WORK HARD to drink enough water to get my poor kidneys through this readjustment, and eat as many vegetables as I can (a MINIMUM of 4 1/2 cups a day), because this is going to be hard on my body. If this means having to go "Cold Turkey" for 2 weeks, well it will be hard, but I WANT THIS!
Oh yes, I want all these ugly pounds to go away. BUT, I know it is going to take awhile. I also know that there is no "easy, gentle" way to do this. If losing weight was easy, I wouldn't be here, now would I???
This means MAKING yourself measure out and eat those vegetables. This means MAKING yourself drink 8 glasses of water (GLASSES, not CUPS, ie. about 100 oz. of water EVERY DAY!!!). This means NOT gorging on proteins because they are unlimited. You should keep the balance of 2 cups vegetables to every 4 oz. of meat protein, and Stop Eating when you feel "Kind of Full". Don't eat until you are fully sated. SUFFER A LITTLE, it won't kill you, but may help you. If you are not sure, write down how much you are eating and what for the two weeks. It will help show you where you need to direct your attention as regards eating habits.
Two Weeks. A SINCERE effort to complete 2 weeks. A honest effort to MODERATE yourself for 2 weeks. People perservere through some of the hardest situations, involving loss, deprivation, imprisonment and pain. Certainly you can survive for two weeks drinking a LOT of water, eating a LOT of vegetables, and RESISTING all the "bad" foods that made you a walking marshmallow. Stop worrying, questioning and scheming to somehow "slide by" here. No one cares if you succeed or fail if YOU don't care enough to do it. You just have to make the commitment and stick to it for 14 days...THEN, re-evaluate how bad it is.
You can do this, but YOU GOTTA WANT IT!"
Read this part again....
No one cares if you succeed or fail if YOU don't care enough to do it.
Thats the key right there! YOU have to care enough about this. Do you?
When I worked for the hockey team our motto was YOUGOTTAWANTIT.
I think thats going to be my weight loss mantra. I have to want it... and I DO.
