Chubby Mommy

This list of “21 Sure Fire Ways to Lose Weight” certainly has some excellent tips in it. Among my favorites:

- Start somewhere; what is important is start doing something about losing weight, here and now.

- Challenge yourself that you can lose weight. Keep reminding yourself that you have to lose weight and entertain a positive feeling about it.

- Do not be disheartened if you do not lose as much weight as some others following the same plan. Unfavorable comparisons might ultimately make you stop the whole program altogether. Be happy about whatever little weight you have lost so far.

- Remember you have an urge for food in times of emotional disturbance, frustration, boredom and so on. Food at such times is not a physical need. Avoid it then.

Losing weight is about mind-set as much as effort. Sure, you can exercise until sweat drenches your clothes, but if you fool yourself that you’ve “earned” a piece of cake after such exertion, you might as well have stayed planted on the sofa. Exercise is not about earning indulgences, at least not when you’ve still got weight to lose. Exercise, at that point, is about redeeming the indulgences you’ve already granted yourself: that slew of burgers, fries and shakes that packed on the pounds in the first place.

It’s also about doing something good for yourself today that will benefit you tomorrow, even if the needle on the scale does not budge a bit.