TJKROWIORZ's CalorieKing blog
Monday, Nov 10 2008 - Hmmm
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Sometimes I feel as if I am not yet ready to take on the challenge of weight loss. I know that if I don't it will eventually kill me. I know the health benefits. I know how to do it. I know I CAN do it. I just don't want to. Take the last six weeks for example. I visited with the nutritionist. I started going to the gym more often. I ate right, for the most part. And then BAM! I quit. I kept exercising, but I snack and snack and snack and snack. Even as I put it in my mouth, I know it should not be there. And I don't care. I don't know what else to do. I am at the point that I want to lose weight, I am making small changes (and I mean small) but I just don't want to put the work into it. How do you get that kind of motivation???
I am going to keep a journal again. I have to! That's the only thing that seems to really work. It's just so much work at first and I get lazy. I admit it I get lazy. And I don't care. And something happens so that I justify that I just can't do it. I feel sick, I'm too tired, there's a movie I want to see, whatever...somebody needs to invent motivation in pill form. I would SO be all over that!
I am going to keep a journal again. I have to! That's the only thing that seems to really work. It's just so much work at first and I get lazy. I admit it I get lazy. And I don't care. And something happens so that I justify that I just can't do it. I feel sick, I'm too tired, there's a movie I want to see, whatever...somebody needs to invent motivation in pill form. I would SO be all over that!
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a decade ago
I hear you there. Someone on CK recommended the book The Beck Diet Solution to me. It is a 6 week plan to get you to "think like a thin person". It goes day by day. They recommend two weeks of exercises before even trying to diet to learn the necessary skills. The first thing they have you do is make a detailed list of all the reasons you want to lose weight. The second thing they have you do is to put it everywhere and read it lots. I have tried that before and it hasn't worked real well for me. This time it is working. I think the trick is to decide how important this is to you and why and plant those ideas so deep in your mind, they come up automatically for you many times every day. It really helps to keep it all in perspective. All the studies show that the most successful long term weight loss programs all contain recording your in take pretty much for life. I keep kicking at that, but I think I am finally realizing that is what it is going to take and if I really want the weight loss, I will just have to factor that in as part of my life from here on out.
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