My Weight Journal

In my last post I told you I would tell about the thing that made my weight loss successful the last time. I needed to get this out today, so I’ll put that in my next post.

Weight Loss Success

In my opinion, success in weight loss is mostly based on attitude, commitment, and desire to achieve the outcome.

Attitude: If you are angry, sad, or depressed, you will have difficulty keeping your energy and behaviors organized on the weight loss tasks. Keep your attitude light. If you step on the scale and discover your weight has gone up, it is an opportunity to learn something.

Commitment: Sticking to your chosen weight loss regimen is a significant key to losing the weight.

Desire to Achieve the Outcome: This comes in two flavors for most of us. Some of us are in a weight loss program because we are afraid of something or we want to avoid something. Maybe it is fear of ridicule, of illness, or even of death. If this is what is motivating you, nurture that and keep that fire burning for yourself. Remember that thing you are afraid of if it keeps you motivated.

Another flavor of this desire to achieve the outcome, is a need to obtain something. Make sure you have clearly establishd the goals for yourself and that they are measurable, so you will know when you have achieved it.

Build Yourself a Dream: In both of these flavors of how to achieve your outcome, you need to grow for yourself a dream of what it is going to be like to achieve your weight loss outcomes. You need to see yourself as more healthy, more comfortable, and living longer and happier. I do not know what that looks like for you.

I’m going to be 64 in a couple of months. I’m still more than 40 pounds overweight. I see myself thiner. I see myself wearing cloths that look better on me. I see myself with fewer pains in my joints and I see myself moving easier. I see myself more comfortable in social situations. I see myself not being self-conscious about bulges in my belly and at my hips.

I don’t know what your dream is, but from my experience, it is much easier to succeed in weight loss when I have clearly defined my dream for myself.

Something Has To Change: If you are going to lose weight, you are going to have to do something different from what you have been doing. Some of you have difficulty with change, and I appreciate this. So, let me help you understand what is happening.

If you are obese, you have only a little more time before you get really sick and pass on to another stage. I hope that you understand that leaving this earth in that way will be a major change for you and for your whole family. Finding another way of living, so that you live much longer, is a minor inconvenience. Deciding to lose weight, and finding a way to do that, and following that way will give you many more years in which you will live happily without any other changes needed.

Weight Loss Program Reviews

Death that is attributed to obesity is estimated to be about 325,000 people per year in the USA. Let’s put this in perspective. Annual deaths from auto accidents in the USA is about 43,000 people. The number of auto accident deaths is only 13% of the annual number of deaths from being obese. If you are obese you are 7.5 times more likely to die from your obesity than from an auto accident.

Being overweight leads to heart disease, diabetes, and mobility problems. All of these conditions lead to a difficult style of life and uncomfortable passing of time. Being overweight is harmful for a person’s health and complicates a person’s life.

I’m in a weight loss program now. I have chosen an approach I’m familiar with and I have used before to successfully lose weight. I lost more than 70 pounds in 2006, and I intentionally stopped so my skin would catch up with my body.

But before I started my current weight loss program, I took the time to explore other popular diets in the current marketplace. Although I’m using my own program, I wanted to give you my review of those programs which I liked.

I specifically decided to explore those diets which were a plan or program which I would purchase online, read, study, and understand, and then follow the plan and lose weight. I thought that those programs which sold DVDs or pills or equipment or membership were asking for a lot more money, and I thought those physical things they were selling (more than the diet concept and plan) had little impact on (or had little value for) me losing weight.

The following are programs which I examined and I feel confident will be programs with which people will lose weight.

Fat Loss 4 Idiots: Don’t be concerned about the name of this program. The program is quite clear and I love the research on which this is based. I am very confident that those who follow this plan will find it interesting and filled with variety. As I write this, there is a 50% discount for this program and I don’t know how long that will last.

Burn The Fat: This is a program by a fitness trainer, Tom Venuto. You just have to go to his site to look at his photos. This program is a weight loss and a fitness program. This program has several bonus books and a manual.

The Low Glycemic Diet: This program focuses on the glycemic index of foods and guides you to make choices of foods which help you lose weight. Many bonus ebooks. This looks like an easy to understand and easy to follow plan.

The Negative Calorie Diet™ identifies over 100 negative calorie foods that safely force your body to work harder during digestion thus, turning your body into a fat burning machine! These negative calorie foods are easily found in most grocery stores. This seems to be an easy program for those who want to take it easy.

Weight Loss Hypnosis with Steve G. Jones: “The Most Powerful Weight Loss Hypnosis Program Available Without A Prescription!” I know and trust Steve Jones work. And , if you are thinking about this program, I strongly urge you to get the platinum package. It costs a little more, but this version of the self-hypnosis technology is much more advanced than the gold package.

I think that all of these program work. They all have a 100% guarantee. If you want to lose weight, choose one of these programs, and start now. The only way you will know if one of these programs works for you is to try it now.

You are the only one who can decide to do this.

This is the moment you can decide if you want health and longer life.

It is up to you, to do this now.