Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Is it Time to Start Dieting?

By Ricardo d Argence

A lot of people have tried many diets and all have failed. Most weight-loss plans cause you to lose pounds at the beginning, but often the weight starts to return, many times exceeding your original weight. Weight gain often feels like the world is playing a joke on you and your body.

Even on the most popular diets you will find this temporary loss and return with a vengeance effect. This is because most diets are designed to give you a good weight loss in the first few weeks. Mostly because the majority of these diets cause you to lose body fluids and not fat, which is actually dangerous. Then after your body adjusts to the new diet, or you stop the diet program, your fluids return and add to the fat you were trying to lose. It is at this point you will probably find the scales now weigh you heavier than when you started the diet! The only winner in the end is the company selling you their expensive dieting products.

With so many negatives, you may now ask yourself, Why should I start dieting?. Well, the good news is, once you have found a sensible diet that works, all you need is to stay on it and keep your motivation and keep a vision on your goals. Even on good diets, we still find people losing their own personal motivation and getting off track. Therefore, it is important to have a vision right now, even before you begin your diet to have a focus of where you want to be.

Now decide why you want to begin a diet plan. Really rake yourself over the coals. Write down why you want and need to lose weight. You need to find reasons to really push your emotions. There are some items that are really commonly given in terms of motivation, here are some.

Self-confidence related. Seat belts don't fit. I don't feel comfortable going to the beach. I hate my own image in the mirror. I am always the heaviest person. My weight makes me feel depressed. I lose weight I want to look the best I can for my wedding day. I hate my own image in the mirror.

Personal. I sweat more than I should. I have swollen feet. I can't play with the kids because I get too exhausted. Always having to buy new clothes of a bigger size. I get sick more easily than most people. I find it difficult to get dressed.

Relationships. My partner is always hinting for me to lose weight. My partner just broke up with me. My relationship is suffering because of my lack of sex drive.

You should have a good number of reasons why you need to lose weight at this point. List all that apply from the choices above and include a minimum of 3 more original reasons. Complete it immediately. We must take immediate action to be successful. If you aren't serious about taking action now then it is likley that you are wasting your time.

Accept that change has started now. Everything that's in store for your life, including your potential physique, begins today. Because you make the decisions in your life, how healthy will you decide to be tomorrow? - 15252

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