Your weight is one number that you don't want to be high, just like your age or blood pressure! Weight is easily put on and seems impossible to take off. We all would like a "magic pill" that would make the weight fall off and make us a size 2 instantly! I once found a diet pill that actually worked. I lost 35 pounds without exercising at all. However, over time it's affects no longer worked with my body. I tried to go off and then go back on, and that didn't work either.
Currently I work at a health store and encounter people looking for these magic pills almost every time I work. They are willing to pay major money for these pills. I have come to the conclusion, after trying several weight loss/fat burner pills, that the majority of them only give you energy. They are filled with high amounts of caffeine, some natural caffeine found in Gurana, but caffeine nevertheless. Some of them also raise your body temperature so it feels like you are sweating from working out, when in reality you are doing nothing. You could be sitting in a chair with your feet up! I, like everyone else, am looking for the right diet pill that works with my body to make the pounds fall off. I will continue to try different ones until I find it!
The real cure to weight loss, as most of us already know, is exercise. Exercise seems like a dirty word, a word similar to "snow" in Iowa, "poop", or "work"! If you look around though, it is the people who are running or working out who are the ones in shape and at an "ideal" weight. An "ideal" weight varies from one opinion to another. For instance, I was talking to my son about weight loss, he's 13, and I asked him who he thought was a mom who was at an average weight. He answered the name of a lady who is probably a size "0" and runs everyday. I was shocked to find out this is who my son views as being an average size! I must be a huge cow in his mind!
I was a size 5 when I got married. After moving to another state and being unemployed for six months I became a size 16 very quickly! I was homesick and my best friend in this new state was a couple of guys named "Ben and Jerry"! We lived in a duplex that happened to have a 7/11 across the street! How convenient! Another best friend from there was the Big Gulp. After gaining almost 50 pounds from stress, I then found myself pregnant. Yeah, more weight to gain, eating for 2! I had pre-eclampsia with this pregnancy and swelled up like a big whale! I gained another 30 pounds! Three years later I had my 2nd child having never lost the "baby weight" from the first one!
Over the years I tried losing weight. I joined Weight Watchers. I once lost about 50 pounds and was down to a size 8 almost. However, I went back to my stress eating and gained it all back quickly! Damn did I look good for a while though! A short while! I am a person who loses weight for a special occasion, such as a wedding or a class reunion, and gains it all back as soon as it's over!
I have tried all kinds of ways to lose weight. After gaining my freshman 15 in college, I took those pills that were supposed to expand in your stomach and make you feel full. I once was hypnotized for weight loss. It lasted about a month. I listened to subliminal tapes. I even had a BB put in my ear to "rub when I felt hungry"! I also did acupuncture and have tried every diet pill on the market!
My conclusion after all these trials, is that the only way to lose weight is to exercise and control what and how much you put into your mouth. Eating. We all have to do it to survive. I see a lot of people buying those so-called low calorie frozen dinners, such as Weight Watcher's Smart Ones. I recently saw a tv show about these dinners and it showed that they are mislabeled. They found a lot of them had a lot more calories then what the label said. We all know that eating fruit and veggies will make us thin. So, why can't I do that? When I have a salad, I have to put tons of full-calorie dressing on it to make it taste good to me. I never was a fruit or veggie eater. I don't remember my mom making me eat them. I guess I never grew an appetite for liking for them. When I do eat veggies, I have to add a ton of butter and salt, or if they are fresh put dip on them. It's not that I don't like fruit and veggies. Should my mom have forced me to eat these, would I like them more today? Perhaps!
People go to leaps and bounds to lose weight. They have tummy tucks and liposuction, and some have their jaws wired shut. Then there are the poor girls, and some guys, who become bulimic or anorexic, or both, trying to fit someone else's idea of thin. It's really sad when you think of how many have died doing this. There is actually a website that tells you how to be an anorexic or bulimic! I've read it! How alarming! My daughter is very thin and an athlete. When she is training for track or another sport she loses at least 10 pounds. People are always asking me and my husband if she eats. Yes, she eats all the time. Some people were just born lucky with a high metabolism. I hope for her sake she keeps it for life! She is already getting my hips! Poor girl! When I was in 6th grade I started getting my "womanly curves". One boy I remember was so mean that he called me "Thunder Thighs"! I wasn't fat by any means and was the tallest girl in my 6th grade class! I just got everything before anyone else did!
I believe another key factor to losing weight and keeping it off is positive thinking. You need will power and a positive mind set. Like everything worthwhile in life, you have to "want" it bad enough to work for it. Blood, sweat and tears! You can't do it for others. It has to be your choice. You are the one who has to go to the gym and workout. At one point in my life I was actually addicted to working out! I would walk on a treadmill three times a day. I thought if I missed one time the weight would come back. It did!
Being healthy is about lifestyle. I feel a lot of it has to do with stress levels. If you work all the time, are suffering financially, or have family issues, how can you think positive? You need to figure out how to de-stress and go from there. I've never tried to meditate, but I think I'd really like it and it would help de-stress. Free your mind and free your body from all the burdens weighing you down! Detox your life!
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