Don Quixote
Considering my struggles and those of others to lose fat with varying results, I've come up with some of what I feel are the REAL reasons for these results.
We give in to old (bad) habits - We become very comfortable with our ways of doing things and living our lives. Old habits are so difficult to break. Besides we need to have results now. Even the thought of briefly stepping out of our comfort zone is uncomfortable.
There's no way that everyone can like every food that is featured in recipes for meals that will help reduce weight. Plus, there's always a possibility of us not having that featured food at home, forcing us to go to the store and buy it and ultimately deciding not to eat it again because it didn't taste good to us. What a hassle!
Finding time for exercising sounds too much like homework. And the exercises themselves aren't always motivating. We perform them for awhile and when results aren't forthcoming right away, we give up our efforts. Plus, we've learned from previous experience that a lot of those exercises and diets just don't work for us and only manage to disappoint. This gives us another reason for not trying. Equally discouraging is finding about a dozen books at the library promoting the best, most effective, superior method or system for losing fat. Just the thought of trying out all of those methods and systems is exhausting and futile, like Don Quixote fighting windmills.
In a perfect world, that perfect way would require very little effort on our part and practically guarantee us perfect results all of the time. Unfortunately, we have a variety of methods that may work for us as individuals with no guarantees. All of the methods and plans are presented as "one size fits all," which simply isn't true. We each have different body types and weight and fat loss issues. To make these ways work for us, we'd have to choose one and tweak it a bit or individualize it for ourselves in order to make it work. Already, that sounds like too much work and we go back to those bad old comfortable ways that got us where we are today.
Thoughts as "You'll never lose weight," "What makes you think you'll lose that tummy this time?" and other negative ideas abound in our heads. Those thoughts discourage us from the get-go and shortchange and/or totally ruin our motivation and efforts.
Those packages of cookies, chips, marshmallows and the like are just an arm's reach away to soothe and comfort us during stressful times. They taste much better and are more satisfying than raw carrot sticks or a banana.
If you're tired of putting up with fat and are looking for ways to overcome it, go to Darlene's blog, http://fatlossmoves.blogspot.com.
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