The Initial Step

Losing weight for most people is painful and dreadful process. After all, you have to restrict yourself to what you normally eat or you wouldn't have gained weight in the first place. I am personally always going through the initial stage of this kind of thinking as I lose determination and then get recommitted to the idea of eating healthy and exercising more.

I recently joined Weight Watchers. It's an interesting thing to be a man at Weight Watchers. I feel a little out of place by gender but very comforted that people around me have the same struggle I do to lose weight. My leader is a very genuine person. After you're first meeting, she sits down with you and talks to you about the program. I was most interesting in hearing her story of how she lost the weight and then kept it off. Keeping it off is the struggle for me as I usually gain so quickly. She said that she had joined Weight Watchers and would lose the weight and then would quit the program and gain the weight back again. It wasn't until she finally decided that this could no longer be considered a diet, you had to make it a lifestyle.

By making it a lifestyle, she committed herself to healthy eating beyond a temporary amount of time. That idea I have heard before but it never had any impact on me until she had said it being a giant factor in her success today. That idea of your brain being the key factor to losing weight is motivating. It is possible to control ideas but it does take some work with opposition that has been built up over a lifetime. So, with that in mind, this what the entire blogging experience is going to be about:

How do you make eating healthy and exercising a part of your lifestyle and not just a diet?