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Here's a point that I'm jumping in here to emphasize. People who lose weight generally forget how they gained it in the first place. Somehow, they think it happened overnight. Like magic. The truth is, it happened while they were going about, living. Follow me here...It is our old lifestyle - our diet and our exercise (or lack thereof) that made us fat. What we chose to eat. How much we chose to eat. Where we chose to eat. And whether or not we exercised at all.
If you expect to make temporary changes to that lifestyle in order to shed weight, you will never be able to keep it off. Ever.
This is not about temporary changes in what we eat.
This is not about temporary changes in a work-out regimen.
If you want to shed the weight and KEEP IT OFF FOREVER then you will have to change your lifestyle (diet AND exercise) FOREVER.
So what if your best friend can eat an entire plate of cannoli and never gain a pound while just THINKING about pizza puts 5 pounds on your thighs. Babe, life ain't fair. Get over it.
Make a healthy diet "NORMAL" for you.
Make exercise "NORMAL" for you.
Make a permanent change in your lifestyle and you will keep off your weight. I promise. Worked for me.
I just had to quote all of this because it is so freakin' true. I've been thinking about how I'm going to keep this weight off, once I finish taking it off.
I'm 20 years old (yes, I know a mere babe in arms!), and thinking about doing something for the
rest of my life(!) can be really overwhelming. It's taken a big, hard mental adjustment for me to realize that I will
never go back to my old lifestyle. This will
always be something I will need to spend time on. It's hard to retrain your brain!
I'm getting used to that thought. It's still really overwhelming and frustrating sometimes. Brings out the whiny 6 year old in me.
Not fair!! Not fair! I want to eat crap food just like everyone else!! (NOT
)