DO YOU THINK of YOURSELF as a....LOSER?

I doubt it.

You've spent your lifetime striving for success...in your career, in your personal relationships, in your bank account.

Do you ever intentionally hope to fail?

Do you go out of your way to make more work for yourself?

No?

I didn't think so.

Is it reasonable then to wrap yourself around a diet that "works" by causing you to "lose"?

Don't you think that it's about time to figure out what you truly want.......and how to get it?

Setting out to lose 10 or 20 or even 100 pounds, though a worthy task, is still "losing"; and every part of you will fight that process from start to finish.

Your body interprets your "working" diet as another attempt to starve it, and your metabolism will respond by slowing down drastically for what it thinks is your own protection. 

Your mind will continually focus on all that it is being denied and will work overtime to let you know exactly how deprived it is feeling.

Don't believe it?

To explain: What is the most effective way of getting a promotion at work? Do you concentrate on "losing" your current job...or do you direct your thoughts and efforts toward "gaining" that new position?

Look at it another way. My eight year old grandson just returned to school. Do you want to try to explain to him that he "lost" the first grade, or would it be more productive to congratulate him for having "reached" the second.

Positive or negative?: Your friend just "lost" his or her job.

Good or bad?: We got "lost" in the woods.

Yea or Boo?: Uncle Charlie just "lost" a fortune in the stock market.

OK or not OK?: The economy continues "losing" ground.

True or False?: When you "lose" your health, you've "lost"  it all.

It's hard to come up with a single instance where "losing" is a positive.

Why then do millions of us continue searching for a diet that "works" and will cause us to "lose" when none of us really want to "work... or lose"?

It could be advertising, conditioning, or tradition. It could be Richard Simmons' fault, for all I know. (Just remember his "no pain--no gain mantra)

One thing we can all be certain of, however, is that we will be much more successful with a program that teaches us to gently make a few life style changes while moving in a positive direction toward the accomplishment of a worthwhile and realistic weight goal.

How's that for a mission statement?: "Gently make a few lifestyle changes while moving in a positive direction toward the accomplishment of a worthwhile and realistic weight goal".

But, does such a program exist? There's a link at the bottom of this page that will outline the program we've chosen. Stay tuned for "the rest of the story".

Gayle and I have set our weight-change goal at 125 pounds between us (coincidentally equal to our combined ages). I have twice as much improving to do as she does. You do the math.

My doctor just reminded me that I am dangerously poised within the "morbidly obese" category, and have been for quite some time.

Pictures and monthly updates will be posted. "BEFORE" pictures are now viewable: OUR PERSONAL CHALLENGE

Here's another link to all the info you'll need to start gently making a few life style changes while moving in a positive direction toward the accomplishment of a worthwhile and realistic weight goal:

http://www.StripsThatFat.com

and our new blog:

http://www.BeSoThin.com/blog

  It's Time to Re-think this whole diet routine.