Weight Loss is a Lifestyle Change
March 18, 2009 by Jay
Filed under Weight Loss Tips
In many of my articles I mentioned that weight loss is not about a fad diet that lasts couple of months; it is a lifestyle change. An article by Cassie Stanyon, published in “The Citizen” on March 14, 2009 confirms that.
The article is about a couple, each of them overweight that eventually succeeded to lose lots of pounds (husband lost 140 pounds and wife lost 100 pounds) when they realized that weight loss is NOT a diet, it is a lifelong commitment to healthy lifestyle.
Everybody should come to this realization on his or her own in order to implement changes successfully into life. However, reading this kind of articles will help realize it and hence accelerate the weight loss process.
For some reason people are more prone to try complicated things rather implementing simple lifestyle changes. The general mentality is “this can’t be that simple”. However, it is. While developing new habits will take some time and is not always easy due to lots of resistance, the changes by themselves are not complicated. Being persistent in the beginning is important.
Getting into habit of reading food labels, eating whole grains, drinking lots of water, eating vegetables and fruits might require some time but the end result is better health and an ability to attain and maintain the ideal weight.
