Getting Started....again

pax520

At this stage of the game I feel like a professional amateur dieter; I've tried numerous trends and fads, some with 'false success' because the weight came right back with a vengeance.
I have determined "diets" do not work. For long term, stable and healthy success start with your mind.

Make up your mind that you are willing to make the right choices, remember why you are making these choices; research and read before you grocery shop; read every label; saying 'no' to the bad stuff is saying YES to you. Everything is a sacrifice, the choices you make in what you eat or don't eat; either sacrifice good health for fleeting, shallow pleasure, or remove negative killers to your good health.

Certain foods such as 'high fructose corn syrup' is guaranteed to add weight, and it is in a wide variety of foods from condiments, sauces, fruit products to bread products, even in the buns served at McDonald's!!

I've gone through the weight loss plan by the YMCA. Their focus is reduce fat, first and foremost. Well, it is way more important to decrease SUGAR than fat. Plant based sweetener such as Stevia and increasing your protein intake is not the magic answer, but those two items, if you are faithful, will build a solid foundation.

Foundation because the way we eat, what we eat is a life style, your life choice for as long as you want to be healthy. I believe in 'never say never' so that treat once a week or so is again, 'your choice'; for me my mind kicks in and lays the 'choice' out for me, "If all the negative ingredients, and wasted calories is what your really want, if that is worth the sacrifice, then go for it."
One last thought: what are you willing to sacrifice?