....weight loss

...trying to get into shape, lose weight and get fit is not a physical thing for a lot of people ...it's a psychological one.... we all know what to do these days don't we? eat less, move around more, shed the pounds. so why for hundreds and hundreds of people is it not that easy? i know loads of people, myself included, who have tried all the diets, who claim they desperately want to lose weight (sometimes i wonder if we really do... or we simply would), who do lose weight for a short time, but, if i'm honest just keep getting heavier and heavier.

....the problem lies in part in the fact that when you start to restrict your diet and exercise more you lose a lot of weight initially but then the weight loss slows down. why is this? simple -it's probably because you take your eye off the ball because you are so happy at how you've done that you slip. to achieve what i need to achieve i need to change how i eat, not, interestingly, what i eat (except the alcohol maybe), portion size is more my issue. but the change needs to be permanent. for some reason i (and many others) put weight on easily (genetics??) so you have to make a change, maybe a smaller one than the dramatic diet, but make the change a permanent one....

...the big problem as i see it is that as your weight loss slows down you are devastated that you've only lost 1 pound this week when in the previous weeks, at the start of the diet/healthy eating kick, you lost 3 and 4 pounds a week. but you need to check out just how much 1 pound is! 1 pound is 450 grams and that is (nearly) all of the fat contained in this tub of butter above! all of that fat stripped off your body, off your stomach, or from around your heart or your kidneys. it's not just the fat around your stomach that's the problem is it? it's the fat around your organs.... and that 1 pound that you (and i) think is pathetic is this whole tub of butter... gone ...no longer locked up inside you ...now that's success!!

...this week i lost 2 of these off my body! how good is that! i'm heavier than i've ever been and it's not that big belly that's going to kill me it's going to be the fat i can't see around my vital organs

....oh! and now i've got a tattoo i'm not going to be the fat guy with a tattoo!! ;-)

stay focussed..... i simply can't fail this time ...

as gene kranz, lead flight director for Mission Control, announced to the ground crew in Houston as Apollo 13 approached the critical earth-to-moon decision loop "Failure is not an option,"

failure is not an option
failure is not an option
repeat with me....
failure is not an option!!
;-)