Best Weight Loss
Is there really a "best" weight loss system? Is there one that is
the fastest? Is there one that is hella cheap and still super
effective? Since I have given up on "dieting," I can only recall the
many weight reduction attempts I mad and which of those I would have
considered the best weight loss methods. Then again, I wonder if
what is best is what works for the individual—and hence the reason
we have so many possibilities, so many variations on the same goal.
What I mean is this: since I have always been overweight, I have
spent a lifetime searching for the best weight loss plan for me. I
have done—starting in my pre-adolescent years—yogurt and granola,
skim milk and banana, cabbage soup, Weight Watchers (three times),
Jenny Craig, Dr. Atkins, The Zone, the Hilton Head, the Suzanne
Somers, and numerous other plans. I went with low fat, low-carb,
went with the body-type diet, and onto the grey sheet of the 12-step
program, Overeater’s Anonymous.
I then did a personal food plan and exercise program that
combined all of the individual actions that worked…from each of the
best weight loss plans I had used over the decades. I shopped at a
health food store, so I ate no white flour or white sugar (both of
which are chemically processed and create food cravings!). I ate
protein, vegetables, and a minimum of whole grain breads at each
meal. And I power walked 4.15 miles every day.
As for the exercise, yuck, I first tricked myself into getting
out there, walking one city block (one-tenth of a mile) and back the
first day. The next day, I did two city blocks. The next day after
that, three, and so on, until I was not only out there walking for
over an hour but waking up in the morning craving the movement, the
air, the head rush (or endorphin rush). I also listened to music
with a perfect, driving, motivating beat and with lyrics that kept
my mind occupied…as for me, exercise was boring because there was
nothing to think about, nothing for my brain to feed on when walking
around an oval track for instance, or doing repetitive, dull sit ups
or whatnot.
As they say in another twelve-step program, "Take what you need
and leave the rest." Study and try out what each diet promoter
announces is the BEST weight loss plan, but then use what works for
you from each one. Yes, it will take months, even years, but it is
worth it if you want the best weight loss results FOR YOU. In other
words, it works if you work it!
