3. Frustration. What happens when we get frustrated with our lives, work, family and going ons’ around us? Again we turn to food as a form of comfort to help us through these times.

4. Fear. We live in an uncertain world. Crime, work pressures, family pressures, all combining to make us look for a source of comfort, and that tends to be food again.

So, what must we do to break these habits that we have so easily formed? Well, firstly we need to stop looking at this as a problem someone else needs to find a solution to. Like it or not, this is your problem and you need to take ownership of it. Take a deep breath, look in mirror and accept that this is your issue and accept that only you can truly find reasons why you are overweight. Accept this, and you are truly on your way to finding answer to your weight problem, and then you can start down road to finding a solution that will work for you permanently.

Can you now start to see why this issue should not be pigeon-holed into some nice medical term? Giving ownership of issue to someone/something else will only end up keeping you from totally coming to terms with yourself. Imagine how fantastic this will make you feel inside. Once you take ownership of problem, you then have immediate control over it rather than it controlling you, and you can begin to find meaningful ways to address it. As humans, we all have this ability make decisions. Let it be you that makes decisions for you. Don’t allow circumstances or anyone else to have that control.

Be one that decides your future, you will love yourself for it.

4. Medical necessity: What is cost to your health medically if you are unfit and overweight? The statistics are mounting up concerning diseases and health issues that are now prevalent in our society due to epidemic of an over-weight and obese society. Do you really want to die earlier than is necessary, or become a burden to your family? Just monetary costs alone can be crippling to a lot of households, and many could use that money for other commitments in life. Can you afford it?

As you can see, once we have clearly defined purposes for wanting to lose weight, we can now use these reasons as a major part of our motivation to seeing it through. You must now take all this motivation you have gathered and start to develop a real Can Do attitude. By “Can Do”, I mean you must totally believe that you will be able to achieve your goal, and live that goal for rest of your life. Without this total belief in yourself, your task will become so much harder and you may find that you fall off rails and revert back to old habits that you are used to.

So, have you got right stuff to see this through?

Only you can honestly answer this question, and only after you have gone through previous steps will you start to discover if you are on a weight program for right motivating reasons, or whether it is just a whim that is destined for failure.