Be Aware Of Your ReasonsYou have decided that you want to lose weight and improve your health. What is
first step? Start by asking yourself what your reason(s)is for wanting to make this change.
This may sound trivial, but if you do not have a conscience and powerful reason for wanting to lose weight, you will find plenty of reasons not to.
I'm assuming that, like me, a lot of you have tried and failed at some previous attempt to lose weight in
past. For me,
last time was about 2 1/2 years ago. I had lost about 50 pounds, which I had killed myself to do, and had kept it off for about 6 months. Two later, I gained back
50 pounds plus another 8 pounds.
I had plenty of excuses. My wife and I bought our first house, my second son was born, I took a part-time job in
evening, ect... I kept finding excuses not to work out and my diet soon followed and went down
tubes.
After working so hard why did I let this happen?
I believe now that it came down to
fact that my reason for wanting to stay lean and healthy had changed. When I first began, I kept looking at pictures of myself at nineteen and I wanted to look like that again. There was nothing I could do about
thinning hair, but I could change my body. But somewhere along
way, looking like I did twelve years ago was no longer important.