Need to lose weight, get in shape? Here are my best tips
I saw a news brief and photo in our local newspaper yesterday that I simply haven't been able to get out of my mind. It was about a guy in Mexico who's hoping to lose enough weight to be able to walk his fiancee down the aisle at their wedding. Currently, the man weighs something over 700 pounds and can't stand up. But he's DOWN from a weight of something over 1,200 pounds a couple of years ago!!
The real question here really isn't, "How did he lose all that weight?" The REAL question is, "Who in the world helped him get that enormously fat??" Think about it: If he has been so huge he couldn't stand up, someone else -- family, friends, both -- had to continue bringing him food and watching him eat his way rapidly toward the grave.
So, I think I should tell you a few things in the course of offering you some "weight loss" tips:
1. I am currently very overweight myself, chiefly due to poor eating habits and too little exercise.
2. I have tried, long ago, using diet pills, Phentermine-type prescription drugs (though NOT Phentermine itself) as well as over-the-counter diet pills. The prescription pills made me feel so "peppy" they scared me and I quit them. The OTC pills seemed to be a complete waste of time.
3. I have successfully lost a lot of weight in the past and kept it off for two or three years, meaning I have had success when using the "sure-thing" suggestion I am going to give you now.
Ready for the big revelation on how to lose weight and get in shape?? Here it is:
Eat less food and exercise regularly.
Wow, you're thinking, that was a major let down.
And that's exactly why so many of US are overweight and out of shape. We hope for the "magic bullet" or secret formula that'll work quickly and easily to make us healthy, happy, wealthy, and wise.
Alas, if life worked that way it would be wonderful, wouldn't it? But life, whether we're talking about losing weight and being healthy or making tons of wonderful money, just works one day at a time, generally, so we must live it that way.
Starting today, starting right now, make better food choices (come on, you and I both know we really know what's a good food choice -- think high-fiber, low-fat, low-to-no sugar, moderate protein, balanced carbs, etc.) and get up and move around more.
Then do that every day. Enjoy your new, healthier lifestyle. I won't even charge you for it!
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