Our Painful Weight Loss Cycle

Weight loss is an issue for millions in the world. It crosses all demographics and is pursued for a variety of reasons, appearance or vanity just a couple. However, for many of us, weight loss takes on a painful and dangerous dilema. Due to the excess weight we have accumulated, we NEED to lose weight to control various metabolic symptoms, i.e. Type II diabetes, high cholesterol , and heart disease.

Our dilema lies with the fact that if we could lose the weight, we would lose the weight: but we haven't been able to and now we NEED to or HAVE to. For many of us, (myself included) that created such pressure as to make failure guaranteed. The more we try to lose weight - (often in dramatic and large swings), the more difficult it gets. Often times we succeed at losing 50, 75, 100 pounds. We feel great, we get great feedback from our friends and family; but then, because we were so rigorous and disciplined in our diet and exercise now we feel we can let up a little. You know the feeling...we can "relax". And with that release of pressure on ourselves, our eating eventually goes right back to the large quantities we were eating before and we gain the weight back. MOST of the time, we gain more back than we lost, sending many of us in a downward spiral that feels like a free-fall.

Because of the pain that this cycle causes, the free-fall; gaining the lost weight back, gaining more weight, having to buy or wear our "fat" clothes again, feeling the guilt when we talk to the friends and family that had seen us so successful...frequently it takes many months to try again, maybe even years. Every time it happened to me, I asked myself, "How do I break this cycle?"

The hard truth? The Bottom line? We break it by changing our behaviors in small, easily tolerated steps. We lose the weight the SAME way we put it on...by eating just a little less each day, each week and each month. If we can accept that it took time to create the problem, and the solution deserves the same attention, we can eliminate that sickening pressure and insistence to lose 100 pounds of weight or more in 3 months.

Many people feel that surgery is the ONLY solution at this point. It is NOT. Because know this...even if you have the surgery, you will have to change the way you eat and move for the REST OF YOUR LIFE. Otherwise, you will find yourself in the exact same cycle of pain again.

There are many resources out there to help you learn to take tiny, easy steps towards living differently, and they don't cost thousands of dollars, and they don't require you to risk your life with surgery. You can end this painful weight loss cycle today. Right now. Don't spend another day feeling bad about your weight.