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AND, if we will get our butts off the couch once in awhile and move around a little bit we might find that not only will our emotions get better but we might just burn off a calorie or two!
I mean, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. I sure don’t need the Surgeon General to tell me that we Americans are killing ourselves with our forks. All we need to do is sit on any street corner in America or any mall and gape with wonderment at the mass of overweight human protoplasm shuffling along in their endless search for the next nacho plate or twinkie. It is amazing. The kids are no better. I now understand why some animals in the wild will eat their young to improve the species!
It doesn’t have to be that way. All it takes is the decision to make better choices. Of course any change is going to be met with resistance. (See the post on homeostasis) The key is not to try to do too much too soon. That’s why 80% of the New Years resolutions to lose weight have already been broken less than 2 months into the new year! A pound is 3,500 calories. So to lose a pound we need to eliminate 3,500 calories either by cutting back our intake or increase our burning off of calories. Small changes are the key. Just move around an extra 30 minutes a day and choose to knock off one or two lattes a week or some other little treat that does nothing for us and we can easily realize a pound or two loss each month. That’s about 15 pounds a year with no muss or no fuss. That’s not very much you say. Well, just look at the alternative. If you do nothing but continue with your same sedentary lifestyle and eating habits I can almost guarantee that one year from now you will be about 10-25 pounds heavier than you are now. The choice is yours and a no-brainer. 10-25 more or 15 less. Net loss of 25-40 pounds of ugly fat in one year! Next case!
Cross posted on Always Have A Toothpick.
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March 18th, 2008 at 8:37 am
1 MizFit wrote…
If you do nothing but continue with your same sedentary lifestyle and eating habits I can almost guarantee that one year from now you will be about 10-25 pounds heavier than you are now.
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wow.
if that doesnt get your readers moving and groovin and doing ANYTHING than I dont know what will.
M.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
2 SiteHoppers wrote…
I agree, you gotta really take one step at a time. Get that first bite and then the rest will come naturally. (Well, I should really take my own medicine and stop procrastinating…)
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
3 Lillian wrote…
Not true. I stopped exercising and watching what I ate and over the course of a year I gained 30 pounds. My weight didn’t get higher, actually it dropped a little although I hadn’t watched what I ate or how much I exercised until last September.
I lost about ten just by not eating ‘junk food’. I took stronger measures (exercising and tracking my food intake) and I’m losing weight. I should have the last 13 of my 30 pound weight gain off my summer.
Removing the junk from my diet and exercising is causing me to lose about a pound a week and I’m petite. It depends on the person. What is an extreme diet to you might be natural for me.