Do You Want to Lose Weight?

If you want to lose weight, but think that it is a hopeless battle, then you are wrong. Maybe you are just going about it in the wrong way. I myself have tried many times to lose the extra weight that I gained after having my third child. I thought it was a hopeless battle that I would lose forever. Ready to give up and just learn to deal with the size that I had become, I decided to try one more time.

This time I received some of the things that I had been lacking in the past. These things were very important to me achieving my goal. Before this time, I thought that all I needed was to start exercising and I would lose weight, I tried this and failed. I would give up after only a month of not losing any weight. I tried eating less, but this was always difficult, I really enjoyed eating good food, and junk food was just simply an addiction. I could literally eat an entire bag of chips (large) by myself, as a snack while watching a movie. Once again I failed, miserably, the food just simply seemed to be calling my name.

Then at the start of 2008, on an offer from my husband, I decided to make one last attempt at weight loss, with the help of pills. What type of pills is not important, I bought them over the internet, and would not recommend them to anyone, as I feel they did not help me in any way. But, waiting for the pills to show up in the mail, I got serious, knowing this was the last try, I was going to give up and live with being overweight. So when the pills came I had come up with a plan, reading many articles, and researching losing weight online, and reading all I could of the success stories. Knowing there were other people out there in the same situation I was made me feel better. Information is always a wonderful thing, in any form. An article or a book, or a website, can help you to come up with your plan to lose weight, many of these are very useful. With knowledge on my side and a new scale on the way, I started taking my pills, and since they said that I should exercise as well as taking them, I did. This time I pushes myself, I would exercise until I was sore and sweaty, and then I would exercise just a little more. This seemed to be working for me. I started to see the pounds dropping off, nothing drastic but it was coming off. I was proud of this. I continued working out, almost every night, pushing myself as far as I could, or as hard as I could. Maybe I would have given up anyway, but my husband joined in and my kids joined in and told me how much better I was looking. This made me feel more confident, and with more confidence, I tried harder.

I also quit eating so much food. For the first few weeks this was the hardest part, I wanted to eat more, but I knew I shouldn't. I forced myself to not go back for seconds, to quit eating when I knew that I was full. I didn't need to go back for more food just because it was good and it was there. I am not telling you that any of this was easy for me, it wasn't even close to easy. But it did get easier. After a few months I don't feel like going for second very often, and now instead of having a whole bag of chips as a snack, I put a handful or two in a small bowl. I feel better about myself now, and about the way I eat. My whole family has slowly started eating a little healthier. Less junk food is bought while we are shopping, and more fruit is. The support is great, and the fact that I look decent, in my own eyes in shorts is very wonderful. I enjoy being able to go places without feeling embarrassed about the way I look, or the way my family feals about the way I look.

By the way, I only took the weight loss pills for the first month. I have been losing weight for four months, and I lost most of it percentage wise per month, in the last three. I continue to exercise, and this will probably be something that I will need to do for the rest of my life to keep the weight off. The exercise is not so much of a chore anymore, it is a part of my daily life, and I feel guilty on the nights that I make myself do nothing.

So if you are planning to lose weight, firstly research, read books, websites blogs, whatever you can find. Figure out what has worked for other people, and that should help in figuring out what will work for you. Secondly you should find some support, family or friends are great or you can even join a group online, as long as you have someone telling you that you are doing well. Just don't forget that once in a while you will stop losing weight, and sometimes it will take a few weeks of work before it starts dropping off again. So when I say support, I mean someone who will tell you that you are doing well in the effort department, and in the weight department. You also need to force yourself to eat healthier, don't quit eating all the foods you love, just eat less of them. I still enjoy ice cream, cake, chips, all the stuff I used to eat, but now I don't eat them as often. This makes them taste better. Good luck in all your weight loss endeavors, may they work for you.

Ginette Malloy, a stay at home mom, trying to make a living on-line. If you would like some help with these areas please click here: http://malgin.bezoogle.com/pp/weight-loss/ , or if you cannot click the link please copy and paste it.