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Three Ways To Lose Weight

Posted on April 5, 2008 - Filed Under Health and Fitness

Are you overweight? Would you like to lose weight? What have you tried so far?

There are, when all is said and done, only three ways to lose weight. Only one of them actually works.

1. You can lose weight by following the instruction in a diet book. All diet books have some pretty good instructions in them based on many years of research and experience. At the end of each diet book (or in its promotional campaign) you will find a whole bunch of testimonials. Dozens of folks will tell you how wonderful the instructions the book contains are, how obvious the results, and so forth. The vast majority of such books recommend diets and exercise programs. The problem is that even if you do follow the instructions and manage to lose weight, you’ll always be in danger of gaining it all back. You’ll deviate from the diet - once, twice; or you’ll miss a week of exercises; or you’ll be so tired of torturing yourself, you’ll just give up.

2. You can lose weight by taking a diet pill. Those are easy to find, easy to get, and fairly cheap. It will take away your appetite for a while. The legend on the package will tell you there will be few, if any, side effects. Eventually, though, you’ll want to get off the pill. Loss of appetite can be very annoying. The very few side effects can be very annoying, too.

I’m not even going to mention surgery, liposuction, nor anything else drastic of that nature. That’s not even a way to lose weight: it’s a way to mutilate your body (your most precious material possession you’ll ever have) for cosmetic purposes. You shouldn’t do to yourself what you wouldn’t do to your cashmere sweater or leather shoes. Really. (There are exceptions, of course; and yet, most of them are medical in nature; we’re talking about plain old weight management, not medical problems).

3. You can also change the way you think about your extra pounds. That, in my opinion, is the only method that really works. Overeating is not merely a physical problem; it is, at least in part, a spiritual problem. Where spiritual problems are concerned, cause and effect are oftentimes mixed up. All you have to do, really, is sort out your problems and set your priorities straight. It’s far less difficult than you think.

Ricardo is the author of A Fat Girl’s Ultimate Guide to Thinness and Happiness

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