Not losing Fast Enough

I am frustrated and sad...

 

Do you know why ??? Do you ? really ?!!! I had a friend tell me she is quitting

Because she is not losing fast enough...

In her mind, she has lost  12 lbs in 3 months, and that is not FAST ENOUGH btw thats a POUND a week..

and would equal 52 lbs this year..

So she is going to a family member to get a weight loss wrap and she bought some green coffee bean pills , and she doesnt like to work out etc etc... 

Please keep in mind this is also a woman who could not commit to 30 minutes of exercise daily

she also is not tracking calories or intake - accurately.

 

Truth is - she is doomed to fail at this point, because she wants what we all want -

Quick results - minimum effort.

30 lbs in 30 days , etc etc , all the attention grabbing headlines in the magazine racks at the grocery store.. 

 

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 "Thats not how it works,thats not how any of this works" .. To quote the lady from the insurance commercial.

 

 

There is a $20 BILLION  DOLLAR industry out there , designed to

Bamboozle

Buffalo

Flim Flam

Scam

Sell you Snake Oil

-whatever you want to call it.

What they really really don't want, inspite of all they say, they do not want to lose you as a customer.

You are a potential REVENUE Stream-

 

Everytime a diet fails you and you try a new one , some guy is sitting in his office in a shady dark basementat the bottom of a 50 story multiplex office rubbing his grimy hands together coughing out ciggarette smoke  and saying , hmmm "What can we sell them today" dang we got all this ummm.. coffee bean extract that no one wants ... hmmm.. yeah lets do that ...

 Everytime I hear this from someone I feel like i am seeing another person get swallowed in by the Tar Pit  that is this industry and all the false claims and misleading information and silly food restrictive diets ..

 

Do not buy into it .

Simple .

Weight loss is HARD -

Doing nothing is EASY

 

 Remember when grandpa said nothing good is easy?

 Hard work and Perseverance.

We battle with our weight every day, we battle with our inner natural genetic code, it tells us we "need" this weight. because you know - famine- zombie apocolypse and all that. 

I know - I am right there with you in the trenches , Fighting my own battle of the bulge.

Yeah thats right , I am a Weight loss and Exercise coach who is (ominious music) FAT!

ive lost 50 lbs this past year, i still have more to go .  I have educated myself and am here to hold your hand as you navigate the same mine fields I navigate every single day.

Fitting in

Fitting in , So much of life is a struggle to fit in , from early school years and needing to find friends, so we are not alone, to middle and high school where we have to create an identity so that we have friends and people we fit in with
 Creating labels as we go so that somewhere we "fit in" Jocks, Brains, Hippies,Goths,Geeks

Looking for that elusive weight loss, or exercise pill so we can regain our health we look to "fit in" a new smaller size size 4-6 seems to be the most common goal I hear from most women- they just want to be a single digit size.
 For some of us that size may be one that we have never "really" fit in  as adults, and it seems like an impossible dream , there is so much hype and blather out in the public about what we need to do to lose 5 lb  this month , or 30lbs in 30 days on the cover of every other magazine in the checkout Aisle.
 Television shows that every few days seem to hype some new magic pill, ( yeah Dr Oz I'm looking at you...)
Here in the USA we are the FATTEST nation in the world ..
 lets let that  sink in ..

the FATTEST NATION in THE WORLD...

 we struggle with diet and exercise, and somethings occur to me

Based on my TV package
 I have 3 separate television channels devoted to food, Food Network the Cooking Channel and Travel Channel (which is about 70% food programming)
and ZERO devoted to exercise.

We are obsessed with models, movie and tv stars and looking thin , and being thin,yet we do nothing or little about it ,
 Sticking to or Quitting a diet, more people understand quitting than do sticking with an exercise and eating plan , food is abundant - it surrounds us every day,
 we have to consciously exercise resistance to the abundance around us.

Its much easier to stay thin in life if you have never been overweight..
let that lesson sink in for a while especially if you are a parent...

We will talk more soon.