Do you feel like you’re always on a diet? Do you feel like if you could just find that right formula or the perfect pill, you’d be the weight you want to be? What if you had the right gym membership? What if you had the cash for the personal trainer to walk you through your daily routines? How about a few extra hours and the perfect nutritionist?
The truth is, we all feel that way. I’d love to have all of the above available at my finger tips. I’d love to weigh exactly the right amount – whatever that amount is – but there is something you need to take into account when you are thinking about weight loss of any kind and that is COMFORT.
Calling our mothers & fathers our right track.
Yes, that’s not the easiest sentence to say, but let’s think about it for a moment. Most of us can cite something about our parents that was a positive influence on us. We as parents, can be a positive influence on our children. So if we are going to provide COMFORT and receive COMFORT – the right track to be on is the one that provided them with their weight loss support.
What Do I Mean By This?
Let me give you an example and see if it explains my meaning more clearly. I’ve tried a variety of diets, all with varying levels of success. The largest problem I have with most diets is that sticking to anything for the rest of my life is hard. I’ve made adjustments here and there, but finding the one balanced system to eat just the right number of calories doesn’t seem to work.
Then it hit me – my mother has never watched what she ate. She ate what she felt like having that day whether it was a hamburger, a roast beef sandwich or some fresh fruit and vegetables. She let her body tell her what it hungered for and that’s what she ate. Sometimes she ate frequent small meals throughout the day, sometimes she only ate one meal.
So how did she manage to stay trim and not put on a lot of weight? It’s simple. She’s always walking. She doesn’t own a car and she doesn’t drive. She worked as a waitress for more than 30 years and she walks CONSTANTLY – she must walk fifty or sixty miles a week, if not more.
COMFORT
I take COMFORT in the fact that when I increase the amount of steps I take, I lose weight. It’s really that simple. When I walk 90 minutes a day, 6 days a week – averaging about 3 to 4 miles a day – I lose weight. Period.
So take some COMFORT – how did your mother and father do it?
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