Neither my personal or my business discipline is showing much in the way of results.
It's a trick!
I haven't made any progress in six days on my diet, even though for the last three days I quit rounding off my calorie estimates and stuck strictly to known quantities. Meanwhile, even though I haven't gone off the rails on my budget, the store savings don't seem to be getting very far either, despite having a very good month in sales.
They're trying to lull me!
Well, I knew it wasn't going to be easy. I knew it was going to take time. A couple months for the diet, and probably a couple of quarters for the business.
It's a test!
I ramp up my motivation level before I start these sporadic episodes, which usually carries me through the first few roadblocks that get me to some success which motivates me to continue. I'm still feeling pretty firm about my plans, so I just have to keep on trudging ahead.
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You have to exercise, too, especially as you get older. Get your metabolism working right and you can forget about calorie counting -- which is so 1990, by the way.
Duncan, if weight loss is the goal, it will always be a strugle as there are a lot of factors affecting the number on the scale beyond just calories.Water intake/outgo, sodium consumption, metabolism, how much you sleep, etc, all have an impact on weight, and if you put too much stock in using weight numbers as goalposts, it's easy to become discouraged. Now if maintaining healthy lifestyle changes over the long run is the goal, then the weight loss will come along eventually, and you'll have established lifestyle habits for the long run that keep the weight off. It isn't flashy, or exciting and it takes a long time, but the results last longer too..
Both of those other guys are right. Weight loss is rarely steady; it's typically a two-steps-forward, one-step-back process. And being healthy is more important than hitting some arbitrary weight target. I go by Michael Pollan's simple prescription: Eat food (meaning real food, not a bunch of over-processed crap), not too much, mostly plants. Can't go wrong with that formula.
walk to work
bring food from home
get out of the shop during the day, go for a walk
at home don't eat after 4pm, biggest problem in the west is this eating late, best times to eat are 8am and noon
yes, changing the lifestyle, would be essential for dunc, .. but not likely to happen
It's not calories in, calories out, Duncan. Talk about magical thinking! There've been a lot of advances on the nutrition and fitness front, you should do some reading. Again, it's about eating healthy and moving around. So many Americans are fat because they have very little understanding of how their bodies work.
What I see is a huge industry who are all touting their own viewpoints, which are contradicted over time.
I read the 'old-school' scientists and doctors who indeed say -- calories are calories, no matter what kind of food it is. Who say, energy expenditure is indeed energy expenditure, no matter what kind of exercise it is.
All the rest is formula's that only those in the 'know' know about -- in other words, magical thinking.
Do I seem like someone who doesn't read about these things?
There have been recent studies that show:
Certain foods do not burn off more calories than others.
It doesn't matter what Time of day you eat, it only matters what you eat in any one 24 hour period.
That metabolism plays very little role in weight loss or gain.
And so on.
If you wish to continue to believe that there are special tricks to the whole process, then I think you're indulging in wishful thinking.
Calories in, calories out. It ain't fancy, but at the base of it all, it is the essential notion. I know that works.
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