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I need to lose 100 pounds, how do I find the commitment and motivation?
I know how to do it but I just haven’t found the will or commitment or motivation that is strong enough to stick with it or follow through. You’d think that looking at my fat body and feeling all the negative effects would do it but I like to eat and find it too hard or incovienent to do what is necessary. I am looking for some inspiration that can help just shy of actually having that heart attack!
First — you CAN do it. My wife is down 102 pounds, as of this morning. She’s got a bit more to lose, but breaking that magic 100-pound mark was a real milestone. So it is POSSIBLE, and you have to tell yourself every day that it is POSSIBLE for you to lose 100 pounds.
Second — you need to set yourself up to succeed. To begin with, it is most likely going to take you YEARS to do this — even if you lose 2 lb/week that’s almost a year, and you most likely won’t be able to keep up a 2 lb/week loss rate consistently. On the plus side, at the end of a year or two, the eating habits you’ve acquired will be more permanent. That’s why diets always fail — when you go on a diet, you are consciously adopting something out of the ordinary and when it’s over you go back to the ordinary and amazingly, your weight goes right back up. So set this up as the way you live now, not as some abnormal thing you’re doing on a temporary basis.
Third — Exercise is important, but you can’t lose 100 pounds by working out harder. When I finish my 30 minutes on the elliptical machine, it tells me I’ve burned 240 calories. That’s one freaking Snickers bar. There are 4086 calories in a pound of fat. This means that I’d have to work out for 8 and a half HOURS on the elliptical machine to burn a pound of fat. On the plus side, I wouldn’t have time to eat. 
But for all the many benefits of working out, the place you lose weight is at the table, not at the gym.
Fourth — Portion control is KING. My wife has to monitor her food intake and blood sugar because of diabetes (which she developed after years of being overweight), but in practice she can eat almost anything, as long as it’s in modest portions. And for us at least, it’s a LOT easier to exercise portion control at the stove than at the table. If I make up a giant bowl of spaghetti, for instance, it’s too easy to ladle some more on my plate if it’s sitting in front of me. But if I make a SMALL bowl of spaghetti and it’s gone after everyone has had one serving, there ISN’T any more for me to eat. And it’s a lot easier for me to do this when I’m cooking — to put in only so much, to make only moderate portions — than when I’m sitting at the table enjoying dinner.
Fifth — be aware of how you use food to de-stress. That’s the killer (almost literally) for us: when we’ve both been running around at work, pressed for a deadline or just tired out, we tell ourselves we don’t have the energy to do much in the kitchen. So we either go out for fast food (the WORST), or we fall back on the stuff we can cook without thinking — comfort food, and lots of it. So determine what and how much you CAN eat, and buy what you need to support that.
Sixth — It’s all about structuring your life around your goals. (For us, an ounce of structure is worth a pound of motivation.) This means that when you are feeling good and have energy, make plans to cover for yourself when you’re feeling low and need to de-stress. Make your menu plans when you’re feeling up, but plan for what to do when you’re down. Shop to those menu plans when you’re on task, but buy portions that you can cook when you don’t have the energy or focus. Then, when it finally comes time to execute on these plans, you won’t have to think, or decide, or judge in a moment of stressed-out weakness — it’s just what is there.
Seventh — it’s a marathon, not a sprint. If you monitor your weight daily, you will see that it fluctuates. You’re down a pound on Tuesday, then you’re up half on Wednesday, then your down two on Thursday, then you’re up one on Friday. This is a natural part of the process, and being up a pound does NOT mean that you’ve failed and you mnight as well eat a large pizza and a hot fudge sundae and a bag of doughnuts. What it means is that you’re up a pound. That’s IT. You have to live by the numbers, but you also have to make the numbers meaningless.
Eighth — you know what they always say about drinking lots of water? Well, it’s the truth. It turns out that most of the by-products of fat burning are excreted in the urine, NOT as solid waste. (Solid waste is mostly the leftovers of your food, plus the broken-down remains of used-up red blood cells.) Schedule regular water breaks into your day; the recommendation is 8 glasses (of 8 ounces each, for about two quarts of water) or approximately 2 liters of water a day. (I joke that the added benefit of drinking so much water is that it forces you to get more exercise while walking to and from the bathroom… but it’s only half a joke.)
I was thinking about making this a Top Ten list, but instead, let’s honor the Buddha and call it the Eightfold Path. And to borrow another teaching of the Buddha, this path is like a finger pointing to the moon — if you focus only on the finger, you miss the moon. Reaching your goal of being 100 pounds lighter is the moon for you; these steps are the finger pointing the way.
Guided Meditation – Increase Motivation And Confidence
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Summer reading
I read books on education the way non-cooks devour cookbooks or men surf Sports Illustrated. We’re not planning to do any of the inspirational things we read about, but we’re fascinated and informed by the hard work and energy that goes into it.
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