So, Your Diet Failed Again?

Weight loss can be such an emotional event in one's life. Some days go so well and then other days are a complete mess. It is so easy to watch reality TV and see contestants on The Biggest Loser jump on the scale and drop 15 pounds in one week. Then you see them do it again week after week after week. This type of personal expectation can make the average person feel as if they are a failure when compared to the weekly results portrayed on your T.V. As you watch The Biggest Loser you must realize that in the one hour show there are up to almost forty two hours of exercise shoved into one episode. Most people that you know can not afford to devote that amount of time to sweating week after week and that is not an excuse, that is the reality.

As the average weight loss individual knows, in real life, you have your good days and your bad days. This internal rating system is often "tagged" to how much or how little is eaten. The issue that creeps into everyone's diet plan is an event called life. More often than not life can over take and cause setbacks in your weight loss goal. The setbacks can be attending a wedding (especially if it is your own wedding) or a death in the family. Your job may take you out of town on an unexpected trip or your work day may turn into an emotional roller coaster that sets you out on a mission to seek comfort in food.

All too often when the events in one's life become unbearable people tend to retreat into what some people may call an excuse. To a spectator who has never attempted to lose weight they may look at you as being lazy or simply as someone who just does not try hard enough. As one powers up their inner self for the journey to be thin they see expectations set by "diet plans" or T.V. shows or some wonderful exercise product. After seeing before and after photographs you get motivated and decide to lose those 75 pounds and this time it will work! Then you wake up three days later and you can't comprehend why your diet has not worked. Then you lose your resolve and hopelessness begins to settle in and you just keep on going through life with the nagging in your mind that you are still over weight.

Let me be the first to tell you that is does not have to be that way. Let me inform you that too many individuals set their weight loss goals unrealistically. This faulty goal may be what is setting you up to fail from the start. I want you to re-evaluate your goal and separate it into two parts. By dividing your one goal into two parts you will help ensure your success.

Goal: Lose Weight

Part One: How Much Weight Do You Want To Lose And How Long Will It Take?

The first thing you need to decide is how much weight do you want to lose. If you say to yourself "I want to lose 100 pounds" that is great, but a vital part of that statement is how long do you think it will take? I want you to take your goal and divide it by two. That answer would be a realistic, and sustainable weight loss when the number is attached to the time frame of pounds per week. If you want to lose 100 pounds then it should take you about one year. This is not only achievable but it will be sustainable, after you lose the weight. Set a realistic goal and that realism will help from life getting in the way of your ability to lose weight.

Part Two: What Food Will I Eat To Lose The Weight?

This is the difficult part of the equation. If you start a plan that only included eating seeds from the forest you more than likely will not be able to live the rest of your life eating seeds. This may sound like an extreme example but the point is that you must follow a plan that will allow you to survive long after you lose the desired weight. If you decide to end carbohydrate consumption you more than likely will one day break that diet and then break it again and then yet again and again. Then somewhere along the way, your diet is over and you ended up with more weight than you had before you started the diet.

So not only do you need to set a goal as to how much weight you want to lose, you need to plan on the food that you eat after you lose the weight. If you combine this approach with a realistic time frame that wedding will not be a problem. Two pounds a week eating food you will be able to survive on for years will be a lot better than some fad diet that will not last. Two pound weight loss every week is better than a one half pound weight gain per month.

By Keith Quackenbush

http://www.IChooseThin.com

Keith Quackenbush is a graduate of St. John's University and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer. He and his wife (Sue) have been seeking knowledge on weightloss and have realized there is no magic pill to lose weight. http://www.IChooseThin.com is the destination achieved from the inadequate weight loss websites that really did not help others lose weight. Let the weightloss journey begin.

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