How To Be A Weight Loss Success Story
Wanna know how to lose weight?
Well, lemme tell you a story…
Susie Suburbanite wanted to lose weight and realized that most of her weight gain was from ordering lunch at work and then grabbing something to eat for dinner on the way home.1Maybe she read The Health Effects of Eating Out and Sodium and Weight Gain, both of which detail how restaurant food can pack on the pounds? Hmmmmm, we’ll never know…
Susie Suburbanite started to make her lunch at home every morning before work and made a rule to only eat out on the weekends.
Susie Suburbanite found herself craving restaurant food less and less and making more and more meals at home on the weekends after a few months went by.
Once eating out was no longer an issue, Susie Suburbanite then went on to tackling her morning coffee problem by substituting the piles of sugar and rivers of cream she used with Stevia and almond milk before weaning herself completely off additives and just drinking her coffee black.
Susie Suburbanite lost 75 lbs in a year and a half by repeating the process of making tiny changes to her lifestyle and then starting work on changing something else once that change became a habit.
After making the initial decision to lose weight, Susie Suburbanite followed this course of action rather than give up everything she loves upon getting out of bed the next morning, which is what most people do and why most of them have weight loss fail stories.
Be like Susie Suburbanite!
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Well, maybe not exactly like Susie Suburbanite who lives in a Norman Rockwell whitopia devoid of diversity but somehow says she doesn’t see color, which, when you think about it, is literally true considering that her neighborhood is racially segregated so, of course, there’s no black or brown people around for her to see!
What happened to Susie Suburbanite is a weight loss success story that you can write for yourself too, so long as you understand the moral of the story.
And the moral of the story is…?
*sigh*
The moral is that change is a process, not an event.
Behavior is a multifaceted thing that involves physical, mental, and emotional complexes that can’t be undone at the snap of a finger. There are steps that have to be taken, with each one serving as preparation for the next. The “go big or go home” approach of wholesale change attempts to fast forward this foundation building, which is necessary for the undoing of behavior that’s often taken many years to develop, as well as the ingraining of new habits to replace the old.
And that’s why most people fail, for example, when they immediately choose to eliminate a food or entire food group from their diet, as the all-encompassing change is stressful and they have to alter too much of their normal day-to-day life to accommodate it.
That isn’t the case with small changes, which are more manageable because their impact isn’t as noticeable, thus providing time for the body and psyche to adjust and habit formation to occur.
So yeah, do that!
Glossary: diet
