Twice the Man over at Second Time Around linked to an interesting article on MSN titled “Why Weight-Loss Efforts Fail.” While the main focus of the article regards things that cause a person to fail, there are some good weight-loss strategies listed, too:
But the ones deemed most effective were the simplest — reducing calories and increasing exercise. Other rules that worked included: decreasing sugar intake; increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, vitamins and water; watching less TV; and eating at home more often.
If you’ve tried unsuccessfully to diet many times, Dansinger suggests getting a “coach.” A coach can be your doctor, another health professional, or a friend who’ll hold you accountable to your goals, he said. He also suggests recording your intake of calories every day, limiting calories, and exercising seven hours a week, including cardiovascular and weight workouts.
Quite a few of those suggestions are also on my action plan for losing weight. And the ones that aren’t should be. For example, the exercise. I still haven’t figured out how to get myself back up and going with that. And we even own a treadmill! I think I need to start going back to the rec center for exercise. I dunno how I’ll fit that into my schedule now, but being there created a situation where I could not slack off, where I could not procrastinate, where I had to exercise. And, more importantly, where I enjoyed exercising.
I think I just need to start going once the kids turn in for the night. Load up my iPod Nano with a bunch of podcast and then head out. Force myself to juggle the rest of my schedule…
3 replies on “Why Weight-Loss Efforts Fail”
Sounds like the rec center is the place you need to be, good luck Biffster
You keep fighting the good fight. At some point you are bound to win
Maybe, you’d better use something like Elliptical trainers?
That helps me to keep fit.