The Runners Diet
This is about dieting. I'm not advocating taking up running just to lose weight, although if you are fit enough you could. Rather I am suggesting adapting your favourite sport or activity to help you lose weight
We all participate in one kind of exercise or other, whether its walking, swimming, whatever. None of us , who are fortunate enough to have good health that is, enjoy just sitting around doing nothing. This is especially true if you want to lose weight. I like walking to lose weight, because it doesn't make me out of breath and it isn't too hard on my legs and knees. Besides, we all have to walk to some extent each and every day, just to satisfy our daily needs. Better still, I prefer running to lose weight.Road running, that is.
So I thought why not use the road running, which I enjoy so much, to my own advantage by making it the central part of my very own dieting programme. And so the Runners Diet was born.
The second thing I did was to change my eating habits. I realised I was eating too much and I felt bloated too many times for my own comfort, so I decided to eat less. Eating less to me means eating smaller portions of food on smaller plates.
Over eating is not good for you and can be sort of compulsive. You can find yourself eating toward a level of fullness which you know is not good for you, but subconsciously you choose to do nothing about it. So you carry on over eating. And you do this every day. It's a form of comfort eating , if you will, which you can break quite simply by choosing to eat less. That's all you need to do. I had been living with the habit, though it's just as easy to break the habit when you decide to do something about it. But you have to go through that mental process for yourself. No one else can do it for you. There is often a bit of pain to experience , while you change your behaviour, but you just go through it and its finished.
Set yourself a target weight. By that I mean a realistic and safe target weight. One that you are comfortable aiming for and that you know to you can achieve.
Decide for yourself what that target is to be. It might be just a few pounds or a few kilograms. Just be realistic and safe in deciding how much weight you want to lose. While it is true that nobody knows your body better than you, the achievement of even a modest weight loss, of say a few pounds, which you know you can achieve, can give your confidence level a massive boost when that target is reached. So it is a worthwhile exercise.
"One small step at a time." That's the key. Decide to lose only a few pounds at a time, and watch your confidence grow as you achieve the targets you have set yourself. Small but significant targets reached is great for your self esteem. That's the whole point about not setting yourself an unrealistic target which could mean failure and the miserable feelings which go with having achieved nothing. Nobody wants that.
Lastly, have a purpose in losing weight. Ask yourself why you want to lose weight. My purpose was that I wanted to have a better self image of how I looked in the company of other people. I think we all have that bit of vanity in us which says I want other people to notice what a wonderful body I have when you go to the swimming pool, sauna or whatever.
Philip is a part time writer who writes about ways of losing weight and other topical issues.
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