I like to eat.
Letís face it, most of us do.
It is an ingrained part of our socialization. We gather
together to eat for many occasions. We go out for dinner on a date, we eat
at celebrations and at times of loss. As humans, we can find almost any
reason, or no reason at all to eat.
What gets us in trouble is when the occasional bout of
over-eating turns into a pattern of over-eating. When the occasional
eating of the ěwrongî things turns into a habit, that is when the trouble
develops.
Those things, coupled with the lack of activity that our
society is notorious for, lead us into being overweight and obese.
We sometimes begin to see food or social gatherings as
the enemy.
Neither one is the enemy.
The last time I was on a ědiet,î I gained seven pounds.
I did everything according to the diet that I was supposed to do. I ate
the correct portions and I recorded everything I ate. I put a lot of time
and effort into it and I was starving. After two weeks and only a weight
gain, I was so discouraged I vowed I would not go on another diet of any
kind. I felt that I was destined to stay obese and there was just nothing
I could do about it. Every bit of food I saw somehow made its way onto my
hips whether I ate it or not. I was on the ěsee foodî diet for sure. I saw
food and it became a part of me.
Then I did some reading. I did some research and the
biggest thing I did for myself was that I quit smoking. I also saw a
chance to do something to better my health in other ways and so began this
contest.
I have now lost five pounds total in one month. That may
not seem like much to most people, but I feel great about it. I certainly
canít tell that I have lost anything yet. My pants arenít fitting looser
or anything like that, but in my mind, that five pounds is the first
foothill in the mountain and I climbed it.
Here is a simple equation for figuring out your total
percentage of weight lost.
Take your weight now and put two zeros behind it. For
example, my weight now is 271 so my number would be 27100. Divide that
number by your original weight. My original weight was 276 so I will
divide 27100 by 276 which equals 98.1884. Then you take this number and
subtract it from 100. So 100 minus 98.1884 equals 1.8116. This is the
percentage of total body weight I have lost.
I hope you all did something good for yourselves this
past week.
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