Why Can’t We Lose Weight? Part 2

Hey folks, Darrin your Starting Over Coach, back to talk about weight loss challenges.

Our demand for quick results has left us in a frantic state where any quick fix will do.  We go from weight loss pills, to smoothie diets, to low fat low carb diets that only allow us to eat 1000 calories a day, to liposuction, to gastric bypass, or whatever else promises we don’t have to work for it.

We read the latest women’s fitness magazines that rave about the hottest new meal plans, or feature some size 0 celebrity who promises that “you can have a body like mine if you do this and eat that”.  We get right on it!  We eat the meals and try our best to do the workout, and two weeks later we are on to a new plan from the next magazine, and so on, and so on.  It’s a vicious cycle: try, fail, and try again…until you give up.

”The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.”  Well that is us . . . insane weight loss addicts hooked on trying anything that promises results, and most of us never understand why.  It’s because we don’t know any better.  To reference Part 1, we are programmed to buy into the plan, not the result.  Weight loss and toning takes time!  Just like gaining the weight and getting out of shape took time.  Repairing the damage involves adjustments.  Your body has to go through physical changes week by week.  If a overnight changes were actually possible we wouldn’t have so much industry dedicated to empty promises of a quick fix.  There wouldn’t be any money in it for the big names if one shot was all it took.  Programming tells us to buy.  Programming tells us to believe it will work.  We never think “What am I doing?  What makes this better than any other program out there?”  

“Lose ten pound in ten days!”  “Get six pack abs in 6 weeks!”  “Never diet again!”  It all sounds the wonderful, and it all sounds the same.  People, if I can change the way you think about why you ‘can’t’ lose weight, you will lose weight.  It’s about changing your mind set about what works for you.