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For the first time in my life I have lost weight. I had been trying to lose weight for years and had tried every diet under the sun. I tried Atkins, which was great till I ate a bowl of cereal.  I tried so many different diets that I sort of went through a sort of numb period.  I sort of gave up and my weight hit a whopping 297 pounds and that is when something had to give.  I grew tired of hiding behind all of my clothes and despite the fact my husband said I looked fine, I did not feel fine.  When I almost hit 300 pounds I decided to throw away all of the weight loss nonsense and knew I had to lose weight naturally.

Most websites will tell you there is some magic pill or some simple 12 minute exercise that you could do just 3 times a week…but we know better and we know that none of that is true.  I received my inspiration for natural weight loss by watching The Biggest Loser.  It was on that show that I realized that it was all about calories in, and calories out.  I even received that thing they wear on their arm in The Biggest Loser, which is called The BodyBugg. I have written over 50 articles about The BodyBugg (Click here to see the articles) and it is the greatest thing ever invented for weight loss.  I am not going to write about why, because i am tired of writing about that thing the players wear on The Biggest Loser.  What I do want to discuss is how my weight loss is all attributed to natural weight loss techniques.  I have listed the three not so easy steps below.

• Get enough sleep- Most people do not realize how important getting a good night sleep is to a person trying to lose weight.  Without a decent night of sleep your body just does not perform as well as it should because it just isn’t.  When you are tired you have less “ooommmmfffff” to get out and exercise.  Let desire to spend the time preparing healthy foods and when you are tired you just have less will power to resist all of the goodies that end up in front of your mouth.  If sleeping isn’t a natural way to lose weight…..what is?
• Exercise- When I first started to lose weight going to the health club or taking a long walk was a horrible thing to do.  I hated going, I hated being there and I could not wait until it was time to leave.  Exercise and me was a four letter word.  Somewhere along the way I stopped exercising to lose eight and just started to do it because I realized that it was something that was just overall healthy for me. I no longer go to the health club to lose weight, I go to just help myself be healthy.  My stress is lower, my cholesterol levels plummeted and I am no longer in line to ever have Type – II diabetes.  Exercise is as natural as a person can get when looking for natural weight loss.
• Eat better- Notice I said eat better, I did not say eat like a rabbit.  When I first started my weigh loss journey in the world of dieting, I thought it was all about salad and other forms of rabbit food.  I tried to eat what I thought to be healthy but after just a few weeks I grew bored and gave up.  After each and every weight loss attempt I went right back to the behaviour that got me fat in the first place.  I have learned that the best way to lose weight naturally is well…..to eat.  I have since learned that to lose weight naturally I need to just make beater choices.  I committed myself to understanding why smaller meals every 4 hours was better.  I learned about the power of protein in defeating hunger.  I learned how bad even diet soda is for a person.  I have learned that I never drink my calories.  This subject is too broad so lets just say I educated myself and now I am in a lifetime course because the true weight loss never really ends, it becomes a way of life.

I have learned that losing weight is not rocket science and the best way to lose weight is the natural way.  I try not to lose no more than 1.5 to 2 pounds a week because I have learned that it is a much more natural amount to lose every week.  The small numbers still add up over time and by losing it slowly, it takes longer for me to put it back on if I have a bad day.  My only negative thing I have to say about my natural method of weight loss is that I never did anything to stop all of the skin from sagging.  I did not do anything about all of the nasty cellulite and now although I am thinner, I do not like what I see.  Although the view is not as bad as being obese. I just wish I prepared myself better for the physical aspect of losing weight.  But then I guess that is a matter for another article and it is tired and I think I am going to call it a night. 

In closing, weight loss is not impossible and it can happen.  Once you get your mind on track you will look back and wonder why you made such a big thing about it at all.  Weight loss is something you can do and if you pay attention you will be able to achieve natural weight loss also.  Weight loss is not only possible, it can start right here and right now. You just have to make the first step and our mind will allow your body to do the rest.  All ideas began in the imagination and if you can imagine yourself thin, you will soon learn that you can lose the weight and start your own weight loss journey. 

Good Luck and God Bless! 

The holidays are here again and you fell off the diet wagon again. Now you are looking for a way to get back on that diet wagon and really get serious about losing some weight. The first thing that you have to do is to stop beating yourself up over having a binge fest over the holidays. You cannot change one thing that you did or ate in the last few days. You can’t change the past, you can only move on and try to be better in the future. The 100 pound question is “what exactly is better?” If “better” for you is to lose weight that is great, but how long have you been doing this “better” thing?

If you have had trouble trying to diet and lose those pounds then let’s stop for a moment from beating ourselves up over trying to be “better.” We are what we are and if we desire to lose weight we have to stop thinking we live on a ranch somewhere secluded away from work, life and food. We need to look at what is in our life and learn to deal with what we have. If you have a hectic work schedule then you need to stop trying to lose weight around your work schedule. If you know you have to work late, then get up earlier to exercise which may mean you have to go to bed earlier. If you can’t find a healthy place to eat lunch, than start planning on bringing a healthy lunch. If you are using your schedule as an excuse from losing weight then you are really just making excuses.

If you do not have the ability to go to a gym during the day then buy a piece of equipment and stick it in your home. If you do not have the money to buy equipment then just get a pair of sneakers and go for a walk. If you are having a hard time losing weight then the answer may not be just another failed diet, maybe the answer is just a lack of motivation and mediocrity. If you really want to lose weight, and have no medical condition, the only one stopping you from losing weight is yourself.

Whew!!! Those were some pretty extreme words that were just spoken and it is hoped that your feelings were not hurt, but the truth remains that if you want to lose weight then you and only you can make it happen. You are not on some game show and you really are only in competition with yourself. You need to take a moment and reflect on what it is you really want out of the goal of weight loss. You need to stop accepting failure and stop expecting more than can be delivered.

As you move forward from this moment in time it is expected for you to stop beating yourself up and start to accept the need for self love. You need to stop being so filled with a lack of self tolerance and start to think about what will work for your own individual weight loss. You do not need to be in a rush and just because you want to lose weight does not make it an all or nothing. Set a goal for 1.5 pounds of weight loss a week. That is a doable goal and one that can be easily achieved and tracked with the use of FitDay, which is a wonderful weight loss program for your computer. Setting an achievable and measureable goal is better than just saying you will lose some weight.

As this holiday season starts and ends accept yourself for what you are and if you desire better, then you possess the power to make yourself better. Do not get side tracked by poor goals or with perceived competition with your girlfriends. Use your friends as tools that when used properly can help the situation. With the goal of a pound or two a week, and tracking that goal, you will be able to build that needed motivation for a successful weight loss journey.

Weight loss is not a destination; it is a journey that will take the rest of your adult life. By embracing your failures you can improve your future. By pushing aside defeat you can create and maintain motivation. By accepting your shortcomings and holiday binges then you are on the right road for reality in weight loss. In that reality you will have up days and down days but as long as you have another day you are still in the game. Hang in there, realize you are human. Accept the fact the only competition is yourself and unless you can embrace that competition you may never reach your goals.


You can achieve weight loss if only you were to accept the fact that you are human and that a diet is not an all or nothing event. When you reach that day of your ideal weight you will realize that it had to be a life style change to make it happen. Once you achieve that weight loss you will realize that to prevent weight gain you need to continue your “diet”. At that point your “diet” had better be a lifestyle because most people cannot live on a diet for the rest of their forever. Most people who lose the weight and keep it off are those who made fundamental changes in their behavior and now to keep that weight off they need to keep going to maintain that weight. To maintain that lower weight you better be living in such a way that you will be happy. If you are not happy with how you LOST the weight you will slip and that slip will cause you to gain all the weight back again.

Skip the diet, stop beating yourself up, make reasonable goals for your weight loss, stop being in competition with your neighbor, friend and especially yourself. If you want to lose weight make the change, love yourself for yourself and stop looking at the calendar. Weight loss will happen when you make it happen and you will not make it happen until you are really ready to make it happen.

All too often people start a “diet” and lose a few pounds and then for one reason or another just give up. Have you ever tried to lose weight and were zipping along on your weight loss journey and ended up gaining more weight than you had on your hips before you tried to lose the weight? I want you to think about you thought process that you had from the moment of motivation to the moment of failure realized.

Does this sound familiar?

You have been gaining a few pounds for the last few years and have tried to lose weight. You have made a few attempts before you decided to get really serious about the weight loss. You debated it in your head over and over and resolved to lose the wight once and for all. You decided that this was going to be your weight loss expedition that took you all the way to the beach in that cute bathing suit. You were now ready to make it happen but then realized that this was the 8th or 9th time you have made this decision. So here you sit, at your computer to ready to lose the weight but this time in the back of your mind you are beginning to doubt your ability to actually shed the extra weight. You are beginning to think that you are never, ever going to be that slim person you always desired yourself to be.

The thought process described above is one that will lead you to failure more often than it will lead you to success. You will never be able to take your body where the mind will not go. The mind is always on, it is always active and it is always in charge of your direction in life. What you need to be able to do is start to think positive about yourself and that you have the ability to lose 20 pounds or to lose 100 pounds. You have to put your mind into the direction you want your body to go. You have to stop approaching your “diet” as if you failed it before you started. You must begin to believe that you do have the ability to overcome the stumbling blocks you always tripped over in earlier attempts at weight loss. You need to start allowing yourself to believe in your ability and approach your eating habits with the belief that losing weight is not only possible but probable. You need to be able to transform yourself at the very core of yourself which is not in your belly, but in your mind. To do this you should look for a good support group that understands what you are experiencing. You really need the support to not only cheer you on but be there to help you gain the knowledge that will make the choices you need to make easier to figure out. A good support group will not only teach you facts about weight loss but will also help you re-think how you look at yourself. With the proper knowledge, combined with support you will be able to break out of the belief that “you” can’t lose weight no matter what you try to do.

So right here and right now you need to stop allowing negative thoughts permeate your thinking and start to fill the brain up with the belief that you can do it. If you believe you will not eat that chocolate you will will be able to resist it. (Most of the time) If you believe you can do a bit more exercise than you will do the exercise you have dreaded. Actually, after a few sessions of exercise you will even begin to enjoy the benefits of a workout.

In closing, take your mind out reverse and start to assume that you can lose weight and that it IS possible. Once you get your mind in the process that it can be done the body will fall in line with your desires. Get your mind right and your body will be okay too.

Losing weight has been one of the hardest battles I have ever attempted to win. There are some days that go great and then there are those days that just make me want to give up and accept that I am going to remain a fat person. What I have learned in the frontlines of the weight loss battle that it is a life long endeavor. I have learned that a person needs more than just a spark of motivation. A person needs to have sustained motivation.

All too often when a person attempts to lose 20 pounds or 100 pounds there comes a point where you wonder if you are ever going to reach the finish line. The problem all too often is that we equate losing weight to starting a “diet”. The fallacy of that premise is that a “diet” is not what it takes to lose the weight and achieve a healthy life style and therein lies the problem. All too often people get it backwards. They start a “diet” so the will be able to lose weight and become healthy. What a person does not realize is that if it is a “diet” there is a start date and an end date. The start date becomes the day you decide to “diet” and the end date is when you achieve that magical weight. The flaw to this theory is that which happens when (and if) you lose the weight. Is your “diet” over? Do you then go back to your old habits?

The correct and the more sustainable method to lose weight is by starting a healthy lifestyle which will set the weight loss into motion. Once you start eating healthier foods and exercising and sleeping better hours your weight will kind of just go away. By starting a healthy lifestyle there is no end date just a new healthy you that will be thinner.

So the simplest advice is that you skip the diet and start a “live-it”. By not starting a diet and simply eating better foods you will have changed your diet and that change alone will lead you into a new and healthier and thinner you to enjoy the rest of your own personnel forever.

We here at Thin Blog really have gotten smart on this weight loss thing over the years and alot of that knowledge is due to the attitude of Jillian Michaelsand the great television show The Biggest Loser that she is on weekly.  We have seen diets come and go and we have seen those same diets fail and succeed.  We could sit here and tell you that this diet will work and that diet will not work while the truth of the matter really is what are your needs and are you really ready for whatever diet you are about to embark upon.

Jillian Michaels comes across as the tough Drill Instructor type, but at heart we suspect that she really is one big ball of love. We know that she is just as interested with the root cause of why a person is overweight, as to how much they eat.  We see her week after week concentrate on the root cause of why a person is fat in the first place; we see her dig deep for the emotional cause of their obesity.  She has spoken about how if a person does not want to dig deep into the reason for their obesity then no matter how many pounds they lose, they will just gain it all back again at a later date.  A prime example of this among many people is the Atkins Diet.  We have seen so many people lose weight with this diet and then gain it all back again.  The truth of the matter is that they may have lost the weight but they did not resolve the issues behind their obesity.  Without coming to grips with the core reason, losing weight is really just a moot point that will only dance behind the scenes and in the shadow of your flab.

Another example of this is all those who seek the magic bullet of weight loss through gastric bypass surgery.  Millions of people have gone into a hospital and have had a portion of their stomach pouch removed and then lose 100 or more pounds.  They lose all this weight and then when their life returns to normal they start to eat too much food again.  Too many of those millions have to return back to the hospital and have another procedure to remove even more stomach pouch because they stretched it all out again.  They did not deal with the issues behind their obesity and did not really solve anything for the long term.

Okay, so there you sit and you are overweight and are tired of it.  We are all tired of this belly that hangs.  It looms over our life as if it is the grim reaper just waiting to claim us as the next obesity victim.  The question you should not be asking is what diet to go on and try to lose the weight.  The reason why you should not be asking what diet is because they will all pretty much help you lose the weight.  Atkins works, NutriSystem works, Sensa works, eDiets works and the list just goes on and on and on.  The real question you need to ask is what it will take for that diet to work for ME for the rest of MY life. 

When you go on a diet it can’t be something that has a start date and an end date because when it is over and you lost all your weight….what then?  Do you gain it all back again?  Do you go back to slamming beer and smoking pot and eating munchies past 1 AM?  Do you return to the lifestyle that got you fat in the first place?  Dr. Wayne Dyer said it best…He said that if you are obese and can’t get a diet to work it is merely because you are not ready to make it work.  If you were ready to lose weight then you would make it happen. If you had all of your issues under control then you would be able to drop those pounds as if they were butter in a hot pan.   Wayne Dyer has shown so many people that You Can Heal Your Life.

Before you dive into that next diet you better dig deep.  You need to cut away all of the B.S. and cut where it hurts to discover what is holding you back.  Are you lonely?  Are you crying inside because you do not have the love of your life that you can cuddle with at night?  Are you afraid to lose weight?  Have you always been overweight and use it as a shield to hide your emotions?  Are you afraid of being the person you know that resides within?  What is in you that is holding you back?

Tune into the frequency that will help you become the person that you really want to be.  A great place to start is with Hay House where they help you discover yourself so you can be happy with yourself.  Learn to deal with the inner demons and you will be surprised to discover there are no demons at all.  You will be shocked to see that you are just a normal person.  Learn more about yourself and then make the choice to be healthy and then you will discover that your health is really only one decision away.

Good Luck and God Bless, life really can be great, you just have to nurse it along!!!