Do You Sabotage Your Weight Loss?

How many of you have the greatest intentions of doing a weight loss campaign and end up being your own worst enemy when it comes to following through?¬† You start out great by looking at the amount of food you consume and immediately reduce it.¬† You’re following the fewer calories in method so that your current weight has to be reduced.¬† The body has to become smaller since the calories needed are now less than before.¬† To make up for the reduction the body now turns to stored fat thereby making less of you to carry around.

Initially you may lose some weight right away.¬† It’s not uncommon for someone to lose 5 to 10 pounds the first week since your body adjusts very quickly to the loss of input.¬† You know that this happened to you before when you had a cold or flu and didn’t eat.¬† After a week of lying around in a sick bed you weigh less since you put yourself through the fewer calories in process.

Once you got the bump of the initial weight off you feel good about yourself and now think to yourself “if I can reduce weigh simply by reducing the amount of food I cram into my face, what will happen if I burn more than just sitting with a TV clicker in my hand”?¬† Right away you now get motivated to do an exercise routine to go along with the reduction of food.¬† Doing an aerobic exercise is one of the quickest methods to jump starting the weight loss.¬† Building a good sweat and getting the body to do work like it never did before will allow calories to be burned.¬† You’re now on the fast track to improving your overall appearance along with your well being.

 BUT, what happens next? As your body weight goes down, the clothes you own fit a lot looser than before.  You find that your face and neck seem to be thinner.  You may start to get complements on how much better you look than when you were heavier.  Things are good now.  You even feel fitter and have more energy.  What could possibly want to make you change from this position? 

This is the $64,000 question (a reference to an old television quiz show) on why people tend to screw up their accomplishment.¬† It may start out harmlessly at first when say you go to a party and someone brought a cheesecake.¬† This is one of those 900 calorie tiny slices of cheesecake that is on your dangerous list.¬† It’s loaded with strawberries in a thick fruit base and topped with a huge dollop of whipped cream.¬† You look at your new physique and feel that you can do this and chomp right in.¬† The next day you feel guilty and dread the moment when you step on the scale.¬† One look and the weight is the same as the day before.¬† This is where the sabotage sets in.

The one time over indulgence and finding that the weight didn’t come back loops you into a false sense of security.¬† By reducing the amount of food and hitting the exercise routine you now feel you have the ability to go out and eat all the foods you used to eat without a worry.¬† That cheesecake wasn’t a big deal, but it leads to other little transgressions.¬† The calculations are already turning in your head.¬† One candy bar at the checkout counter couldn’t hurt since you did a 900 calorie slice of the cheesecake with gaining.¬† Then I won’t work out today since I didn’t gain weight by the extras so I must be maintaining creeps into your mind.¬† The one time missed turns into two or three times a week missed now.¬† The helpings get a little bit larger at the dinner table, because you know how to beat this.¬† So what if the clothes are a little snugger, you can always get back to the svelte you.

What happened here is that you bargained yourself right back to overweight land.  You forgot how much sacrifice you needed to do in order to drop the weight in the first place.  The workouts were hard in the beginning. You are now fooling yourself by doing the same habits that got you to the size you were in the first place is foolish.

I’m not sure why the mind plays it this way on many many people, but it sure has become the norm.¬† You see over 80% of those that have a dramatic weight loss of 50 pounds or more will put the weight back on.¬† If someone says that don’t know why the weight keeps coming back, they are too embarrassed to tell you that they sabotaged this.¬† Think about the process.¬† It takes a great amount of self control and diligence to pull this off and keep it off.¬† Tomorrow I’ll post how to get beyond that period where you do sabotage and give some tips on how to save you from yourself.

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