Instant Weight Loss – Give Up One Thing Everybody Does to Get It

Everybody:

• Drinks soda
• Eats out
• Eats sugar
• Drinks juice
• Spends too much time in front of a screen (TV or computer)
• Knows they should exercise, but hates it
• Eats fast food
• Eats white bread
• Plans to diet – someday
• Knows being overweight isn't healthy

Stop doing what everybody does, if you don't want to be as overweight as most people are. Think about it. How many things do you do, just because everyone else does them? Do you drink soda or lattes because you like them or because it's what all your friends do? Do you eat dessert every day because you think it's a good thing to do, or because it's what most people do?

What would happen if you gave up drinking juice or eating fast food? Weight loss, that's what would happen. If you've been eating out at fast food restaurants, and you start bringing a healthy lunch to work instead, you'll start to lose weight, almost instantly. If you stop eating white bread and make your sandwiches with low-calorie, low-carb pita bread and less mayonnaise, you'll lose weight.

You don't have to live on sprouts and water, although water is certainly much healthier than soda or juice, because it hydrates you without adding calories. But you can eat healthy weight loss meals and still be satisfied and lose pounds. You don't have to starve, just change a few of the things that "everybody" does.

Be more independent and watch the pounds drop off. Walk instead of driving, even though everyone else in your office drives to work. Ride a bike if you feel like it or take the bus and get off at a stop a little way from your job site and walk the rest of the way.

It might be easier to start by just changing one thing on the this list, instead of trying to change radically all at once. How about switching to decaf green tea instead of soda? That's a double plus, because it hydrates you, cuts calories and has antioxidants and phenols that boost your immune system and health.  Don't like tea?  How about flavored seltzer?

If you brainstorm, I'm sure you can find ways to change for the better, one little thing at a time, and that's how you end up with permanent weight loss. Don't think about what you're giving up, think about what you're gaining. If you work on each list item, within a few months, you'll have lost pounds and gained some healthy new habits.