Why should I lose weight?

1. I want to be able to cross my leg
2. I want to be able to sit in the booth in the restaurant
3. I want to be able to bend down
4. I want to be able to reach my back
5. I want to be able to reach my legs down and tie my shoes
6. I want to be able to do my little chores as others do without being help
7. I want to be able to get up easy and reach places
8. I want to feel comfortable in the chair I am going to sit on
9. I want to feel comfortable and confident at what others are going to think about me
10. I want to be able enter and exit at the entrances and exits without being embarrassed
11. I want to feel light to carry my body
12. I want to go multiple places without restriction.
13. I want to play with my kids
14. I want to be healthy
15. I want to take less medications for my medical problems
16. I want to relieve my aching joints
17. I want to relieve my constant feet pain
18. I want to relieve my sleep apnea
19. I want to get better with my blood pressure, my cholesterol and my blood sugar
20. I want to cut the chain of more and more medication in my list and gaining more and more weight.
21. I want to feel better with myself, my life, my future, my health.

How am I going to encounter the barriers to losing weight?

Time

Life is always busy with the tasks and schedules. We have to prioritize the tasks and keep losing weight is the most important task to accomplish.

*Tell your family that you are planning to lose 10 pounds in 1 month and ask help and support to keep your goal in check.

Money

There is some cost to losing weight, either to join a program, to buy an equipment or to buy healthier meals. It can be costly.

Again prioritize. Cut back on the buying non essential items but do not cut back on the weight reduction efforts. The delay in losing weight is more costly in the long run. As you lose weight you will soon realize that you can cut back on the medications, MD visits, sick days and loss of income, etc and save a lot more money than you put in initially.

I see a lot of patients in consultation who do not pursue weight loss nor stop smoking because insurance companies do not pay for the cigarettes smoking cessation medications and weight loss plans. So they continue to spend money on buying cigarettes and stay unchanged in unhealthy habits for losing weight.

* Here is the key “losing weight and adopting a healthy habit is for our own health”. Yes, it will be nice if we have coverage for the wellness coverage and being paid for.

But if you do not have benefit coverage, you should have alternative plan to pursue your goals, which may include to work extra shifts for the cost, or cutting back on other non essential buys. Remember by losing weight and stopping smoking you willactually save a lot more money.

Knowledge

Knowledge is power. Look for the true fact and correct information about the weight loss and right weight loss program. Do not rely on the information that you receive from the advertisements of any sort. The advertisements mainly serve the purpose of selling merchandise.

Do not look for a quick fix. There is no quick and easy way of losing weight. You will have to go through with the diet, exercise, adopting right habits and medications (diet pills) if you can safely take them. This is the only right way of losing weight other than bariatric surgery.

Determination

Once you determine to lose weight, keep the goal alive till you achieve it. Do not lose sight on the goal. There will be festivals, parties, life stresses, falling out of plan, difficulties and all the excuses either reasonable or not, around you. But you will keep your two eyes on the goal. You will continue on with your efforts.

Get family supports, friend supports. Think and reward your self with non food item for your achievements. If you have short comings, you will correct them positively.

Action

When time comes for the action, I do not have words for it.

ACT NOW!