Design your diet
Diet 4. The Six-Word diet
(Continued from Diets 1 - 3)
Please read them or this may not make sense.
You MUST have walked, to go any further with this.
It does not matter how far. You can still do it.
My two-word diet - Move-more, had not effected radical change in my life. However, it was something that I found I could do. I suppose that, this was the secret. My Moving-more was walking, but I found that the benefit was more than just the exercise. It was pleasant to be outside seeing the natural world. It gave time for thinking. It is as much for these reasons that I strongly advise walking and I'll keep on about it to try to persuade you to join me. If I had been 'punishing myself' by trying to run or jog a set distance to lose weight, it would not have worked in the same beneficial way that walking does.
Don’t start anything that you can’t keep doing.
If it is too painful, don’t do it.
Walk, don't run if you want to.
You don’t have to run a marathon to lose weight. You don’t need a personal trainer to tell you what to do; you know what to do. It’s just a matter of you doing it. If you are overweight, you have to admit that you are not comfortable being fat. You can say FAT. You have to recognise that you can find lots of excuses for not doing something about being fat - BUT -
It is only you, talking to yourself.
The hardest six-months work that I ever did was to stop smoking. That was tough, because I liked smoking. Liked the flavour, liked the activity, liked the camaraderie and the inclusiveness within the group, but I came to know that it wasn’t doing me much good and the truth about the harm was being revealed by science. There were easy excuses for carrying on smoking. It settles my tummy; it calms my nerves. No, it doesn’t. That shaking feeling isn’t nerves, it’s the addiction to the weed. To stop smoking you need will power and to lose weight you will need it more than ever. You like food. You like eating, just as I liked smoking. Actually, when you think about it, Will Power, is all you need. The four-word diet Move more – Eat less, should be a six-word diet.
Move More - Eat Less - Will Power
To find Will Power you have to look inside yourself.
You can’t buy it or borrow it.
To follow any diet, you have to want to do it, for yourself. You DO want to do it otherwise you wouldn't be reading this. There are many reasons for not managing your diet, but there are just as many good reasons for you to manage your diet. As you get older the reasons to manage your diet become more important, especially when weight begins to affect your health. At that point, as I found with my sciatica, you have the added encouragement to make some changes. No doctor said ‘Type 2 diabetes!’ to me, but struggling to put my socks on could lead to that.
Why wait?
Walking.
Moving-more made a start for me.
It can make a start for YOU.
You MUST walk.
Now it is time to look at the tough one
Eat Less.
'The Time has Come.'
You MUST walk-
To the front door.
To the gate and back.
To the first tree and back.
If you don’t walk somewhere, don’t read any more of this.
You have given up before you even started.
Make the effort.
Or Be Fat
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