QuestionDo you believe in such things as losing weight while staying realistic. What does it mean? This advice is everywhere but what one's supposed to do exactly?
AnswerI think these tips by successful weight losers can give you the idea. It's from my article "Weight Loss Tips: About Being Realistic" - so you see, I've been interested in this issue, too!
Rebecca: "My first goal was to lose only 10 pounds. I had very high blood pressure, and my doctor said if I would just lose 10 pounds, he believed that I could get off the pills. Every other doctor before said I had to lose 100 pounds and I thought 'I can't do that.' But 10 pounds, I thought 'maybe I can do that.' Doing it one bite at a time made it more achievable for me ."
Therese Revitt: "Before I go to bed I'd ask myself, 'Is what I did today something I could do for the rest of my life?' If I felt deprived, I'd do it differently tomorrow."
Barbara Miltenberger: "I learn how to eat and live with it for the rest of my life."
Amy Reed: "In 13 years [that I keep off my 80 pounds], I've never gotten down to my initial goal weight, but I'm happy and feel very good even though I didn't reach it."
Debra Mazda: "Thin is whatever you think thin is. Next to Roseanne Barr, I'm thin. Next to Twiggy, I'm fat."
Rebecca: "It took me a year to lose 100 pounds this time. I had lost 100 pounds twice before, in less than six months each time, but I didn't maintain it."
The article is at http://www.dietandbody.com/article1066.html
Hope it helps,
Tanya Zilberter, PhD
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