Lose Weight Programs-3 Steps To A New You

Have you looked at all the lose weight programs on the TV, in magazines and on the internet?Are you sick of all the promises to shed fat, be thinner or look more toned?

I am a cynic plain and simple and so I generally skip over the pretty adverts and just read the news. Until the day I realised that life was not that great, my job sucked, my wife had started talking divorce and the kids, well I was just a money clip to them.

Something had to be done. As I said I am pretty cynical of any advertising, especially lose weight programs and so if I wanted to make a change I was going to do it my way. This is my three step program to get rid of the flab.

Step one; First I had to make the decision. It's all very well thinking about losing weight but just as with everything in life thinking and doing are two completely separate things. I often think about clearing out the garage but it still just a mountain of stuff that gets in the way of whatever it is I'm looking for at any particular time.

Decide that you are going to lose weight. Period. By making that point in your own head you can then prepare to consider how you are going to do it. Cliche that it is, I wanted to go down the diet and exercise route. Weightloss is a numbers game, calories in minus calories out, if the second number is bigger than the first you will lose pounds.

This first step is the most important because without making a full commitment to the goal you will waver and wander and eventually go back to the same old ways. If you keep on doing the same thing you will get the same result. Decide now. I am going to be different.

The second step was finding a lose weight program that actually inspired me. I mean ME, in capital letters because everyone is different, they think differently and respond differently to different things. Weight loss programs are different, one person may be inspired but the next person could be completely underwhelmed.

Find the program that inspires you. The internet is great for discovering all sorts of lose weight programs and there will be one that suits you down to the ground. Find it and then do it. Completely and wholeheartedly, just do it, and once you have started don't be tempted by any other, that will cause you the same grief that you were in before. Clarity breeds serenity.

The third step was a little more problematical, I had a fairly sedentary lifestyle, my main exercise was playing golf on a regular basis. Golf is a time consuming sport and with work and family commitments I really did not want to have to go to a gym or the local health club which would further erode the time I had. On top of that is the cost of membership, which if I didn't go at least three or four times a week would have been prohibitive.

My secret weapon in the battle with the bulge is my motorised treadmill. What a godsend that little beauty is. Set up in the garage I can jump on for forty five minutes every day and just pump that fat away. The real bonus of it is that the whole family can use it, we have little competitions with each other and although it wasn't particularly cheap it saved me money on the gym fees and more importantly it is so convenient so I don't skip my exercise.

So my lose weight program in three steps is make the decision, find a diet program that suits YOU and invest in a treadmill.

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