| Weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint. If you sprint during a marathon you’ll never finish, you must pace yourself. Like the Aesop’s fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. The tortoise plods along slowly one step at a time, but the hare knows he can beat the tortoise so he takes a nap. The tortoise wins the race. If you are slow and steady the battle of weight loss can be won. Weight loss is achieved by going slow. Any diet with unreasonable weight loss with 10 pounds in 7 days is unrealistic. If you try to go too fast you’ll be hungry, tired or in pain from over-exercising. If you lose weight too fast, your body will think it’s starving and slows your metabolism. Keep your weight loss to one pound a week. In one year you can lose 50 pounds and 200 pounds in four years. I sometimes like to call it the “Goldilocks method.” Not too slow, not too fast, just right. Just don’t be a rabbit. |