What is a shortcut to weight loss?
When you notice one of your girlfriends is
losing weight or looking physically fit in some other way, there is always one question you always ask her, “How did you do it?”. Something in our psyche tries to convince us that this gal discovered some easy and quick way to great health and vitality that maybe she will share with us.
The idea that there is
a shortcut to weight loss and good health is certainly what drives the multi billion dollar
weight loss chemical industry. How many commercials have you seen for shortcut
weight loss programs that promise you don’t have to
exercise or change a thing about how you eat and the weight will just melt off?
Isn’t amazing we ever believe these pitches? As women, we pride ourselves on being the thinkers of the genders. And yet we are the ones most prone to buy into that marketing pitch that they found some magic chemical in the jungles of Bolivia that will make us skinny without any change to our lifestyles.
Women’s health is too important to experiment with by buying snake oil treatments that just won’t work and may make you sick in trying to find a shortcut to a healthier you. But there is a shortcut to outstanding women’s health if we will put the same investment of time and giving it priority in our lives that those expensive diet pill people demand from our budget.
But the shortcut to great health hides in the things we are tying to run away from. The shortcut to vibrant women’s health is
diet and exercise. The reasons this is a “shortcut” is that if you get up tomorrow morning and put into effect a new lifestyle of healthy diet and moderate but routine exercise, you will
start losing weight within a few weeks. Then if you are devoted to the program, keep cooking and eating right and keep bringing your heart rate up each day with regular and ambitious exercise, you will keep
losing weight week after week until you hit your goal weight.
The snake oil treatments say you can lose 20 pounds in a month. You can lose 4 pounds in that same month with a well-designed program of diet and exercise and it will be 4 pounds that stay off. This is the other secret of this “shortcut” to great health for women. A shortcut is no shortcut if you have to keep going back and going through it over and over again for the same results. You might lose a few pounds with chemicals of some magic program. But because those programs don’t change your lifestyle, you will be going back over and over losing the same weight each year, maybe for decades. This is no shortcut, its torture for you to see that weight come right back on only for you to try a new magic diet program the next year.
Give yourself a challenge to try
a program of great diet and
exercise for six months. Work with your doctor and people you know who know their stuff about nutritional eating and you will find you can train your stomach to enjoy the foods you are giving it and you will stay full all the time.
Then as the pounds melt off, notice how they don’t come back. You can reach a goal weight, stay there and then start a new program and eventually get to that dress size you were at in college. And with this shortcut
diet program, you will stay there. And that is a shortcut worth investing in.